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^ Accurate representation of the timeline of my emotions when I heard ‘The Suit’ just won its first award at a film festival 🎥🎬 • • • I was director of photography on this wee short film way back in the distant before-time of 2019 with a great cast & crew. Nice to see it getting some recognition in America! It won the Beatrice Platt Romano Award for Best Film about modern life in Ireland at the 9th Annual Glennfest Film Festival in Downey, CA 🇺🇸 • • • Written, directed and produced by Mark Hamilton | Perchance Films Producer: Astrid Stuart Starring: Dave Elliott, Corey Millar, Rosie McClelland, Larry Cowan, Dearbhaile McKinny DOP: @michaelfoster.tv 1st AC: Carl Quinn 2nd AC: Aron Holden / Emma Noble Gaffer: Andy McCormick / Patrick Hughes Production Design: Owen Black & Megan Britton Makeup: Sophie Hamilton & Matthew McKnight 1st AD: Callum Harrison Sound: Jamie Richardson Animation: Arvid Torres • • • #cinematography #dop #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #shortfilm #setlife #indiefilm #independentfilm #ireland #northernireland #belfast #filmfestival #cinematographer

WRAPPED in the wee hours of this morning after being Director of Photography on this month-long film project for @seamusheaneycentre , produced and directed by Armchair & Rocket 🎥 • • • For this project I shot a series independent poetic, spoken word and musical pieces in London, Dublin & Belfast, culminating last night in an ensemble livestream from the Great Hall at QUB to an audience in the USA. We had the pleasure of filming some literary and musical talents including #CatherineHeaney, #NickLaird, @marian_keyes , @timwheeler1977 and (THE) #GlennPatterson 👏 • • • Thanks to @judesharvin from A&R, @johnny_frazer and Jonny Weston for the help in numerous creative, logistical & technical aspects of production along the way and to all the Queen’s / SHC team; Rachel Brown, Craig Jackson, Helen Carrick, Nathalie Trott, Ian Greer & Julie Garrett who pulled this together and trusted us to make something really different and worthwhile. Hopefully we can share some clips soon! Shot on @ursamini Pro G2 & @aputure.lighting . • • • #cinematography #dop #cameraman #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #cameraoperator #setlife #northernireland #qub #cinematographer #livestream #shortfilm #ireland #ursamini #ursaminiprog2 #aputure #seamusheaney

More TV work I shot being shown tomorrow night, BBC One NI @ 7pm: ’Northern Irish Holidays’, produced & directed by @afromicproductions ☀️📺 🎥 • • • Would not have been able to get all these contributors shot (looking in any way decent) had it not been for the dream team in my camp on location… @georgiabarkerr assisting & @wilsonarcherfilms on second cam. They stepped up to the plate and worked like trojans despite some tricky logistics and crazy days/nights travelling all over the country back in Feb and March this year. Shot on @blackmagicnewsofficial Ursa Mini Pro G2 & Pocket 6K with some dirty wides being shot on the FS5, @zeisscinematography CP2s & @aputure.lighting . • • • #cinematography #dop #cameraman #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #cameraoperator #setlife #northernireland #bbc #cinematographer #documentary #ursamini #ursaminiprog2 #aputure #northernirishholidays #staycation #bbcni #tvshoot #holidays

Jobstart TV ad 📺 🎥 • • • The new TV ad I shot for the Department for Communities ‘Jobstart’ programme is out. Really simple brief this one with just four straight portrait shots, but a fun & super chill shoot as always with the dream team at Armchair & Rocket & posted by @outpostbelfast . • • • #tvad #tvcommercial #cinematography #cameraman #dop #filmmaker #commercialshoot #directorofphotography #filmmaking #jobstart #nidirect #setlife #ursaminiprog2 #northernireland #belfast #postedatoutpost

Start the art 🎨🌾🍺 • • • Got to film the sweet new 8m tall @hophouse13 mural being painted from start to finish at @theboneyardbelfast by the super talented @dannisimpsonart with agency production by @smartsagency . Assisted by @mrfenzart 🎥 • • • #hophouse13 #boneyardbelfast #cinematography #cameraman #dop #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #videoproduction #outdoorbars #beergarden #instawall #mural #muralart #streetart #northernireland #belfast

Welcome to MFTV 🎥 • • • I've been working from home since before it was cool, so I'm buzzing to finally have my own grown-up office just around the corner! @georgiabarkerr on the interior design 👊 • • • #cinematography #dop #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #videoproduction #editing #editor #setlife #northernireland #holywood

Some frames from a documentary short I shot recently for Paper Machines featuring the work going on behind the scenes at @beatcarnival 🎥 • • • Director/producer: Peter Neill Camera assistant: @georgiabarkerr • • • #cinematography #dop #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #setlife #northernireland #belfast #documentary #cinematographer #ursamini #ursaminiprog2 #aputure #aputurelighting #blackmagicdesign #beatcarnival

WRAPPED on 29 shoot days across 10 months for 4 @bbcni TV documentaries featuring 94 contributors and 1,869 miles travelled for @afromicproductions 🎥 • • • NORTHERN IRISH ‘WEDDINGS’ - ‘CHRISTMAS’ - ‘SCHOOL DAYS’ - ‘HOLIDAYS’: This series was shot entirely throughout COVID with interviews conducted via Zoom and was a really challenging but super rewarding project to get my teeth into. The brief was for the majority of the filming to take place in peoples homes, meaning following strict Covid protocols right from the first lockdown last year until the current one, remote camera operating, wireless monitoring/communication and for only one crew member to be on location doing camera, lights & sound (me). Thankfully my amazing girlfriend @georgiabarkerr stepped in to offer help as a general assistant since we live together, with her having had no previous media experience at all. She not only knocked it out of the park straight away and picked everything up really quickly, but subsequently became instrumental in us making our day countless times and is now an MFTV certified CAMERA assistant 💪 For the larger, socially-distanced interview setups on “School Days”, we needed a much bigger lighting rig and extra coverage so drafted in @wilsonarcherfilms as a second cam op & chief problem-solver on set. Will killed it without fail and, again, I couldn’t have done it without him coming on board 👊 Everyone in the remote production team behind the scenes at Afro-Mic were great too and kept us on track throughout; thanks again to them and a special thanks to Edel O’Mahony who provided counselling through various technical and logistical nightmares from afar! We got there in the end and I learned a whole heap from being thrown into the deep end of something like this, so thanks to director @emmarosadias for trusting me and throwing me in 😅 • • • #cinematography #bbc #dop #filmmaker #directorofphotography #filmmaking #setlife #northernireland #documentary #cinematographer #ursamini #ursaminiprog2 #blackmagicdesign #bbcni

Casually filming at the gates of hell, apparently. • • • Cool 📸 by @garethghm while filming The Belfast Ensemble at the weekend with @kranky_nilic @thatblokerobin @wilsonarcherfilms @chrisevadp @rai.santosa - swipe for more. • • • #cinematography #cameraoperator #filmmaker #filmmaking #setlife #northernireland #belfast #arts #cinematographer #ursamini #ursaminiprog2 #blackmagicdesign #belfastensemble

‘Rave of Thrones’ - Some edited highlights from the Blizzconline 2021 opening ceremony DJ-production showcase with Kristian Nairn. Producer: Guy Robinson | Coalition Agency DOP: @michaelfoster.tv Additional camera: @wilsonarcherfilms Camera assistant: @georgiabarkerr Hair: Kelly White Makeup: Claire McEvoy