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Yesterday Was a Lie is featured on Apple’s trailer site! That means it has potentially had more views today than all the views it has had since it was released.

I’m glad black & white cinematography is becoming more and more accepted. It should be available to filmmakers at every budget level as a creative choice, just as it has been in the past. In fact, the only other piece I’ve had featured on Apple was also B&W. I could go my whole career shooting black and white exclusively. Directors/producers, contact me if you have an upcoming black & white project!

I won Best Cinematography at VisionFest’08 in New York, for Yesterday Was a Lie! This is my first cinematography award, and it’s a great feeling. Hopefully many more to come. The trophy statuette is shaped like a candle flame, which I like, because I love to use natural light sources, like candles.

Yesterday Was a Lie recently won the top prize at the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival, and recently screened at the SSG screening series in Beverly Hills, at the Fine Arts Theater. Here’s a shot of the marquee.

Last year I shot a black and white noir film called Yesterday Was a Lie. It is in post, and I feel honored to have been given the chance to shoot a feature project in black and white. For a cinematographer, that is a rite of passage. Here’s a link to the treatrical trailer. I highly recommend viewing it natively in HD if you have the horsepower.

More stills from Yesterday Was a Lie. These are Chase Masterson and Peter Mayhew.