Russell Calkins

 

Experience


Freelance Film/Video Crew – ’04-present:


Credit list includes more than 50 short and feature films as a Director, Director of Photography, Gaffer or Grip.


Credit highlights


Director/Writer -

  1. -Eleanor - Narrative Short, HD Video, 2011 - Senior Seminar in Directing,   Columbia University

  2. -The Dime - Narrative Short, HD Video, 2010 - Lab in Fiction Filmmaking, Columbia University

  3. -Obvious Puns Aside - Narrative Short, S16mm, 2006


1st AD -

  1. -Walter Ate a Peanut - Narrative Short - Dir. Robin Willis, 2009 Official Selection Cannes Film Festival


Director of Photography -

  1. -Marriageability - Narrative Short, HD Video.  Dir. Debra Moore.  2010.

  2. -Oregon Governor Kitzhaber’s Archimedes Project, 2007 


Color Correction and Re-edit for PBS Broadcast-

  1. -Finding Normal - HD Documentary Feature. Dir. Brian Lindstrom, 2007


Assistant Editor -

  1. -Verite Documentaries on addiction by Brian Lindstrom, Portland, Oregon 2007-8

  2. -Internal Marketing Profiles for Nike, Portland Oregon 2007


Gaffer -

  1. -The Wind Blows Where it Will - DV Feature.  Dir. Kunal Mehra, 2008




Education


Columbia University: BA Film Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Feb ‘11.

Selected Courses: Script Analysis, Directing I, Fiction Filmmaking Lab, Senior Screenwriting Lab, Senior Seminar in Directing, Film Theory.

Northwest Film Center: Certificate in Film Production, 2006

Harvey Mudd College: Engineering Department, 1997-2000



Teaching


- Instructor, Northwest Film Center, Color Correction and Lighting Design ’08-Present


- Teaching Assistant, Documentary Intensive Workshop, Northwest Film Center, 09/06


- Teaching assistant, 16mm Sync Sound Production, Northwest Film Center, Winter ‘06


- Guest Instructor (basic lighting design and principles) The Art of Film, NWFC ’06-’07.





Software Proficiencies:


  1. -Final Cut Pro

  2. -Apple Color

  3. -Adobe After Effects

  4. -Adobe Photoshop

  5. -Apple Aperture

- Digidesign Pro Tools

- Apple Cinematools

- Microsoft Office



Camera Proficiencies:


- Canon DSLR

- Panasonic HVX, DVX

- Sony PD series

- Arri: S, SR1, SR2, SR3

  1. -Bolex H16 and Rex5 Series

  2. -Super8 (multiple cameras)

  3. -Nikon Still

  4. -Canon Still




Understand all aspects of film/video production, from pre-production, writing, planning and scheduling; production and principal photography; through to post-production, editing, sound design, and color correction.   Particularly skilled in lighting setup and design as well as camera and coverage design. 


me@russellcalkins.com

Los Angeles, CA