Lisa Wiegand
| Lisa Wiegand | |
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| Born |
Lisa Marie Wiegand 1968 Royal Oak, Michigan, USA |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
Lisa Wiegand (born 1968) is an American cinematographer.
Biography
Lisa Marie Wiegand was born in 1968 in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.[1] She graduated in 1989 from Wayne State University, and obtained her MFA in cinematography from UCLA in 1998. In 1995, she received a Master's in Cinematography from the American Film Institute AFI.[1]
In 1997, she attended the Színház-es Filmmûvészeti Foiskola (Academy of Drama and Film, Faculty of Film and Television) in Budapest, Hungary, and UCLA in 1998.
Wiegand started in taking stills and developing them in her father's darkroom as a child. She switched to motion capture when she started shooting local cable TV ads. She went on to direct multi-camera shoots on commercials and industrial films while working at Detroit’s Midwest Video.[1]
"Wiegand has been featured, several times, in American Cinematographer Magazine and has been awarded for 'Excellence in Cinematography' by the American Society of Cinematographers."[2]
Wiegand taught cinematography at The American Film Institute, UCLA, and Loyola Marymount University for several years. She also volunteers her skills to the Sundance Institute's Filmmaker's Labs.
2010 she worked on Dollhouse (film), The Assignment, and Mayfly.
Awards
- 1998 won the ASC Karl Struss Heritage Award at the American Society of Cinematographers, USA
- 1999 won the ASC UCLA FF Award at the American Society of Cinematographers, USA for Jornada del Muerto.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Assignment | ||
| 2009 | Mayfly | ||
| Dollhouse | |||
| Sundance Directors Lab | |||
| 2008 | My Suicide | ||
| Jennie Tran (Not Her Real Name) | |||
| Night Life | Television | ||
| Cornelius | |||
| Adventures of Power | |||
| 2007 | Ode to Lost Love | ||
| Lez Be Friends | |||
| Casting Pearls | |||
| A Little Night Fright | |||
| Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade | |||
| 2006 | Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds | aka Eating Out 2: Different Rocks (USA: DVD box title) | |
| 2005 | The Bulls | ||
| Little Athens | |||
| Barbara Jean | |||
| 2004 | Good Thing | ||
| Porno Valley | TV series | unknown episodes | |
| Cherry Bomb | |||
| 2003 | Seventy | ||
| Totally Sexy Loser | |||
| Storyline Online | Television 3 episodes | "Dad, Are You the Toothfairy?"; "The Polar Express"; "When Pigasso Met Mootise" | |
| Scrambled | |||
| 2002 | Roberta Loved | ||
| Outta Time | aka Out of Time (Europe) & The Courier | ||
| 2001 | Fish in a Barrel | ||
| 2000 | Odessa | ||
| Dean Quixote | |||
| 1999 | Boy Next Door | ||
| Eastside | |||
| Ugly People in LA | |||
| 1997 | Shopping for Fangs |
References
External links
- Lisa Wiegand at the Internet Movie Database
- Lisa Wiegand website.
- "DP Lisa Wiegand Speaks to WIFC", Women in Film Chicago, September 27, 2012.
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