2015

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

ABOUT

Explore the fantastic world of Elizabethan England... in a small town in upstate New York. AMERICAN RENAISSANCE is a rollicking journey to one of the largest renaissance faires in the US, and a portrait of the characters that return year after year.

Program Short
Runtime 0:09
Country United States
Language English

Jarred Alterman is an award winning cinematographer and filmmaker who has worked in documentary, narrative, music and art related projects for over twenty years. He won best cinematography at Tribeca Film Festival for Contemporary Color (dir. Bill & Turner Ross) featuring David Byrne.  He lensed two films that were NY Times critics picks: Bisbee ’17 (dir. Robert Greene) and The Proposal (dir. Jill Magid) and recently lensed two doc series: HBO's Mind Over Murder and Showtimes' Spector. He shot Walled Unwalled, a film and installation by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, which played at New York Film Festival, TIFF and won a Turner Prize at the Tate Modern.  He has worked with Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham Dance Co and regularly shoots for Art:21.

Ryan Scafuro is an American filmmaker and cinematographer currently living in London. His past two films, AMERICAN RENAISSANCE and BENDING STEEL have premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.. Bending Steel was broadcast nationally on DirecTV and distributed digitally by Bond/360, won both the Emerging Cinematic Vision and Audience Awards at the Camden International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award. His cinematography work has screened at Sundance and has won an Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and a Peabody award. On the small screen he has worked as director of photography on THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, and was brought on to lens Samantha Bee’s new late night show FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE.

CREDITS

Director
Ryan Scafuro
Jarred Alterman
Producer
Ryan Scafuro
Editor
Jarred Alterman

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