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Boyd Estus - Director of Photography
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DP Boyd Estus filming "Houdini" for PBS's award-winning series THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, with AC Jill Tufts and Director Nancy Porter.
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Boyd Estus is a motion picture Director and Director of Photography whose credits include the Academy Award winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor and the Academy Award nominee Eight Minutes to Midnight as well as many Emmy winning television productions.
He is noted for his elegant work in 35mm, Super-16mm and 16mm film, and in video. He has shot and/or directed a wide range of material from feature films to cinema verite documentaries on locations around the world. Mr. Estus has made films for many of the celebrated television series on PBS (e.g., NOVA, Frontline, The American Experience, Eyes on the Prize), the BBC and other overseas broadcasters, commercial television networks (e.g., the long-running Unsolved Mysteries, Discover, Spenser For Hire), the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, leading corporations and independent film producers. He has extensive experience in the production of films dealing with medicine and science and in making these subjects understandable and vivid to a wide audience. Mr. Estus is an innovator in the development of "docu-drama" technique for compelling storytelling.
Feature credits include the recent Good Will Hunting, Foreign Affairs, Kurt Vonnegut's Between Time and Timbuktu, Dawn of Our Nation and the Klezmer music feature A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden. Corporate clients include Merrill Lynch, American Express, Polaroid Corporation, and the Harvard Business School, as well as major pharmaceutical and computer companies and advertising agencies.
In addition to the Academy Awards, Mr. Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo, and many others. His work has been screened at international film festivals.
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Mr. Estus is President and cofounder of Heliotrope Studios Ltd. in the Boston, Massachusetts area, providing production and post-production services and facilities. He was a founding member of the film unit at WGBH-TV in Boston.
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Heliotrope Studios Ltd.
44 Oak Street
Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 USA
(617)964-8181 Fax: (617)964-8030
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