Who was Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed by Alec Baldwin’s shooting?

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  • The victim was Ukrainian, had a son and had participated in the Sitges Film Festival

The woman which Alec Baldwin he has killed accidentally this Thursday was Halyna Hutchins, 42, cinematographer of the movie she was shooting, Rust. Waiting for the progress research, the first version that has transpired is that the veteran actor would have fired a prop pistol that supposedly belonged to blank and did not know it was loaded.

In addition to the deceased woman, the shots they also wounded the director of the film, Joel Souza, 48, who was transferred to the intensive care unit of the Christus St. Vincent medical center in the vicinity of Santa Fe, in the state of New Mexico (USA).

He grew up on a military base

Hutchins era Ukrainian, grew up in a soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked as investigative reporter in Europe. She graduated from the American Film Institute in 2015 and was selected as one of the Rising Stars of American Cinema of 2019, according to the biography of your website.

His latest Instagram post, two days ago, he shows her under a wide-brimmed hat while riding a horse. “One of the attractions of shooting a western is that you can to go by horse on your day off. “The post has almost 300,000 views.

Documentaries in Europe

I study in the Kiev National University and graduated from international journalism. Early in her career, she worked as an investigative journalist for British documentary productions in Eastern Europe.

Inspired by cinematographers such as Christopher Doyle y Sergey Urusevskiy, decided to focus on film production and moved to Los Angeles, working first as a assistant in productions while also rolling short films.

Reputed cinematographer

On the recommendation of the Emmy-winning cinematographer Robert Primes, entered the Conservatory of American Film Institute, the institute’s MFA film program, in 2013 and he graduated Two years later. Your thesis project Hidden, a collaboration with classmate Farzad Ostovarzadeh, was screened at Camerimage, the European festival dedicated to photography.

In 2018, she was one of the eight female cinematographers selected for the 21.º DP Lab inaugural de la Fox, and a year later it was selected as one of the rising stars from American Cinematographer magazine.

Participant in Sitges

With Adam Egypt Mortimer, he lit up the indie superhero mystery movie ‘Archenemy’, released in 2020 by SpecterVision and Voltage. Starring Joe Manganiello, the film was released at Beyond Fest 2020 and it was in official competition at the Sitges International Film Festival, receiving a nomination for best film.

In a November Twitter thread, Mortimer he referred to his technical skills, writing, “Halyna Hutchins, the PD of ARQUEenemic, has a bright mind for light and texture. Her tastes and sensibilities of what is cinematographic were a great asset to execute our style, the sad but beautiful feeling that I called “romantic guerrilla”.

A year earlier, in 2019, I had been to Sitges. He visited the Festival to present the horror film ‘Darlin”by Pollyanna McIntosh, in which she participated as a cinematographer.

A “wonderful soul”

After the death of writer, director and producer April Wright has paid tribute to him on Facebook. “I’m incredulous,” Wright wrote. “So young, vibrant and talented. Such a wonderful soul”, described the woman to then have a memory for the son and family of Hutchins.

At the moment, the representatives of the director of photography they have made no statements about the death.

Wife and two children

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The other wounded, Joel Souza, lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and two children. His LinkedIn page considers him the “writer / director” of the action film Crown Vic and the comedy Christmas Trade.

A few hours after the incident, Souza has been discharged from the hospital where he was treated after the Baldwin shooting.



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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