DEFINITION July 2019

FEATURE | FEMALE COLOUR I STS

American Horror Story

Phantom Thread

My House

LAUREN MALI S

JODIE DAVIDSON

SHANNA MAURIZI

Job title: Colourist at The Colonie Location: Chicago, US

A professional colourist, artist and filmmaker in New York, Shanna Maurizi brings nearly two decades of background in photochemical processes and colour theory – as well as an impressive depth of technical expertise – to the colour suite. “I come from a visual art background and so my work as a colourist is informed by an engagement with how images communicate and tell a story,” she explains. “I spent many years in darkrooms, and so I like to build LUTs with different gamma curves, and I use printer lights a lot because they are very intuitive for me. I work primarily in DaVinci Resolve on a Tangent control surface, and use Flanders Scientific for monitoring.” 
Maurizi’s films, videos and artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her most recent film Sunken Treasure won the Art and Science Award at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. She currently teaches in the School of Film and Television at NYU. Job title: Colourist at Dungeon Beach and teacher at NYU School of Film and Television Location: New York, USA Recent work: Sunken Treasure, Viceland’s My House, Weediquette, States of Undress

Job title: Colourist Location: Technicolor, London Recent work: The Souvenir, Rialto, The Space: Theatre of Survival documentary, and Phantom Thread Hailing from Vancouver, Jodie Davidson joined Technicolor, London, in 2009. She worked as DI colourist on the Bafta-nominated 45 Years , on which she collaborated closely with DOP Lol Crawley. Her first DI feature was the Wachowski’s blockbuster Jupiter Ascending , on which she worked with double-Oscar winner John Toll. It was Toll who brought her on to the DI after seeing her work on the dailies. Davidson has worked with some of the biggest names in cinematography, including Emmanuel ‘Chivo’ Lubezki on multi-BAFTA and Oscar winner The Revenant , shot on the brand new (at the time) ARRI Alexa 65. She has also worked with DOPs such as Dion Beebe on Into the Woods , Phedon Papamichael on Snow White and the Huntsman , and most recently Paul Thomas Anderson, director and cinematographer, on Phantom Thread , a beautifully crafted movie shot on 35mm film. Other work includes the Daniel Radcliffe movie Victor Frankenstein , on which she was a dailies colourist.

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, colourist Lauren Malis has emerged as a young talent in the commercial editorial industry, expressing her emotion and artistic background in her style of colour grading. “My love of art developed early on,” she explains. “I was featured in many art gallery shows and continued to practise my craft as I attended DePaul University with a focus on digital cinema and animation. It was at this time that I began to incorporate my formal artistic training into my work.” She is known for her work as a colourist on the short film It Happened Again Last Night , winner of Best Short from the Beverly Hills Film Festival, North Hollywood CineFest and Sutter Creek International Film Festival, as well as numerous commercial campaigns delivered via broadcast and online. Malis is currently employed by Chicago-based creative editorial and post house, The Colonie. The Colonie is an award-winning creative editorial and post-production house with a full-service approach to creating innovative spots and cross-platform content that engages, entertains, informs and moves multiple audiences. The Colonie was established in 2008 and is WBENC and CPUC certified, as well as a member of AICE. Recent work: It Happened Again Last Night, Our Longest Drive, various broadcast and online commercial campaigns

Portfolio: technicolor.com/jodie-davidson

Portfolio: shannamaurizi-color.com

My work as a colourist is informed by an engagement with how images communicate and tell a story

Portfolio: vimeo.com/thelaurenrachel

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