CINEMATOGRAPHERS

LINKS to Societies & Associations of Cinematographers [click on logo]

	ABC - Brazil	Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia/Association of Brazilian Cinematographers Founded in January 2000.
	ACS - Australia	Australian Cinematographers Society The ACS was founded by a group of cinecamera people in Sydney in 1958. Its Articles of Association were finalized in 1960.
	ADF - Argentina	Asociación Argentina de Autores de Fotografía Cinematográfica
	AEC - Spain	Asociación Española de Autores de Obras Fotográficas Cinematográficas Founded in 1992 in Rome.
	AFC - France	Association Française des Directeurs de la Photographie Cinematographique
	AIC - Italy	Associazione Italiana Autori della Fotografia Cinematografica Founded in 1950.
	AIP - Portugal	Associação de Imagem Cinema - Televisão Portuguesa Founded in 1998.
	AMC - Mexico	Sociedad Mexicana de Autores de Fotografía Cinematográfica/Mexican Society of Cinematographers Founded in 1992.
	ASC - USA	American Society of Cinematographers Formed on 21 December 1918 and replacing the Cinema Camera Club [1913, New York] and the Static Club [1913, California]. The official charter was issued on 8 January 1919. Membership was [and is] by invitation only. William S. Hart and Mary Pickford were the first producers to place the letters 'A.S.C.' after the photographer's name in screen credits.
	BSC - Great Britain	British Society of Cinematographers In 1947, Bert Easey, head of the Denham Studio and Pinewood Studio camera departments, put forward the idea of forming a society of British cinematographers. Most of Britain's cameramen were gathered for an industry dinner at the Orchard Hotel in Ruislip. With the approval of the assembled gathering the British Society of Cinematographers Limited, with 55 original members, was born in September 1949.
	BVK - Germany	Bundesverband Kamera/German Society of Cinematographers Before WWII, Guido Seeber founded the 'Club Deutscher Kameramänner'. The CDK was disbanded during the Third Reich, but it was revived in 1950. In 1980, the organization was replaced by the Bundesverband Kamera.
	CSC - Canada	Canadian Society of Cinematographers The CSC was conceived in 1957 in the lobby of a film studio at Woodbine and Danforth in east-end Toronto. The idea for the Society originated with Herbert Alpert. Alpert said it was 'mostly out of pride' that he felt the need to establish a society similar to the American Society of Cinematographers, despite the small size of the film community in Toronto and in Canada in general.
	DFF - Denmark	Dansk Filmfotograf Forbund/Danish Association of Cinematographers Founded in 1954.
	fsf - Sweden	Föreningen Sveriges Filmfotografer/Swedish Society of Cinematographers Founded in November 1961.
	HSC - Hungary	Magyar operatörök társasága/Hungarian Society of Cinematographers Founded in April 1990.
	ICG/Local 600 - USA	International Cinematographers Guild [Local 600 IATSE]
	IMAGO - Europe	IMAGO - European Federation of Cinematographers IMAGO was founded in Rome on 13 December 1992 on the initiative of Luciano Tovoli and with the participation of the AIC, AFC, BSC and BVK.
	ISC - India	Indian Society of Cinematographers Founded in December 1995.
	JSC - Japan	Japanese Society of Cinematographers In December 1954, 75 cinematographers affiliated with the major studios founded the Nippon Cinematographers Club. The name was changed to Japanese Society of Cinematographers in 1960.
	NSC - Netherlands	Netherlands Society of Cinematographers Founded in 1994.
	SBC - Belgium	Belgian Society of Cinematographers On 4 April 1993, Luciano Tovoli invited ten Belgian cinematographers for an informal meeting, which was followed a week later by the decision to found an association. On 11 December the bilingual statutes were signed.
	SOC - USA	Society of CameraOperators The SOC, formed in 1978, is an honorary organization composed of several hundred men and women internationally, who make their living operating film and/or video cameras. The SOC was incorporated in 1981 in California.