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JOAQUÍN BACA-ASAY |
Born: 3 September 1969, Berkeley, Calif., USA.
Education: Tisch School of the Arts, New York University [NYU] [BFA in 1991].
Career: Worked as gaffer for doph Lance Acord.
Ph commercials dir by Traktor, Mike Mills [for Adidas], Brian Beletic [for Reebok], Joachim Back [for Viagra], Bob Giraldi, Malcolm Venville [for Honda], Tom Kuntz, a.o. Ph music videos dir by Mark Romanek [2004; '99 Problems', a: Jay-Z].
Directed/ph commercials for Nike [2006], Nissan [2007], Eurostar [2007], Honda Acura [2009], Miller Lite [2009], a.o.
The commercial 'Endure' for Nike, which he co-d with Lance Acord, won an Epica Award [2006] in the category Footwear.
Joined Park Pictures, a commercial prod company, as dir/ph in June 2006. Also works as dir for The Gang Films [Paris, France].
Awards: NYU Filmfest Award [1992] for 'The Lady in Waiting', NYFCC Award [2002] for 'Roger Dodger'; MTV Video Music Award [2004] for '99 Problems'.
FILMS |
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1992 |
The Lady in Waiting [Christian Taylor] 16mm/c; short/30m; prod NYU |
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1993 |
A Dog Race in Alaska [Bart Freundlich] c; short/?m; prod NYU |
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1994 |
Sleepover [John F. Sullivan] s16-35bu/c; cph: Michael R. Morris |
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1994 |
Ratchet [John Johnson] c |
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1995 |
Low [Lise Raven] 16mm/c |
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1997 |
Baggage [Cara Buono] c; short/12m |
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1997 |
Dead Broke [Edward Vilga] c; premiered on internet |
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1997 |
Two Ninas [Neil Turitz] 16mm/c |
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1998 |
Streets Is Watching - The Movie [Abdul Malik Abbott (AMA)] c/V; comb of music videos and dram seq/60m; cph: AMA, Henry Adebonojo & Charles Houston |
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1998 |
Coming Soon [Colette Burson] c |
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1998 |
Wirey Spindell [: A Legend in His Own Mind] [Eric Schaeffer] c; 2uc; ph: Kramer Morgenthau |
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1998 |
The Dharma Brats: Growing Up Buddhist in America [Bari Pearlman & Jesse Govinda Thompson] s16/c; doc/?m; cph: Anthony Hardwick; some footage was shot in August, but it is unknown if prod was finished |
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1998 |
Chocolate for Breakfast/Four and a Half Women [Emily Baer] c |
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1998 |
Deformer [Mike Mills] c; exp doc/17m; or ph Jim Fealy |
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1998 |
Architecture of Reassurance [Mike Mills] c; short/23m |
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1998 |
Air - Eating Sleeping Waiting and Playing [Mike Mills] c; mus doc/60m |
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2000 |
Chaos Theory [Edward Vilga] c |
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2000 |
Paperboys [Mike Mills] c; doc/41m |
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2000 |
Super Troopers/Broken Lizard's Super Troopers [Jay Chandrasekhar] c; 2uc: Robert Barocci |
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2001 |
Showboy [Lindy Heymann & Christian Taylor] c |
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2001 |
Roger Dodger [Dylan Kidd] c |
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2003 |
Thumbsucker [Mike Mills] p/c |
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2003 |
p.s. [Dylan Kidd] c |
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2006 |
We Own the Night [James Gray] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Craig Haagensen; vfx ph: Eric Adkins |
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2006 |
An Inconvenient Truth [Davis Guggenheim] HD (Sony F950 + JVC HD100U)+8mm+16mm+35mm-to-35mm/b&w-c; co-addph; ph: Bob Richman & D. Guggenheim |
| 2007 | Santasm [Matt Dilmore & Tom Kuntz] c; viral (internet) short/1m16sec |
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2007 |
Two Lovers [James Gray] s35/c; 2uc: Craig Haagensen; uwph: David Knox |
TELEVISION |
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1995 |
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special [Dana Calderwood & (remote seg) Michael Patrick Jann] special (pilot)/60m; ph remote seg; ph Los Angeles (remote seg): Victor Nelli, Jr. |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1992 |
Ethan Frome [John Madden; tvm] c.asst; ph: Bobby Bukowski |
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2012 |
Dirty White Boy [dir] pre-production |