DECLAN QUINN

#1: From interview [2012]

#2: With dir Rebecca Miller - "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" [2008]

DECLAN QUINN ASC/ISC

Born: 1957, Chicago, Ill., USA, to parents newly emigrated from Ireland. His Irish name is Deaglán Ó Cuinn.

Education: Columbia College, Chicago [2-year film course; BA in 1979].

Career: Went to Offaly, Ireland, when he was almost 13 and finished high school there. Went back to the USA and became freelance still ph for newspapers and magazines. After his study at Columbia College, he became news cameraman for a Rockford tv-station. Returned to Chicago and worked as grip, electrician and c.asst. Went to Ireland in 1980 and worked at the Windmill Lanes Studios where he met dir Meiert Avis and the pop group U2. He did 2nd camera on U2's music video 'New Year's Day'. He ph doc's, music videos and tours for U2. Went back to the USA in 1985 and settled in New York working for MTV.

Ph commercials dir by Nick Cassavetes [for Radio Shack], Ed Bianchi [for Advil], Errol Morris, Meiert Avis [for Coca Cola], Bill D'Elia, Paula Greif, Mike Bigelow [for Pizza Hut], a.o. Ph music videos, e.g. 'The Fly' [1991; a: U2; d: Jon Klein & Richie Smyth], 'Tonight, Tonight' [1996; a: The Smashing Pumpkins; d: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris] & 'The End Is the Beginning Is the End' [1997; a: The Smashing Pumpkins; d: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris].

One of the founding members of the Irish Society of Cinematographers [ISC] [2010]. His brother Paul and sister Marian are film directors; his brother Aidan is an actor.

Awards: MTV Award [1996] for 'Tonight, Tonight'; Independent Spirit Award [1996] for 'Leaving Las Vegas'; Independent Spirit Award [1998] for 'Kama Sutra'; Sundance FF 'Cinematography Award' [1998] for '2by4'; 'Emmy' Award nom [2003] for 'Hysterical Blindness'; Independent Spirit Award [2004] for 'In America'; IFTA Award nom [2007] for 'Breakfast on Pluto'.

FILMS
1984	U2: Unforgettable Fire [Meiert Avis, Donald Cammell & Barry Devlin] v/c; mus doc/30m (tv-version); released on video with added music videos as 'The Unforgettable Fire Collection'
1987	U2: Outside It's America [Barry Devlin & Meiert Avis (video 'Where the Streets Have No Name')] c; mus doc/44m
1987	Not Me [Damon Santostefano] c; short/40m; intended for use in promoting group discussion of drug abuse problems
1988	The Kill-Off [Maggie Greenwald] c
1989	Tour Film R.E.M. [Jim McKay & Michael Stipe] b&w-c; mus doc/85m; 16mm ph: Jem Cohen & Jonathan Dayton; 8mm ph: J. McKay, Jem Cohen & Valerie Faris; filmed 7-13 November in Roanoke, VA, Hampton, VA, Greensboro, NC, Macon, GA & Atlanta, GA
1990	Blood & Concrete - A Love Story [Jeffrey Reiner] c; uwph: Pete Romano
1990	Iron & Silk [Shirley Sun] c; addph; ph: James Hayman
1990	Red Hot + Blue [seg #13 (3m24s) 'Well, Did You Evah!' dir by Alex Cox (a: Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop)] b&w-c/V; mus comp/111m; other ph: Tom Sigel, Ed Lachman, Andrew Dunn, a.o.; this film (18 music videos + art breaks) accompanied the comp album (20 tracks) from the Red Hot Organization (an AIDS Benefit project); also an ABC-tv special
1990	Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium [Jon Small] c/V; concert film/86m; cph: Anastas Michos, Crescenzo Notarile, Phil Parmet, Paul Cameron, Nancy Schreiber, a.o.; filmed in June in New York City
1990	Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare/A Nightmare On Elm Street 6 [: Freddy's Dead] [Rachel Talalay] c; 2uc: Phil Parmet; addph: James L. Carter; sfx ph: Mark A. Shelton; vfx ph: Tim Angulo; final sequence in 3-D (Freddy-Vision); filmed 1990-91
1991	Cousin Bobby [Jonathan Demme] 16mm-35bu/c; doc/69m; cph: Ernest Dickerson, Jacek Laskus, Craig Haagensen & Tony Jannelli; also ep of PBS-tv doc series 'P.O.V.' (1993)
1992	The Ballad of Little Jo [Maggie Greenwald] p/c; 2uc: Mitchell Amundsen
1993	The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow [Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris] c/V; perf/35m; + co-c.op; filmed 5 February (Moore Theatre, Seattle, Washington)
1993	All Things Bright and Beautiful [Barry Devlin] c
1994	Vanya on 42nd Street [Louis Malle] c
1994	Rough Cut [Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris] b&w-c; mus doc (with rock band R.E.M.)/58m; cph: J. Dayton
1994	Leaving Las Vegas [Mike Figgis] s16-35bu/c
1995	Carried Away/Acts of Love [Bruno Barreto] c; 2uc: Russ Brandt
1995	Kama Sutra – A Tale of Love [Mira Nair] c; 2uc: Donal Gilligan & Sanjay Gupta; uwph: Pete Romano
1996	One Night Stand [Mike Figgis] c
1997	2by4/Sheet Rock [Jimmy Smallhorne] c
1997	This Is My Father [Paul Quinn] c; + exec prod
1997	One True Thing [Carl Franklin] c; 2uc: Andrew Casey, Chris Norr & Gabor Kover
1998	Flawless [Joel Schumacher] c
1999	28 Days [Betty Thomas] c
2000	Monsoon Wedding [Mira Nair] s16-35bu/c; 2uc: Naresh Bedi
2000	City by the Sea [Michael Caton-Jones] s35/c; addph; ph: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
2001	In America/East of Harlem [Jim Sheridan] c; 2uc: Gerard Sava (New York) & Howard Smith; addph: Phil Oetiker (uncred), Martin Little (New York) & Naomi Sheridan (New York); ph snow unit New York (s16): John Inwood
2002	11'09''01 - September 11/11 minutes 9 seconds 1 image [seg #9 'India' dir by Mira Nair] b&w-c; dram doc/135m; 11 seg; other ph: Pierre-William Glenn, Samuel Bayer, Mohsen Nasr, Nigel Willoughby, a.o.
2002	Cold Creek Manor [Mike Figgis] c; 2uc: Harry Lake
2003	Vanity Fair [Mira Nair] c; 2uc: Jay Odedra
*2003*	32A [Marian Quinn] announced as doph, but shot in July 2006 by ph P.J. Dillon
*2004*	Good Ol' Boy [Paul Quinn] announced in July; pre-production in 2008
2004	Breakfast on Pluto [Neil Jordan] c
2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin' [Jim Sheridan] s35/c; 2uc: David Perrault & Anthony Jannelli (New York)
2006	Pride and Glory [Gavin O'Connor] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc (+ c.op 'a' cam): Gerard Sava; aph 2u: Brian Heller
2006	Jimmy Carter Man from Plains [Jonathan Demme] c; doc/125m; add cam: Tony Jannelli, Gerard Sava, a.o.; filmed 2006-07
2007	The Lucky Ones [Neil Burger] c; addph: Richard Rutkowski
2007	Rachel Getting Married/Dancing with Shiva [Jonathan Demme] HD (Sony F900R)-to-35mm/c
2007	Neil Young Trunk Show - Scenes from a Concert [Jonathan Demme] s8+HD-to-35mm/c; concert film/84m; s8 footage: Jon Knoop & L.A. Johnson; filmed 9-10 December (Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA)
2008	8 [seg #3 'How Can It Be?' dir by Mira Nair] c; 8 seg; all seg filmed 2005-08
2008	New York, I Love You [seg dir by Mira Nair] HD (Genesis)+35mm-to-35mm/c; 10 (originally 12) seg + transitions; other ph: Pawel Edelman, Andrij Parekh, Mauricio Rubinstein, a.o.; 2nd film in 'Cities of Love'-series
2008	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee [Rebecca Miller] c; 2uc: Charles Libin
*2009*	Marley [Jonathan Demme (replaced Martin Scorsese who left due to a scheduling conflict)] c; mus doc; addph: Charles Libin; the screening of some rough cut and the fact that producer Steve Bing was less than impressed lead to J. Demme leaving the prod; project was finished by dir Kevin Macdonald (with ph Mike Eley, Alwin Kuchler & Wally Pfister)

[Right] with dir Anthony Anderson [2009]

2009	Anthony Anderson Project [Anthony Anderson] b&w-c; short/1m23s; for Liberty Mutual's 'The Responsibility Project'/NBC-tv
2010	I'm Carolyn Parker [: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful] [Jonathan Demme] dv/c; doc/93m; co-addph; ph: J. Demme; filmed 2005-10; also ep of PBS-tv series 'POV' (2012)
2010	The Moth Diaries [Mary Harron] s35-to-35mm/c
*2010*	Black Mass [Jim Sheridan] pre-production; filmed in 2014 by dir Scott Cooper and ph by Masanobu Takayanagi
2011	Being Flynn/Another Bullshit Night in Suck City [Paul Weitz] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Jack Donnelly
2011	Neil Young Journeys [Jonathan Demme] HD (ARRI ALEXA + Panasonic HPX170 + Sony PMW-F3 + Iconix Studio 2K)/c; mus doc/87m; addph: Charles Libin & Adam CK Vollick; filmed in May (Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada)
2011	The Reluctant Fundamentalist [Mira Nair] HD (ARRI ALEXA Studio)+s35-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Shanker Raman; Pakistan ph: Saqib Malik
2012	A Master Builder/Fear of Falling/Wally and André Shoot Ibsen/The House at Lovestrand [Jonathan Demme] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c
2012	Admission [Paul Weitz] HD (ARRI ALEXA Studio)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; uncred time lapse ph: David Knox
2012	The Tale of Timmy 2 Chins [Nancy Savoca] HD/c; short/17m; cph: Mauricio Rubinstein; prod Scenarios USA
2013	The Suffering Kind [Kevin Liddy] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; short/26m; + co-prod
2013	Hot Tub Time Machine 2 [Steve Pink] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)-to-D-Cinema/c; uncred addph: David Waldman
2014	Nafas/Breath [Mira Nair] HD/c; short/?m; multi-screen, permanent installation film for architect Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar in Doha
2014	Ricki and the Flash [Jonathan Demme] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT)-to-digital (scope)/c
2015	Sidemen - Long Road to Glory [Scott Rosenbaum] b&w-c; mus doc/77m; ph Gregg Allman & Warren Haynes interv
2015	The Shack [Stuart Hazeldine] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT Plus)-to-D-Cinema (scope)/c; splinter unit ph: Brian Johnson; 2uc: Karl Hermann; aph: John Trapman; uwph: Ian Seabrook
2016	The End of Romance [Trish McAdam] in development
2016	Black 47/The Ranger [Lance Daly (replaced P.J. Dillon)] c; filmed 2016-17; based on the short film 'An Ranger' (2008, P.J. Dillon; ph: Ken Byrne)

TELEVISION & INTERNET
1986	The Clash of the Ash [Fergus Tighe] tvm/53m; addph: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
1987	The Negro Ensemble Company [Richard Kilberg] doc/55m; cph: Mark Krenzien & John Heller; ep PBS-tv series 'American Masters'
1988	Lapsed Catholics [Barry Devlin] tvm
1989	Over the Limit [Nancy Cooperstein] tvm/60m; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'
1990	The Hollow Boy [Noel Black] tvm/55m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1991	Lies of the Twins [Tim Hunter] tvm
1991	The Heart of Justice [Bruno Barreto] tvm
1992	The Bargain Shop [Johnny Gogan] tvm/54m
1993	Rocky World [Philip King] mus doc (with singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois)/b&w-c/52m/s16; ph Montreal: Mark MacKay; add footage: Ian Galloway; ep Channel 4 series 'Sound Stuff'
1993	Fallen Angels [ep #1 'Dead-End for Delia' dir by Phil Joanou & #6 'Since I Don't Have You' dir by Jonathan Kaplan] 15-part series, 1993 & 1995; 1st season, 1993; other ph: Peter Suschitzky (2 ep) & Emmanuel Lubezki (2 ep)
1994	Christy [Philip King] doc/55m; addph: Cian de Buitléar
1994	Rock the Vote Targets Health Care [Larry Williams & Leslie Libman] 4-part ep of MTV-series 'Out of Order'
1994	Strange Habit [Larry Williams & Leslie Libman] ep (18m) of MTV-series 'Out of Order'
1999	Keeping Time - The Poet and the Piper [Philip King & Declan Quinn] doc/55m
2001	Hysterical Blindness [Mira Nair] tvm; 2uc: Gerard Sava
2013	Line of Sight [Jonathan Demme] pilot/HD; for AMC-tv
2014	Neighborhood Sessions: Jennifer Lopez [Danny Clinch & (live perf) Alex Coletti] live perf + doc/HD/42m; ep #1 of concert/doc series for TNT-tv; sponsored by StateFarm Insurance; filmed 4 June at Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York City
2015	Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids [Jonathan Demme] HD/c; concert film/90m; filmed 2 January (MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas); for Netflix
2015	LFE [David Slade] pilot/HD; for CBS-tv
2015	Neighborhood Sessions: Toby Keith [Stephen C. Mitchell] live perf + doc/HD/?m; ep #2; filmed 1 September in Norman, Oklahoma, USA; see 2014
2015	American Express Unstaged - Disclosure [Alex Coletti] concert film/HD/live stream; cph: Shana Hagan; concert took place on 29 September in Los Angeles
201?	Hamilton [Thomas Kail] live capture of Broadway play

MISCELLANEOUS
1989	Van Morrison - The Concert [Jon Small; concert film] co-c.op; ph: Crescenzo Notarile
2005	Neil Young - Heart of Gold/Prairie Wind [Jonathan Demme; interv + concert film] co-c.op; ph: Ellen Kuras
2006	Shine a Light [Martin Scorsese; mus doc] co-c.op; ph: Robert Richardson
2006	Berlin [Julian Schnabel; concert film] 'b' cam op; ph: Ellen Kuras