NEWS / BLOG

11/05/2008 MACRO MADNESS

Shot of a surgical device picking up a sesame seed in a spot for Prairie Hospital, directed by Rafael Fernandez

10/30/2008 PROTOTYPE CAMERA SHOOT

"Your mission, should you decide to accept it is to travel to the northern regions of california with a carefully seleced group of models and shoot professional looking footage with a prototype consumer camera." ( and when we say consumer we mean it ) The Bomb like object is a gyro stabilizer which was great to help tame the tiny camera.

10/14/2008 AIRPLANE AND LENS FLARE MAYHEM:

I've been kind of a lame blogger last month, I'll try to do better. This is some BTS from a Hamilton Watch commercial:

9/05/2008 BASTARDOS UPDATE:

Got this From Amat Escalante, Director of "Los Bastardos"

Hello to all,

I wanted to let you know how Los Bastardos has moved and will be moving in the next few months.
After Cannes it screened at the Munich Film Festival and after that at the Lima Film Festival in Peru, where it won one of two International Critic's Prizes. And the end of last month at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The upcoming confirmed festivals are:
-  Rio FF *Brazil (Sept 25 – Oct 9)
-  Morelia FF *Mexico Oct 4 - Oct 12)
-  Bergen FF *Norway (Oct 15 – 22)
-  Sitgès FF *Spain(Oct 2 – 12)
-  Mar Del Plata FF *Argentina ( Nov 6 – 16)
-  Göteborg FF *Sweden (Jan 23 – Feb 2)

The movie has been sold to about 4 country's so far and it should be released in France either September or November and in Mexico February 2009.

Send you my best wishes and regards,

Amat

8/25/2008 DISNEY XD

Just finishing a 11 day shoot for Disney's XD channel.... Photo by Nicolas Martin.

8/03/2008 SONY AUDIO

Vincent and I did a piece up in SF for Sony's audio group, It looks beautiful, finished HD which thankfully is becoming the norm.

7/18/2008 GIANT ATTACK

7/1/2008 MC DONALDS

Rafael and I had a camera movement binge on this Spot for Mc Dontalds - Word fromt the editing room is very positive.

Worked with Jason Farrand on a HP series for the web featuring Shaun White. We shot with 2 Reds and it went really well. First Job with the new EVF and I really like it.

5/5/2008 LINK TO ROLLY VIDEO

Here's a link to a promo I shot for Sony's new Dancing Robot Egg featuring Omarion. www.sony.com/rolly

5/23/2008 CANNES 2

Here's a few links to some "Los Bastardos" Reviews: "Matt Uhry's camerawork is always effective, whether under the scorching sun or in the night sequences..." "Visually Impressive"

Screen Daily

Telegraph

My Lot

Obsessed With FIlm

5/13/2008 CANNES

I'm Here...

5/9/2008 ADIDAS COASTAL

Spent the week in SF working on this long form piece for Adidas Coastal's "Celebrate Originality" Campaign with Austin artist Michael Siebel and his monster friends.

5/1/2008 GRADUATION PREMIERE


I went to the premiere for "Graduation" last night, It was great to see it with an audience in a nice theater. I'm so proud of the work that Mike Mayer and I did on it. Out on DVD in a few weeks. I'll link to it.

4/25/2008 SONY

I had to share...

4/23/2008 UN CERTAIN REGARD FOR LOS BASTARDOS

We're going to Cannes !!! I promise to blog a little from the Palais. I'm excited to see films from around the world and meet the filmmakers.

3/25/2008 CUNNIE WILLIAMS

Brook Willard, DIT mans latest version of the Red Camera on a Cunnie Williams music video. The video riffed on 60's TV shows, especially "Playboy, After Dark" We shot with a real Red and I thought it rocked.

3/18/2008 THELMA WINS PARIS TOUT COURT

Marc Maggiori's film ( that I shot ) "Thelma" won best film at the Paris Tout Court festival. It will next play in a short film showcase at Cannes.

3/06/2008 HAPPY 1930

We are in Bali and it's the day before the Hindu New years, The townspeople make Ogoh-Ogoh's which are demons that are supposed to represent all the bad influencens to clear them out before the new year. Here's a little Bali trip photo gallery.

1/28/2008 FINALLY GRADUATION HAS A DISTRIBUTOR

Magnolia is going to release "Graduation" limited theatrical and of course trucks and trains and massive container ships full of DVD's April for the screens, May for the shiny round disks.

1/21/2008 A THOUSAND WORDS

Music Video for SOHA last week. Pretty much love this image.

1/11/2008 SPANISH TECHNO AT BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

I got this email from Mike Palmeri about the music video we shot 2 years ago for "The New Pornographers". Mike's currently editing his documentary called "October Country" which looks like it's going to be really good.

12/31/2007 NEW YEAR, NEW CAMERA

The long awaited arrival of our RED 4k digital cinema camera is probably less than 30 days away. It's going to be an exciting year...

12/15/2007 AUSTIN

I'm filming a commercial for State Farm in Austin Texas, my first time with Dir. Michael Chaves. We are doing good work and having a good time too.

12/06/2007 ATLANTA

Are you wondering how to get the beers from your truck to your boat? Scooter Cooler! Richard Sears had me come out to the ATL to film some spots for Purolator.

11/12/2007 LOS BASTARDOS

Los Bastardos is over now. I think Nicolas Martin took this picture.

10/29/2007 INSIDE

Did I ever mention how much I like to light ? We are shooting in a smallish house near Long Beach Airport and I'm having fun lighting wide shots for our 2.35 frames.

10/24/2007 NO SUN, NO FILMING

There's a story about Akira Kurosawa while filming his masterpiece "RAN" waiting for days with a thousand extras, hundreds of horses on standby until the clouds moved to look just right in the frame. We just had two guys and a tame rabbit, but we also needed sun for this scene, so we waited.

10/09/2007 BASTARDOS DAY ONE

Today we started "Los Bastardos" It's been 11 months wait and now it's happening.

9/04/2007 ALL YOUR BALTARS ARE BELONG TO US

As if taking most of the Porsche 356's and Jaguar E types was not bad enough, apparently Asian photographers / collectors are stripping America of it's precious Baltars. These lenses were the standard issue lens in Hollywood from the 1940's to the 1970's. Who can say what films have been shot with any given set ? Oh yeah, the Baltars still make great images, just now on the other side of the Pacific. Won't you help save the Baltars ?

8/25/2007 DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, YEAR ZERO

It's not quite ready for prime time but the Red is here...

8/14/2007 RED SHOOT IN CANADA NEXT WEEK

I'm going to shoot a few commercials in Calgary next week with the RED camera. A full report will follow...

9/08/2007 GOT MY OWN COPY OF THE MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE EVER

I Just got the package from Moldavia - It's the 1989 film "Freeze-Die-Come to Life" by Vitali Kanevsky about two Siberian kids who go on a extra parental adventure. Needless to say, tragic on every level.

8/14/2007 SACRAMENTO

I'm in Sacramento doing a few spots for Lucky Supermarket Chain, we're shooting nights in the store. Thanks to my SF based keys for making it all very smooth, Steve Condiotti, Mark Otewalt and Rick Ewald.

8/9/2007 FRANK GEHRY

Director Brent Thomas and I filmed an interview with Frank Gehry at his architectural firm in Marina Del Rey. Gehry has a thing for chocolate raspberry cupcakes. He talked alot about integrating his structures into real neighborhoods. The shoot is for the new Nets Stadium in Brooklyn.

8/02/2007 VACATION !!

Sheigh and I went on driving vacation to Colorado and back.

7/29/2007 SUM 41 #2

Photo montage of some more of the Sum 41 shoot The Skater dolly ( as seen at Cinegear ) was very useful in filming the robot scenes.

7/27/2007 SUM 41

I shot a Music Video for Sum 41 with Steven Penta, The Location was an incredible toy store on Pico. Much Chaos and mayhem ensued!

7/25/2007 LUNCHEON ON THE GREEN ( SCREEN )

Another nice, well air conditioned shoot with Charles Jensen for John Hancock.

7/23/2007 A FEW PICTURES OF SOHA FROM THE SHOOT

Just snaps, I hope to have some framegrabs in a few days...

7/20/2007 EVERYTHINGS BROKEN AND NO ONE SPEAKS ENGLISH

I've Just been shooting a video with Mark M. for the French Artist SOHA. I think it's going to be a good one.

7/10/2007 NEW BABY, NEW JERSEY

We were just shooting the last setups of a spot for John Hancock insurance on a stage in New Jersey, when the director Charles Jensen got THE CALL. He bolted from the stage and bounced from EWR to JFK like a demented pinball trying to get an early flight home! Congratulationis Charles and Angela!, welcome to L.A. baby Ella!!!