CINEMATOGRAPHY
SARAH KERLIN
Rental Manager at TCS
Sarah Kerlin is the creator/director of the YouTube webseries, 'Film Life Rules', a how-to series for set behavior and etiquette. She is also the creator of the upcoming podcast, Anxious AF, where people share stories and experiences with anxiety. She is currently the senior rental manager at TCS, a film/television camera rental house in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Follow her at @sarahkerlin on Instagram or the podcast at @anxiousafshow on all platforms for updates.
MEG KETTELL
Director of Photography/Cinematographer
Meg Kettell is a cinematographer based in New York City. She owns an Arri Alexa camera and shoots commercials, narrative films, documentaries and branded content. A member of IATSE Local 600 [International Cinematographers Guild] and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Meg won the Bahoric-Meisel Award for Women Cinematographers two years in a row. She works with some of the best film crews in New York City and around the globe and her cinematography has screened at numerous film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
JENDRA JARNAGIN
Director of Photography/Cinematographer
Jendra Jarnagin is an award winning DP with over 25 years experience working in feature films, episodic television and online series, commercials, music videos, documentaries and VR. Her films have been shown at the Whitney Museum, the UN, Sundance and Camerimage. She has shot TV series for ABC, FOX, PBS, and Hulu and ad campaigns for Maybelline, Estée Lauder, Shea Moisture, Adidas, Canon and Lincoln.
AYANA BARAKA
Cinematographer
Ayana Baraka was the Cinematographer for “Behind the Curtain: Eclipsed,” starring
Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira, which documented the ‘herstoric’ Broadway production of “Eclipsed.” She was also a cinematographer for the Oscar hopeful, “The Hunting Ground,” the John Legend produced film, “United Skates,” and “Giving Voice,” which premiered
at Sundance 2020. Baraka was named a ‘person on the rise’ in Hollywood by producer Mel Jones. She’s a winner of the 2016 award for Best Cinematography at the Victoria TX Independent Film Festival and the 2019 Culture Catalyst award recipient at the Digital
Diversity Network’s Innovation & Inclusion Awards.
Baraka is the content creator for a virtual reality experience about Black Wall Street and the
Race Massacre of 1921 called “Greenwood Avenue.” Baraka’s foray into immersive storytelling came while attending USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for her MFA in Cinematic Art, Film, and Television. She joined a team of innovators at USC's Mixed Reality Studio,
a Siggraph winning team for creating photo-real animation in virtual reality. Baraka went on to become a 2018 YouTube VR Creator Fellow, 2018 Oculus Connect Fellow, and a 2019 Black Public Media 360+ Incubator Fellow.
CHLOE SMOLKIN
Director of Photography/Cinematographer and Storyboard Artist
Brand new
Chloe Smolkin is an award-winning cinematographer and storyboard artist with over a decade of experience in the worlds of independent film, nationally broadcast television, and high-end commercials. She recently won the Award of Excellence in Cinematography from the Brightside Film Festival for the short film, “Isolated Incident,” which also played at Cannes. Her varied commercial clients include AT&T, Lego, Ford, PayPal, and Nickelodeon. She has shot many nationally aired TV shows, including Good Morning America and Would You Fall for That? for ABC, Top Chef Masters for Bravo, and The Chris Gethard Show for Fusion. The features she’s shot have won many prizes, including Best Alternative Feature at the Manhattan Film Festival and Best Comedy at the Madrid Int’l Film Festival. She has storyboarded five features, as well as dozens of short films and commercials, including spots for Toyota, Comedy Central, West Elm, and Dasani. One such commercial, for History Channel, won a Silver Promax Award.
CHRISTINE NG
Director of photography
Christine Ng is a Hong Kong born, New York raised director of photography and a graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her cinematography work spans commercials, music videos, documentaries and narrative.
The first commercial she shot, Honda’s “50 states” aired during Super Bowl XLVI. Since then she has shot for clients such as: Chanel, Dior, Google, Nike, Dove, Maybelline, HP, Sony, Bushmills, Land Rover, Ralph Lauren and many more. Her work for Cancerland x Refinery 29 won a Bronze Clio Award.
The first feature-length documentary Christine shot was the Emmy nominated and Critic’s Choice winner “Everything is Copy: Nora Ephron Scripted and Unscripted”, which she co-DP’ed with Bradford Young and premiered on HBO.
Christine has worked on long-form series such as “I Hart Food” starring YouTube star, Hannah Hart, Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” for Netflix. and most recently Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us” also for Netflix.
KATE PHELAN
Director of Photography/Cinematographer
After years as a union gaffer lighting such films as GIRLFIGHT, PIECES OF APRIL & SUNSHINE STATE, Kate began shooting full time in 2005. In 2009 she lensed the first season of TOSH.0 and the Emmy nominated web series HONESTY, both for Comedy Central. She’s shot half hour pilots for MTV & VH1, five features and over 100 promos & commercials. She’s most recently shot for AMAZON, ABC & TBS. She’s been a member of the International Cinematographers Guild for 12 years.