Who is Halyna Hutchins accidentally killed by Alec Baldwin?

Thursday, October 21, in New Mexico, the team of director Joel Souza is shooting the western Rust. While unloading a pistol, filming prop, Alec Baldwin fired. The shot affected the director of the film as well as Halyna Hutchins, director of photography. Taken by ambulance to the Santa Fe medical center, Joel Souza was admitted to intensive care but is now out of danger. The 42-year-old cinematographer, flown by helicopter to Albuquerque hospital, has died, announced Variety.

In filming since October 6, 2021, the film Rust is a western starring Alec Baldwin, Travis Fimmel and Frances Fisher. This was the seventh film on which Halyna Hutchins was the director of photography.

A rising star of photography

Born in Ukraine under the Soviet regime, Halyna Hutchins grew up on a military base in the Arctic. This is where she develops her love for cinema “Because there wasn’t much to do outside” report American Cinematographer. She began a career as a journalist in Eastern Europe before moving to the United States to embark on film. She also tries her hand at fashion photography to learn more about “The aesthetics of lighting” and how “Create the atmosphere, the feeling”. In 2013, she candidate for the American Film Institute Conservatory pushed by Robert Primes, director of photography winner of two Emmy Awards for Felicity and My Antonia. She studied there for two years.

After her diploma, she worked in particular on Archenemy and on Darlin. In 2019, she was among the magazine’s top 10 rising film photography stars. American Cinematographer. The site portrays these directors of photography “Promising people who make their mark” in the movie industry. On the news of her death, the Directors Guild of America of which she was a part regretted, in a statement taken up by Variety, the loss of the photographer and expressed its support for the investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the incident. .

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