Mauro Fiore
Mauro Fiore ( born 1964 in Marzi, Cosenza ) is an Italian- American cinematographer and Academy Award winner.
Life
Mauro Fiore was born in Calabria, but moved as a child in 1971 with his family to the United States. He studied camera at Columbia College in Chicago and graduated in 1987 with a BA from. He then traveled through Europe, but then followed his friend and fellow student Janusz Kaminski to Hollywood. Kaminski sat at that time continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, the American Film Institute and worked in parallel in the nearby studios of Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures in Venice. Kaminski was there initially worked as a Gaffer, Wally Pfister ( also AFI student) came about as an electrician and as soon as second-unit cameraman, and Mauro Fiore and worked as a Key Grip for camera men like Levie Isaacks and Phedon Papamichael. As Kaminski had risen to become a Director of Photography ( DoP ), Fiore worked as his gaffer, gaffer and camera operator. In 1993, Steven Spielberg Kaminski made it his new permanent DoP, and Fiore followed him and worked for several Spielberg Kaminski productions as chief electrician ( Schindler's List, 1993) or second-unit cameraman ( Jurassic Park 2 and Amistad, both in 1997 ). Additional experience as a second-unit cameraman He gained DoP John Schwartzman in the Michael Bay - projects The Rock (1996) and Armageddon (1998).
Since 1995, Fiore worked as Director of Photography. After some minor productions came here his breakthrough after Janusz Kaminski (now awarded with a camera - Oscar) him in his directorial debut, Lost Souls (filmed 1998) had worked as DoP. Since then, Fiore worked with directors like Renny Harlin and Michael Bay on big budget Hollywood productions. Several times he stood for Antoine Fuqua (for Training Day, Tears of the Sun and the Pirelli Advertising The Call ) and Joe Carnahan (initially in the BMW Z4 promotional film ticker and the series pilot, Faceless, then in Smokin 'Aces and The A-Team ) behind the camera.
Fiore's most technically demanding task was the live-action camera work for James Cameron's Avatar. Fiore turned the live-action sequences from October 2007 to February 2008 in the studio in Wellington in New Zealand. At the beginning of Fiore's work Cameron had already completed six months the performance capture and facial capture sequences in Playa Vista, California; the rotated by Fiore studio recordings made at the end of an estimated 30 % of the film. The film was shot with the model developed by Vince Pace Pace Fusion 3D camera system and was (after the shot on DigiBeta The Center of the World and The partially digitally produced Kingdom) both Fiore's first fully digitally rotated major project as well as his first work in 3-D. For Avatar Fiore 2010 received the Academy Award and a BFCA Award for Best Cinematography and was also nominated for the BAFTA Award and the ASC Award.
In 2000, Mauro Fiore married Cristine Vollmer, they have three children.