Wunstorf, Peter

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WUNSTORF, Peter

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Raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Addresses:

Agent—Montana Artists Agency, 7715 Sunset Blvd., Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90046; Vertigo Representatives, 357 Eglinton Ave. West, Suite 803, Toronto, Ontario M5N 1A3, Canada.

Career:

Cinematographer. Photography director for music videos, documentary films, and commercials. Teacher of cinematography. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), former camera operator for French News; also worked as a camera operator for other Canadian television stations and as a unit photography director.

Awards, Honors:

Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards, best cinematography, c. 1993, for Bordertown Cafe, and c. 1994, for Road to Saddle River; Genie Award nomination, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, best achievement in cinematography, 1994, for Double Happiness; American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, outstanding achievement in cinematography in movies of the week or pilots, 1996, and Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, c. 1996, both for Millennium; Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association Award, c. 1998, for Heart of the Sun; American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, outstanding achievement in cinematography in movies of the week, miniseries, or pilots for network or basic broadcast television, 2002, for Smallville; American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, outstanding achievement in cinematography in movies of the week, miniseries, or pilots for network or basic broadcast television, and Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, best cinematography in a television drama, both 2003, for Haunted.

CREDITS

Film Cinematographer:

Age Is No Barrier, National Film Board of Canada, 1989.

City of Champions, 1990.

The Grocer's Wife, Medusa Produzione, 1991.

Solitaire, Alberta Releasing, 1991.

Breaking Point (also known as Double Suspicion), Republic, 1993.

The Perfect Man, 1993.

Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (also known as Dangerous Desires), California Home Video/VCL Communications, 1993.

Road to Saddle River, Damberger Film and Cattle Co./ National Film Board of Canada, 1994.

Strange and Rich, Kicking Horse Productions, 1994.

Double Happiness (also known as Bonheur aigre–doux), Fine Line, c. 1994.

The Michelle Apts. (also known as The Michelle Apartments), ARTO–pelli Motion Pictures, 1995.

Drive, She Said, Beyond Films, 1997.

Heart of the Sun, Dancing Stones Film Production/Ennerdale Productions/Makara Pictures, 1998.

Long Life, Happiness, & Prosperity, 2002, Film Movement, 2004.

Film Work; Other:

Second unit director of photography, Snow Day, Paramount, 2000.

Also affiliated with the film Bordertown Cafe, National Film Board of Canada, 1993.

Television Cinematographer; Movies:

Invasion of Privacy, HBO, 1996.

The Virginian, TNT, 2000.

(With others) Noriega: God's Favorite, Showtime, 2000.

Television Cinematographer; Episodic:

"The Genius," Mentors, The Family Channel (Canada), 1999.

Television Cinematographer; Pilots:

Millennium, Fox, 1996.

Two, CTV and syndicated, c. 1996.

Strange World, ABC, 1999.

Total Recall 2070 (also known as Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams), Showtime, 1999.

Dark Angel (also known as James Cameron's Dark Angel), Fox, 2000.

Smallville (also known as Smallville Beginnings and Smallville: Superman the Early Years), The WB, 2001.

Haunted, UPN, 2002.

Tarzan, The WB, 2003.

Kat Plus One, ABC, 2004.

Television Work; Other; Movies:

Second assistant camera operator, The Gunfighters, syndicated, 1987.

First assistant camera operator, Cowboys Don't Cry, CBC, 1988.

Additional photographer, Noriega: God's Favorite, Showtime, 2000.

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