PETER DEMING ASC

Born: 13 December 1957, Beirut, Lebanon.

Education: American Film Institute, Los Angeles [graduated in 1980].

Career: Ph commercials dir by The Hughes Brothers ['Funk Ship', 2002; for Nike], Mark Pellington, David Lynch, Shaun Severi, a.o. Directed and ph music videos.

Active member of the ASC since November 1998.

Appeared in the doc's 'Behind the 'Scream'' [2000], 'Production Surveillance: Behind the Scenes of 'I Heart Huckabees'' [2004, Russell Barrett] & 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].

Awards: Independent Spirit Award nom [1991] for 'House Party'; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2001], Independent Spirit Award [2002] & CFCA Award nom [2002] for 'Mulholland Dr.'.

Website: Peter Deming

FILMS

1982	The Silence [Michael Toshiyuki Uno] c; short/?m
1983	The Party Animal [David Beaird] c; 3uc; ph: Bryan England
1984	The Carrier [Nathan J. White] c
1986	Evil Dead II [: Dead by Dawn] [Sam Raimi] c; night ext ph: Eugene Shlugleit; 2uc: Tim Philo
1986	Hollywood Shuffle [Robert Townsend] c; spph: Paul Slaughter
1988	It Takes Two/My New Car [David Beaird] c
1988	Purple People Eater [Linda Shayne] c
1988	Scarecrows [William Wesley] c
1988	From Hollywood to Deadwood [Rex Pickett] c; addph: Lisa Rinzler
1988	Martians Go Home! [David Odell] c
1988	Why Me? [Gene Quintano] c; 2uc: Walt Lloyd; aph: Mike Zingale
1989	Darkman [Sam Raimi] c; 2uc; ph: Bill Pope
1989	Men at Work [Emilio Estevez] c; 2uc; ph: Tim Suhrstedt
1989	House Party [Reginald Hudlin] c; 2uc: Randolf Sellars
1989	Book of Love [Robert Shaye] c
1990	Scorchers [David Beaird] c
1990	Drop Dead Fred [Ate de Jong] c; addph: Sandi Sissel & Francis Kenny; 2uc: Gregory Gardiner; spec pfx: Paul Gentry
1991	My Cousin Vinny [Jonathan Lynn] c
1991	Boomerang [Reginald Hudlin] c; co-addph; ph: Woody Omens
1992	[National Lampoon's] Loaded Weapon 1 [Gene Quintano] c
1992	Son-in-Law [Steve Rash] c; 2uc: Paul D. Hughen; vfx ph: Michael Sajbel
1993	Getting Even with Dad [Howard Deutch] c; 2uc; ph: Tim Suhrstedt
1993	Little Big League [Andrew Scheinman] c; co-2uc; ph: Donald E. Thorin
1993	S.F.W. [Jefery Levy] c
1994	Species [Roger Donaldson] p/c; co-addph; ph: Andrzej Bartkowiak
1995	Lumière et compagnie [seg (54 sec) 'Premonition Following An Evil Deed' dir by David Lynch] b&w-c; 40 seg; other ph: Sarah Moon, Philippe Poulet, Didier Ferry & Frédéric LeClair
1995	Joe's Apartment [John Payson] c
1995	Lost Highway [David Lynch] p/c; aph: Stan McClain
1996	Scream [Wes Craven] Clairmont-Scope/c; addph; ph: Mark Irwin
1996	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery [Jay Roach] s35/c; addph: Wally Pfister; uncred 2uc: Paul Hughen
1997	Scream 2 [Wes Craven] p/c; + small part
1998	Mystery, Alaska [Jay Roach] s35/c; addph: Jeffrey Jur; 2uc: Roger Vernon
1998	Music of the Heart [Wes Craven] c
1999	Mulholland Dr./Mulholland Drive [David Lynch] c; originally a pilot for ABC-tv
1999	Scream 3 [Wes Craven] p/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; miniature ph: Christopher Warren; + small part
2000	From Hell [Albert & Allen Hughes] p/c
2001	People I Know [Daniel Algrant] c
2001	Coney Island Baby [Amy Hobby] dv/c
2001	Austin Powers in Goldmember [Jay Roach] s35/c
2002	Twisted/The Blackout Murders [Philip Kaufman] c; 2uc: Lou Weinert
2003	I Heart Huckabees/I Love Huckabees [David O. Russell] p/c
2004	The Jacket [John Maybury] s35/c; aph: Clyde Miller
2004	Rumor Has It... [Rob Reiner] c; replaced ph Edward Lachman who had started filming with dir Ted Griffin
2005	Lucky You [Curtis Hanson] s35/c; uwph: Tom Boyd
2006	Married Life/Marriage [Ira Sachs] c
2006	I Think I Love My Wife [Chris Rock (replaced Charles Stone III)] c; uncred reshoots ph; ph: William Rexer II
2006	Blades of Glory [Josh Gordon & Will Speck] c; uncred reshoots ph; ph: Stefan Czapsky
2007	The Love Guru [Marco Schnabel] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; hockey unit ph: Stephen Andrich; aph (+ vfx ph): Kurt E. Soderling

"Drag Me to Hell"

2008	Drag Me to Hell [Sam Raimi] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Sanchez
2008	Last Night [Massy Tadjedin] p/c
2009	The Cabin in the Woods [Drew Goddard] (3-D)/c; 2uc: Stephen Jackson; uwph: Ian Seabrook
*2009*	Spider-Man 4 [Sam Raimi] announced, but film ('The Amazing Spider-Man') will be dir by Marc Webb and ph by John Schwartzman in 2010-11
2010	Scream 4 [Wes Craven] p (+ D-Cinema)/c
2011	Oz: The Great and Powerful [Sam Raimi] RED Epic-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c

TELEVISION

1992	Key West [ep #1 (pilot) dir by David Beaird] 13-part series, 1993; other ph: Vincent Baldino
1992	On the Air [various] 7-part (4 unaired) series; other ph (pilot): Ron García
1992	[David Lynch's] Hotel Room [ep 'Blackout' & 'Tricks' dir by David Lynch & 'Getting Rid of Robert' dir by James Signorelli] 3-part miniseries for HBO-tv
1994	Cosmic Slop [ep 'Space Traders' dir by Reginald Hudlin, 'Tang' dir by Kevin Rodney Sullivan & 'The First Commandment' dir by Warrington Hudlin] 3-part series
1994	The Last Days of Russell [Reginald Hudlin] unsold pilot/60m
1999	If These Walls Could Talk 2 [seg '2000' dir by Anne Heche] tvm/b&w-c; 3 seg; other ph: Paul Elliott & Robbie Greenberg
2007	Cashmere Mafia [pilot dir by Michael Pressman] 7-part series/HD, 2008; other ph (+ cph pilot): Frank Prinzi

MISCELLANEOUS

1983	Blame It on the Night [Gene Taft] co-c.op addph; ph: Alex Phillips Jr.
1983	Suburbia/Rebel Streets/The Wild Side [Penelope Spheeris] 2nd c.asst; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1987	Stars and Bars [Pat O'Connor] c.op; ph: Jerzy Zielinski
1987	Split Decisions/Kid Gloves [David Drury] 2nd c.op; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1988	Dead Solid Perfect [Bobby Roth; tvm] c.op; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1989	Cry-Baby [John Waters] co-c.op addph; addph: Bryan Duggan; ph: David Insley
2006	Inland Empire [David Lynch] co-add lighting tech + uncred ph cons; ph: D. Lynch