Guillermo Navarro, ASC, AMC and Richard Andry AFC. Posing in front of the new headquarters of Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH are (from left) Charlie Lieberman, ASC American Cinematographer editor-in-chief and publisher Stephen Pizzello Francis Kenny, ASC cameraman Illya Friedman and 1st AC/focus puller Gunnar Mortensen. (Photo by Stephen Pizzello)Īpproximately 1,000 industry guests attended the two-day event in mid-June, including ASC president Kees van Oostrum and Society members Ed Lachman, Guillermo Navarro, Charlie Lieberman, Francis Kenny and Jon Fauer.
Unveiling of Leitz Cine Wetzlar logo on Ernst Leitz Wetzlar building. Leica, the venerable German camera company that has earned the loyalty of world-class still photographers and imaging aficionados for more than a century, recently hosted an ambitious celebration at its multifaceted Leitz-Park headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany, using the occasion to announce the rebranding of CW Sonderoptic, its cinema-lens sister company, as Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH (or, as the building’s logo proclaims in shorthand, “Leitz Cine Wetzlar.”). Aurelian Dodoc show off the Academy Scientific and Engineering Award the company (formerly known as CW Sonderoptic) earned for its Summilux-C lenses - used by ASC member Emmanuel Lubezki on the 2014 feature film Birdman, which earned him the second of his three consecutive Oscars for Best Cinematography. While christening their new building at Leica's Leitz-Park complex, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH co-managing directors Gerhard Baier (left) and Dr. The rebranding of Leica’s cinema-lens sister company, formerly CW Sonderoptic, served as the centerpiece of the company’s gala event at its newly completed Leitz-Park complex in Wetzlar, Germany.