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Trevor
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« on: May 21, 2010, 10:52:57 AM »

To those that put me where I am today ~ thank you.  Smile

My parents ~ for dragging me kicking and screaming into a place called The Cinema when I was seven. They dragged me kicking and screaming in because I didn't want to go in and then, when Murder On The Orient Express was over, they had to drag me kicking and screaming out, because I didn't want to leave the Embassy cinema in what was then Gwelo, Rhodesia.  Smile In a way, I have never left that cinema and still get the same feeling today when I walk into one as I did when I did it for the first time.

Sidney Lumet: for making that film that blew me away many years ago.  Smile

David Millin ASC: the first African and South African to be awarded the right to use the letters ASC behind his name and my friend and mentor. He was the first person to teach me how to use a motion picture camera when he was filming at the NFA. The conversation between us went like this:

DM: "Trevor, I need a camera assistant and you're it."
TM:  Buggedout "Mr Millin, I've never used a motion picture camera before."
DM: "So you've never set one up, loaded it, operated it, nothing?"
TM: [sweating] "No, Mr Millin."
DM: [smiles] "OK ~ so why don't you just do it anyway?"
TM: "Huhh?"
DM: "Why don't you just do it anyway?"

Jans Rautenbach ~ the director of the terrifying Jannie Totsiens and the soul-ripping Katrina: all I can say is Baie dankie, Oom Jans.

Vincent G Cox ASC: my other mentor in film and a great visual stylist *HUG*.
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I know I can make it on my own if I try, but I'm searching for the Great Heart
To stand me by, underneath the African sky
A Great Heart to stand me by.
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