Cinematographer

ASC Charles B. Lang Heritage Award Winner
Haskell Wexler Award Winner

FEATURE  – selected credits and screenings

LOVE & AIR SEX (formerly the BOUNCEBACK) USA, 90min 2014
Dir: Bryan Poyser
Prod: Megan Gilbride, Trace Shehan
Distributor: Tribeca Films
Official Selection SXSW 2013 World Premiere
 
“….d.p. PJ Raval makes everything else look every bit as professional as a studio comedy, while capturing the flavor of Austin’s most popular bars, restaurants and hangouts.” -Variety

The Great Invisible USA 2014 – additional cinematographer
Dir: Margaret Brown
Distributor: Radius-TWC
Best Documentary Jury Award SXSW 2014 

Citizen Koch USA 2014 – additional cinematographer
Dir: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Elsewhere Films
Distributor: Variance Films
Academy Award Best Documentary Short List 2015
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2013 World Premiere

FOURPLAY USA 2013
Dir: Kyle Henry
Prod: Jason Wehling
Exec. Producers: Michael Stipe, Jim McKay
Distributor: TLA
FOURPLAY TAMPA           
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight 2011
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2012
FOURPLAY SAN FRANCISCO
WINNER Best Short Film Newfest 2011
FOURPLAY (feature)
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012
Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012
Official Centerpiece Film Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012

Habibi Rasak Kharban Palestine 2011
Prod/ Dir: Susan Youssef
Cast: Kais Nashif (PARADISE NOW), Youssef Abu-Warda, Maysa Elhadi
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2011
Official Selection Toronto Film Festival 2011
WINNER FISCEPI PRIZE Dubai Film Festival 2012
WINNER Best Feature Film Dubai Film Festival 2012
WINNER Best Actor Dubai Film Festival 2012

Trouble the Water super-16, video, 2008
Prod/Dir: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Dist: Zeitgeist Films
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary 2009
WINNER Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Award 2008
WINNER Best Documentary Gotham Awards 2008
WINNER Full Frame / Working Films Award Full Frame Documentary Festival 2008
WINNER Best Documentary Jury Award Full Frame Documentary Festival 2008
WINNER Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights Full Frame Documentary Festival 2008 

Gretchen super-16 / color 2006
Based off the award winning short “Gretchen and the Night Danger”
Dir: Steve Collins
Prod: Van Hoy Knudsen, film science
Featuring Courtney Davis, Becky Ann Baker, and Steven Root as Herb Finkle
Official Selection SXSW 2007
Official Selection Los Angeles Film Festival 2006
WINNER “Best Narrative Feature” Los Angeles Film Festival 2006
 
 ROOM video / 35mm / color 2005
Dir: Kyle Henry, Featuring Cyndi Williams
Exec. Prod. C-Hundred (Michael Stipe and Jim McKay)
Prod: 7th floor, cinepraxis
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2005
Official Selection Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival 2005
Independent Spirit Award Nomination “John Cassavetes Award” 2006
Independent Spirit Award Nomination “Best Female Lead” for Cyndi Williams 2006
Winner of the Haskell Wexler Award for Cinematography for PJ Raval 2005

GENERAL CINEMATOGRAPHY – selected credits and screenings

FEATURES:

BLISS (in progress) 20min USA, Germany, Mexico, Holland 2015
Director: Wu Tsang

A Cloud of Hope (in progress) 90 min. USA, South Africa, 2015
Dir: Steve Fagin
Experimental Feature Film

Sunset Stories (formerly COOLER) 2012, Distributor: FilmBuff
Dir: Silas Howard & Ernesto Foronda
Prod: Tatiana Kelly & Valerie Stadler
Official Selection SXSW 2012
Official Centerpiece Film: VC Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Winner Best Ensemble Performance VC Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Winner Emerging Filmmaker Award CAAMfest 2013 

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of America’s Superheroines – – additional cinematographer
Dir: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Prod: Kelcey Edwards,
Official Selection SXSW 2012
PBS broadcast 2013 Independent Lens

The 2 Bobs USA 2009
Dir: Tim McCanlies
Prod: Anne Walker, Seth Caplan – Texas Avenue Films
Cast: Mika Boorem, Jay Chandrasekhar, Tyler Francavilla, Leo Nam, Devin Ratray
Official Selection SXSW

Dirt super-16, 2007
Canadian National Film Board
Dir: Meghna Haldar
Winner Leo Award Best Screenwriting, Best Editing & Best Sound Editing  2009
Nominated Best Documentary Leo Award 2009
Best Feature Documentary
 Female Eye Film Festival

Cassidy Kids HD / S-16mm / 16mm / color 2006
The makers of the Independent Spirit award nominee “Dear Pillow”
Dir: Jake Vaughan
Prod: Megan Gilbride, Bryan Poyser
Featuring Kadeem Hardison, Anne Ramsay and Judah Friedlander
Official Selection SXSW 2006
IFC Channel Broadcast Spring
SHORT NARRTIVES:

She Gone Rogue 90min 2013 Dir: Rhys Ernst & Zachary Drucker
Holly Woodlawn segment
Whitney Biennial 2013
Hammer Museum LA Live Showcase 2012
WINNER Best Experimental Short OUTFEST 2013

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family 20min 2011 dir: Rachel Mayeri
First film created for Chimpanzee audience
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2013
Official Selection Berlinale 2013
Art Electronica Festival – WINNER Hybrid Art
Los Angeles Film Festival 2014
Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Liverpool, UK, Spring 2011
The Arts Catalyst, London, UK, Fall 2011

Rookie and the Runner 20 min HD video, Dir: Augie Robles
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012
Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012

THE FICKLE 5 min, 2011, Dir: Bryan Poyser, Prod: Megan Gilbride, RSA Films,
USA Networks Broadcast 2011

Mouse’s Birthday 10min 2010, Dir: Barry Morse, Prod: Matt Johnstone, World of Wonder Studios
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Newfest New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Wake 15 min, Super 16 / color 2003, Dir: Keun-pyo Park
Winner ASC Charles B. Lang Heritage Award 2005 – PJ Raval
Winner Eastman Kodak Award Grand Prize 2004 – Kuen-pyo Park
WinnerAustin Film Festival Best Short 2004
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2005

Sophie 30 min. 16mm / color, 2002 Hellion Productions, Dir: Helen Haeyoung Lee
Winner Student Academy Award, 2002
Winner Best Cinematography, Cinematexas 2002
Grand Jury Prize – Urbanworld Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize – Nextframe Film Festival
Best Short Film – Bermuda International Film Festival
Best Short Film – Palm Springs International Film festival
Triump Award – Angeles Awards Student Film Festival

Back Roads 10min HD video, Oversoul films, Writer/Director: Brian Scofield
Official selection: New Filmmakers New York Film Anthology Archives

share the wealth 10 min, 35mm / color 2006 Trickster Films, Dir: Bennie Klain

chickenfüt 20 min, super-16 / color 2006, Dir: Harrison Witt
Winner “Best Short Film” Salento Fear Fest 2007

Evil Twinkie 5 min, 35mm, 2005, Jeffrey Travis Prod. Dir: Jeffrey Travis
Feb 2005 air date on WB / NBC following “Saturday Night Live”

Bunny and Clydo 15 min, Super 16, 2004 Brilliant Blue Pictures , Dir: Rocky Jo
Winner Audience Award Short Shorts Film Festival Asia
Winner “Best Editing” at the Sacramento Film Festival
Winner “Best Short Feature” at the Hollywood FirstGlance Film Festival

Attack of the Monster Bride 20 min. 2005 Billy Films, Dir: Vicky Boone
“Winner McMullin-Sullivan Founders Award for Outstanding Filmmaking”
Out Takes Dallas 2005
“Best of the Best” HGLIFF 9 Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005

Gretchen and the Night Danger 20 min. 2003 Flatnap Prod. Dir: Steve Collins
Winner Best Short – SXSW Film Festival 2004
Winner Gecko Award Cinematexas International Film Festival 2003

land locked 25 min. super-16, 2002 Landlocked Prod. Dir: Mark W. Jones
Winner Best Cinematography, Cinematexas 2002
Winner Betty Nowlin Award for Excellence in Filmmaking Cinematexas 2002

Peeling 12 min. 16mm, 2001 little chicken films, Dir: Heidi Bollock
Winner Best Cinematography, Cinematexas 2002
Winner Betty Nowlin Award for Excellence in Filmmaking 2002

Dance Club 15 min. 16mm, 2000, Dir: Maggie Carey
Winner Audience Award – Austin Film Festival 2002

Pillowfight 5 min. 16mm, 2000, Dist: Atom Films, Dir: Scott Rice,
Showtime Broadcast, Fall 2001
Slam Dance 2001
Winner Jury Prize, American Short Shorts, Japan, 2000
Winner Grand Jury Prize, Westfest 2001
Winner Indy Award, Indiana Film and Video Festival
Winner Best Narrative Film, Convergence International Arts Festival
Winner Luminaria Award for Best Cinematography, Westfest 2001

 

SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Criterion Collection – Terrence Malick’s BADLANDS – 2012 dir: Kim Hendrickson
Interview with Sissy Spacek, Jack Fisk

Arab American Stories, Episode: Hanan Alattar, PBS & Detroit Public Television
prod/dir: Alicia Sams 2012

Sunshine “Single Dads” – prod/dir: Karen Skloss
            PBS online shorts 2012

 

DOCUMENTARY – additional photography
  
Winnebago Man Prod/Dir: Ben Steinbauer, Prod: Joel Heller
WINNER Audience Award CiveVegas Film Festival 2009
WINNER Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival 2009
WINNER Grand Jury Award Edmonton International Film Festival
Official Selection SXSW 2009

Sunshine – prod/dir: Karen Skloss
PBS Independent Lens broadcast 2010
Official Selection SXSW 2009

The Devil Came on Horseback prod/dir: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2007
Winner Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Full Frame/Working Films Award,
Seeds of War Award
Winner Silverdocs Witness Award 2007

Money and Medicine video, 2006 prod: Roger Weisberg, dir: Heather Courtney
Additional photography for Texas portion.
PBS POV broadcast Fall 2008

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars 16mm / video Mobilus Media, Prod: Karen Bernstein, Dir: Ellen Spiro
Alberta Segment and various 16mm shots
PBS broadcast, Independent Lens 2004 

Girl Wrestler 30 min. mini-dv, 2001 Prod / Dir: Diane Zander
Dallas tournaments
PBS Independent Lens broadcast 2004
Official Selection SXSW 2003

 

NON-LINEAR/ INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE ART:

A Day in the Life of BLIS installation 20min USA, Germany, Mexico, Holland 2014
Director: Wu Tsang
Made in L.A. Hammer Museum Biennale– Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA
Moved by the Motion – Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Isabella Bortolozzi Berlin, Germany

These Are The Days 6 min. film instalton/ color, 2009 Dir: Matt Stokes
ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY 2009
The Gainsborough Packet, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
The Gainsborough Packet, &c., 176, London
Arthouse Jones Center, Austin, TX 2009

Sum 30 min. dv / color, 2003 dir: William Pope.L
Performance for Arthouse Jones Center, Austin TX 2003

Look of Love – A Gothic Romance 19 min. super-8 / video 1998
Dir: Suzie Silver
Distributor: Video Data Bank

 

MUSIC VIDEOS

Golden Age of Hustlers
Artist: Justin Vivian Bond, Directors: Silas Howard, Erin Greenwell

Mini-Knee
Artist: Total Unicorn, Director: Stephen Fishman

Feeling Like A Million Bucks
Artist: Nook, Director: Mike Henry

I wish
Artist: Candie Payne, Director: Jacqueline Passmore

Don’t Bury Me…I’m Still Not Dead
Artist: the Riverboat Gamblers,
Director: Chris Rose, Super!Alight!

A is not the Song for the World
Artist: the Castanets, Director: Ivonne Loyola

God Bless This Town
Artist: Wade Bowen, Director Matheson Muir, Revelator Productions
CMT Top 10 Videos

 

TV EPISODES & WEB SERIES 

Arab American Stories, Episode: Hanan Alattar, PBS & Detroit Public Television
prod/dir: Alicia Sams 2012

ESPN 30for30 Fernano Nation 2010
Rollin’ Deep Productions, Dir: Cruz Angeles, Prod: James Lawler

Nature Magazine – segment: Male Pregnancy in Seahorses and Pipefish 2010
Small Mammal Productions, Dir: John Pavlus

Secret Lives of Women
WE Entertainment, Dir: Joey Allen – Pangolin Pictures
Episode: Sideshow Gals, Season 4, Episode 2

Keeping Time: New Music from America’s Roots – Sundance Channel Series 11th Floor Productions
“Art of Song” episode prod / dir: Julian Garcia
Bloodshot Records Showcase prod / dir: Alicia Sams
Winner of the Telly Award for BEST MUSIC program  

Back Pack Picnic
On Networks, Dir: René Pinnell
Episodes: Suppression Bakery, Spin, Misguided Tour, Huge and Blurry, Suppression Prequel, Gay Adoption, Suppression Sequel, Hypothetical Stuff, Hey Hey, Kid-Puter Korner Science sucks, Cyclops Eye, Kid-Puter Korner – Sojourner Truth

Scriptcops – Season 2
Sass Factory, Dir: Scott Rice
Episodes: Altercation, Bar Fight, Bike Chase, Break In, Man Hunt, Scared Straight, Seizure, Stand Off