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Location: Santa Monica, CA, US

Member Since: Jun 5, 2008

Chop wood, carry water, make film!

Victor Goss: Writer/Director/Cinematographer Victor picked up his first camera when he was 4, wandering Yosemite Valley with an Ansco 620 camera during summer vacation - trying to duplicate the photography (Ansel Adams) hanging in the gift shop at the Ahwanee Hotel. Back home he was hypnotized by the moving image of 35mm film dancing in the arclight of a Simplex projector gate. This was the bedtime story for Victor, as his dad babysat him in the projection booth of their drive-in theater at night. Victor recited nursery rhymes while his dad tested film stocks and new lenses on his Auricon sound-on-film camera used for making newsreels before cable brought network TV to the backwater of the Santa Maria Valley. The poor kid learned how to read by flipping through copies of American Cinematographer Magazine found strewn around the projection booth, and stole candy from the snack bar when his mom was distracted scooping popcorn. When TV finally finished off the drive-in movie business for good, it was no surprise when Victor moved south looking for a career in the L.A. film studios. Running errands as a gopher on an AIP summer beach blanket film and picking up work doing any and every job on the set the youngster skipped a college career and learned how to make films. Victor soon picked up a movie camera of his own and began shooting and directing national TV commercials, and winning important awards. Victor’s background in writing - and commercials - brought him to the hit TV series WONDER YEARS as cinematographer and 2d unit director. The Golden Globe and multiple Emmy-winning GABRIEL’S FIRE (James Earl Jones) followed where Victor - along with a handful of fellow TV commercial making alumni �" brought a visual revolution to dramatic TV that continues to advance this day. A decade of episodic television brought opportunities to develop further cinematography and director chops and to gain the confidence and abilities to shoot difficult schedules - cutting through the fog of production, and delivering exciting stories on-time and on-budget. Victor’s experience with writing, performers, and cinematography through shooting concert films, commercials, and dramatic films - for both television and the big screen - has given him insight into achieving storytelling style and statement with a camera, appropriate to his CINEMA PARADISO upbringing.

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