Lisa Wiegand Explained

Lisa Wiegand
Birth Name:Lisa Marie Wiegand
Birth Date:20 October 1968
Birth Place:Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation:Cinematographer
Years Active:1995–present

Lisa Marie Wiegand, (born October 20, 1968) is an American cinematographer.

Biography

Lisa Marie Wiegand was born in 1968 in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.[1] She graduated in 1989 from Wayne State University, and obtained her MFA in cinematography from UCLA in 1998. In 1995, she received a Master's in Cinematography from the American Film Institute AFI.

In 1997, she attended the Színház-es Filmmûvészeti Foiskola (Academy of Drama and Film, Faculty of Film and Television) in Budapest, Hungary, and UCLA in 1998.

Wiegand started in taking stills and developing them in her father's darkroom as a child. She switched to motion capture when she started shooting local cable TV ads. She went on to direct multi-camera shoots on commercials and industrial films while working at Detroit's Midwest Video.

"Wiegand has been featured, several times, in American Cinematographer Magazine and has been awarded for 'Excellence in Cinematography' by the American Society of Cinematographers."[2]

Wiegand taught cinematography at The American Film Institute, UCLA, and Loyola Marymount University for several years. She also volunteers her skills to the Sundance Institute's Filmmaker's Labs.

2010 she worked on Dollhouse (film), The Assignment, and Mayfly.

Awards

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016Detroiters (TV Movie)
American Crime
2012Chicago Fire
Wedding Band TV series
2011Necessary Roughness
Detroit 1-8-7
2010The Assignment
2009Mayfly
Dollhouse
Sundance Directors Lab
2008My Suicide
Jennie Tran (Not Her Real Name)
Night LifeTelevision
Cornelius
Adventures of Power
2007Ode to Lost Love
Lez Be Friends
Casting Pearls
A Little Night Fright
2006aka Eating Out 2: Different Rocks (USA: DVD box title)
2005The Bulls
Little Athens
Barbara Jean
2004Good Thing
Porno ValleyTV seriesunknown episodes
Cherry Bomb
2003Seventy
Totally Sexy Loser
Storyline OnlineTelevision 3 episodes"Dad, Are You the Toothfairy?"; "The Polar Express"; "When Pigasso Met Mootise"
Scrambled
2002Roberta Loved
Outta Timeaka Out of Time (Europe) & The Courier
2001Fish in a Barrel
2000Odessa
Dean Quixote
1999Boy Next Door
Eastside
Ugly People in LA
1997Shopping for Fangs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LISA WIEGAND. www.cinematographers.nl.
  2. Web site: Lisa Wiegand website..