Sandi Sissel (A.S.C. / American Society of Cinematographers) is an American Director of photography.
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Sandi Sissel began her career as a cinematographer at NBC and ABC where she received two Emmy awards on Her Majesty's Britannia and coverage of the war in Vietnam. During the 70's and 80's she shot countless segments for ABC's 20/20, Saturday Night Live and 60 minutes.
Sandi served as Director Of Photography on the Oscar nominated motion picture Salaam Bombay which also received the Camera D'Or at Cannes. In addition she photographed Yellow Card, Barney's Great Adventure, Drug Wars, Soul Of The Game, The Reef, Camp Nowhere, Full Eclipse, Double Switch, Drop Dead Fred, Drag Strip Girl, The People Under The Stairs, Passion's Way, New York Minute, and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns.
Among her numerous Oscar and Emmy winning documentary credits are Seeing Red, The Wobblies, Americas In Transition, Mother Teresa, Jane Goodall: Chimps So Like Us, Blood In The Face, Chicken Ranch, Broken Treaty At Battle Mountain, Krik Krak Tales Of A Nightmare, Calling The Shots, Speaking Our Peace, Heavy Petting, Chisholm 72: Unbought and Unbossed, Free Angela, Witness To War, Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry, Lord God Bird, One Heartbeat and Before Stonewall. She received a Bafta nomination for her work on The Endurance. She photographed the Imax film Roving Mars.
She has done 2nd unit photography on major films including Uncle, Dangerous Minds, Black Knight, Exit Wounds, Rock Star, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Roommates, Daredevil, Stealing Harvard, The Believers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Allan Quartermain and The City of Lost Gold, The Ballad Of Jack and Rose, Blow, Cellular and the Oscar winning Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World. She also received a Satellite Award nomination for Master and Commander.
In addition she has been Director Of Photography on several network television and mini-series including Class Of 96, The Flash, Young Americans, Matt Waters, Philly Heat, Night Stalker, Night Sins and two Emmy winning shows Wonder Years and Drug Wars: The Camarana Story. Among her cable and television movie credits are In The Echo, Toothless, Suddenly, Radiant City, Great Mom Swap, Dad, The Angel and Me, In The Company Of Darkness, Keeping Secrets, It's Nothing Personal and For Richer, For Poorer.
Sandi directed Chicken Ranch which won Sundance and Bafta awards in addition to Highwire, Cowgirls, Looking Good America and HBO's Nerve: Natacha Merritt.
In 1994 Sandi received the Kodak Crystal Award for lifetime achievement from Women In Film. She has appeared in the films Visions Of Light, Shooting Women and Women Behind The Lens.
Sandi is a member of the International Photographers Guild Local 600 and Women In Film. She was inducted into the American Society Of Cinematographers in 1994 and the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2004.
Sandi presently serves as Head of Cinematography in the graduate film program at New York University.
FILMOGRAPHY
Feature Films
SALAAM BOMBAY Mira Nair Cinecom
MEET THE BROWNS Tyler Perry Lionsgate Films
YELLOW CARD John Riber Rory Killalea/MFD
SOUL OF THE GAME Kevin Sullivan Mike Medavoy/HBO
THE REEF Robert Alan Ackerman Freyda Rothstein/Hearst
CAMP NOWHERE Jonathon Prince Michael Peyser/Disney
FULL ECLIPSE Tony Hickox David Ginsberg/HBO
DOUBLE SWITCH Mary Lambert Tom Zito/Digital Pix
RISING SON John Coles Fred Berner/TNT
NO SECRETS Deszo Magyar Morgan Mason/Columbia/RCA
DROP DEAD FRED Ate DeJong Paul Webster/Working Title
HEAVY PETTING Obie Benz DeLaurentis Film Group
BARNEY'S GREAT ADVENTURE Steve Gomer Martha Chang/Polygram
THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS Wes Craven Maryann Maddelana/Universal
DRAG STRIP GIRL Mary Lambert Showtime Films
2nd Unit
MASTER AND COMMANDER Peter Weir & David Ellis Duncan Henderson/Fox
MR & MRS. SMITH Simon Crane Eric McCleod/Fox
NEW YORK MINUTE Dennie Gordon Chris Sacani/Warner Bros
CELLULAR David Ellis Doug Curtis/New Line
UNCLE Bruce McCulloch Brian Grazer/Imagine
BLACK KNIGHT Gil Junger Paul Schif/Fox
EXIT WOUNDS David Ellis Joel Silver/Warner Bros.
R-3 Betty Thomas Jenna Topping/Revolution
ROCK STAR David Ellis Paul Moen/Warner Bros.
BLOW Ted Demme Georgia Kokandes/New Line
BOWFINGER Frank Oz Bernie Williams/Universal
DANGEROUS MINDS John N. Smith Hollywood Pictures
MOD SQUAD Scott Silver David Ladd/MGM
ROOMATES Peter Yates Ira Halberstadt/Interscope
THE BELIEVERS John Schlesinger Orion
AUSTIN POWERS: The Spy Who Shagged Me Jay Roach Eric McCleod/Warner Bros
PLATOON Oliver Stone Arnold Kopelson
Television
WONDER YEARS series multi Black/Marlens/ABC
CLASS OF 96 series multi Leonard Goldberg/Fox
NIGHTSTALKER series multi Dreamworks/ABC
YOUNG AMERICANS series Kevin Sullivan Greg Prange/Sony
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