Awards

LightHouse Films director Camille de Galbert’s experimental short film Simon has to date been screened at more than 30 film festivals around the world, winning Best Film and Best Experimental at the Miami International Short Film Festival, Miami, Florida; as well as Best Experimental Film at Malibu International Short Film Festival, Malibu, California, Big Mini Media Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York and Women’s Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, California. It also earned Best Narrative Short Film at the Blow Up Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois. In addition, LightHouse client director Charlie Mysak was named Best Emerging Director at the One Screen Film Festival (part of The One Club the world's foremost non-profit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising) for his documentary short New Heights, which spotlights the work of the New York-based community organization of the same name and the positive role it played in the lives of three young New Yorkers.

Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC; Vanja Cernjul, ASC, HFS; Pierre Gill, CSC; Adam Arkapaw, ACS; and Mátyás Erdély, HSC earned top honors in the four competitive categories at the 30th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement.

Rodeo FX has won a Visual Effects Society Award for its work on season five of Game of Thrones. The award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode honored the studio’s creation of the city of Volantis. Rodeo FX received the award last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and can add it to the VES Award it won last year for its work on Birdman.