Foerster: Gives Shakespeare a contemporary edge

Anna FoersterRole model: "Anything in character."Film or digital: "It was once film however it's digital."Favorite tool: "Atmospheric smoke."Representation: Claire Best & Affiliates"Anonymous," Roland Emmerich's whimsical undertake nobody authored Shakespeare's plays, might be Anna Foerster's first feature like a d.p., however the 41-year-old German-born, L.A.-based director-cinematographer was a lot more than ready to accept reins.Having a expertise which includes blue/eco-friendly screen visual effects work and underwater and aerial photography, she has been working together with Emmerich on his large-scale, effects-driven projects since "Independence Day," which she led visual effects photography, and labored her in place to second-unit director/d.p. on his "10,000 B.C." and "The Next Day Of Tomorrow.""But ironically, when Roland requested me to complete 'Anonymous,' I'd really left cinematography behind to target more about pointing," states Foerster, who's been helming CBS' "Criminal Minds" and "Memorable" in NY. "I'd desired to exercise into pointing, when i found myself within this strange situation -- many people were not confident about me d.p.'ing a little feature because they assumed I only understood how you can do these humongous films, and also the large studio movies were really like, 'But she's never done first unit.' Yet people completely reliable me having a pointing job."Despite all of this, Foerster, whose second-unit credits include "Aeon Flux" and "Manley Family Trip,Inch immediately leaped at the opportunity to shoot "Anonymous." "I really like dealing with Roland, also it would be a great project, partially because we'd the chance to shoot the very first film ever using the Arri Alexa. It had been a large challenge, because it was the prototype, however i contacted it as being whether it would be a new film stock. So that as it had been a period of time piece, we're able to really make use of the natural candlelight and firelight due to the camera's amazing low-light abilities."Together with her go back to cinematography, she has been "inundated" with increased purports to d.p. "And I'll carry on doing it, but things i expect to do to any extent further is both direct and d.p., with respect to the project," she states.Foerster also intends to carry on doing both film and television projects. "I call TV boot camping," she states, "due to the rate you need to work on, however it can certainly help your film work -- and the other way around.InchTruck: "Anonymous"Go back to 10 Cinematographers to look at Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com