Artful cinematography by Gavin Kelly

BY BOB FISHER
Put “The Dry Land” on your must see list if you are going to be at Sundance. The film will premiere there on January 24th. Artful cinematography by Gavin Kelly will take you on an intimate journey with a stressed out soldier who returns from the battlefields of Iraq to his family and friends in a small town in Texas.

Kelly is a rising star in the galaxy of cinematographers. Woody Omens, ASC and Judy Irola, ASC were among his mentors while he earned an MFA degree in the film studies program at USC in 2004. Kelly earned an honorable mention in the 2005 American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards student film competition.

He and The Dry Land writer/ director Ryan Piers Williams share a passion for music as well as film. Kelly played the guitar with bands. During their earliest conversations, Kelly and Williams agreed to produce the film with a handheld Super 16 camera that was sometimes moving in a 360 degree arc.

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