April 2024

Drawn into Darkness: Discomfort Meets Tension

“He was one of my closer friend’s roommates, and, over the break, he emailed me,” says Thomas Bolles about film director Ryan McCue, a classmate in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) film school program. “He had a pitch deck and some general ideas laid out. We corresponded back and forth, and eventually he sent me a script.” The screenplay was entitled Drawn into Darkness, and Bolles’ cinematography in the film earned him the 2023 George Spiro Dibie ASC Student Heritage Heritage Award in the Undergraduate Category. Each year, the American Society of Cinematographers names its Student Heritage Awards in honor of departed Society members. An innovative, multi-Emmy-winning cinematographer who was also the president of ICG Local 600 for 20...more