Community Newsletter: July 2023 - Welcome Home 🎥🏡

Community Newsletter: July 2023 - Welcome Home 🎥🏡

WELCOME   HOME 🎥🏡   BOOK NOW       RENT TODAY          LOGLINE: Spending the night in her car, a newly-homeless woman wrestles with exhaustion, her crumbling marriage, and the threat of...
June 2023 Newsletter: Hey, June! 🌈🎵🎥

June 2023 Newsletter: Hey, June! 🌈🎵🎥

HEY, JUNE! 🌈🎵🎥   READ OUR RECAP       RENT TODAY       LEARN MORE          The new family comedy “Adult Children”, produced by Angie Gaffney, follows four adult siblings...
Pogi Studios Champions Kindness and Visibility

Pogi Studios Champions Kindness and Visibility

They first met at lunch in high school. “We didn’t really talk until this one time we were in the Philippines at the same time for separate reasons,” JP Quindara says. “I was like ‘yo, let’s...
How a 4.48 Psychosis Production Brought Cinema to the Stage

How a 4.48 Psychosis Production Brought Cinema to the Stage

This run of 4.48 Psychosis was staged in February 2023 at Color Club. The production had filmed projections, which were created by sponsored Camera Ambassador equipment.     Still from the 4.48 Psychosis projections | Texas Smith   ...
Live, Laugh, and Learn: Advice from Past Community Builders Grant Winners & Judges

Live, Laugh, and Learn: Advice from Past Community Builders Grant Winners & Judges

The Community Builders Grant launched in 2019, with the vision of “helping build bridges between filmmakers and the community while elevating their production by arming them with the necessary tools to create”.    Now in...
Ashley C Battle Breaks the Rules

Ashley C Battle Breaks the Rules

“Like every other kid that was born in the late eighties, early nineties, I was watching a ton of television music videos… MTV, BET…” Ashley rattles off. Ashley Battle is a director and director of...
George Ellzey Jr. Transcends the Limits

George Ellzey Jr. Transcends the Limits

George Ellzey Jr. was always a lover of stories. He was raised in Chicago by a single mother. They didn’t have a lot of money. Whenever his mother wanted to treat her children to a...
Sony Venice Review

Sony Venice Review

The Sony Venice is available for rentals from Camera Ambassador.   We’ve invited Camera Ambassador Operations Manager Matt Carroll to review the Sony Venice from his own experiences as a DP. Enjoy!   A Sony...
The Call Sheet Magazine Launches!

The Call Sheet Magazine Launches!

The Call Sheet magazine is available to read online now!   The Call Sheet magazine has officially launched! As the brainchild of Erica Duffy (CEO and Founder of Camera Ambassador) and Rebecca Martin Fagerholm (Editor...
CA Staff Picks: Maggie Jakopac

CA Staff Picks: Maggie Jakopac

We recently connected with Camera Ambassador Tech Intern Maggie Jakopac about her favorite camera package! Having worked with several different kinds of cameras, lenses, and gear overall, Maggie let us know what her favorite camera...
Rosaleah Gonzalez Does What She Loves

Rosaleah Gonzalez Does What She Loves

When Rosaleah Gonzalez toured the campus that would eventually become her college, she wanted to study gaming development....   “I grew up playing a bunch of video games,” she says, “but my mom was like...
Troy Gueno: From VHS to Venice with Chance the Rapper

Troy Gueno: From VHS to Venice with Chance the Rapper

Being an award-winning director and cinematographer might be the sole bragging point for many. But, for Troy Gueno, he isn’t in love with how the titles sound.  “It’s a little too grand for me,” he admits.Yet,...