Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS, AM, has been elected President of the ASC. She becomes the first woman to lead the Society since its founding in 1919. Mandy is well known for her work on films such as Elvis, Hidden Figures, and Mulan.
Both the ASC and ACS now have female presidents.
Her work on Elvis earned her Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Cinematography. She also made history by becoming the first woman to receive an ASC Award for feature film cinematography and an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for her work on Elvis.
Mandy was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and she became interested in photography when she was in high school. After graduation, she studied film criticism and cinema studies. She then apprenticed as an unpaid assistant on several documentaries and music videos before shooting her first feature film, Return Home, at the age of twenty-five.
The Board also voted in Vice Presidents Eric Steelberg, John Simmons, and Patrick Cady; Treasurer Charles Minsky; Secretary Dejan Georgevich; and Sergeant-at-Arms Charlie Lieberman.
