Halyna Hutchins

1979–2021 · Horodets, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Biography

Halyna Hutchins was a Los Angeles-based union cinematographer who graduated from the AFI conservatory in 2015 and has since established a track record of successful narrative features. Halyna was selected as one of American Cinematographer’s Rising Stars of 2019 as well as a cinematographer for the 21st Century Fox DP Lab in 2018. Born in Ukraine in 1979, Hutchins grew up on a Soviet military base on the Arctic Circle. She attended Kyiv National University and graduated with a degree in international journalism. She worked on British documentary productions as an investigative journalist. Hutchins later to moved to Los Angeles, and in 2018 she was a cinematographer for the 21st Century Fox DP Lab. Hutchins won an award for best cinematography at the 2019 English Riviera Film Festival for “Treacle”. Halyna's life was tragically cut short on October 21, 2021, after Alec Baldwin's prop weapon—mistakenly loaded with a live round—misfired during the production of the western Rust. She was posthumously made an honorary member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) on November 14, 2021.

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2020s

2024
Rust
Director of Photography
57
2023
Good Bad Luck
Director of Photography
2021
A Luv Tale
Director of Photography
Sunday's Child
Director of Photography
I Am Normal
Director of Photography
The Mad Hatter
Director of Photography
34
2020
Archenemy
Director of Photography
57
Blindfire
Director of Photography
54

2010s

2019
Forgive Me
Director of Photography
Darlin'
Camera Operator, Director of Photography
54
I Got the Hook Up 2
Additional Photography
Treacle
Director of Photography
Kings Boulevard
Director of Photography
2018
(re)UNITE
Director of Photography
Labor
Director of Photography
GAIA
Director of Photography
2017
Singularity Song
Director of Photography
Snowbound
Director of Photography
The Providers
Director of Photography
2016
The girls I know... get their hands dirty.
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Crossing Point
Second Unit Director of Photography
51
The Secret of Joy
Director of Photography
Divination
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
2015
Hidden
Director of Photography
The Lotus Gun
Assistant Camera
Sizzle
Key Grip
2014
Dustland
Second Assistant Camera
2012
Creedy and the Bee
Director of Photography