Halyna Hutchins

Known for CameraBorn 1979-04-09Died 2021-10-21Horodets, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna

To the New Girl

Alec Baldwin: Unscripted

Good Bad Luck

Treacle

(re)UNITE

Blindfire

Rust

A Late Quartet

I Am Normal

A Luv Tale

Sunday's Child

I Got the Hook Up 2

Singularity Song

Hidden

The Mad Hatter

Darlin'

Archenemy

Crossing Point

BBC News America

Snowbound

Stealth

The Case Against Alec Baldwin

Forgive Me

Kings Boulevard

GAIA

Labor

The Providers

Divination

The girls I know... get their hands dirty.

The Secret of Joy

Sizzle

The Lotus Gun

Down the Rabbit Hole

Dustland

Creedy and the Bee

On Dragon's Wings

Shakespeare Uncensored

The Family Business

Al's Brand