FilmLight has introduced the primary set of creatives lined as much as choose the 2025 FilmLight Color Awards, together with South Korean movie director, screenwriter and producer, Park Chan-wook, who has been named the 2025 Visitor of Honor; Firm 3 founder/CEO, Stefan Sonnenfeld; Apple+’s The Studio cinematographer, Adam Newport; and plenty of others.
Now in its fifth 12 months, the FilmLight Color Awards have rapidly develop into a world platform for recognizing excellence and artistry in colour grading. The 2025 version will as soon as once more culminate in a ceremony held at EnergaCamerimage in November, celebrating the work of colorists throughout six classes: Theatrical Function, Tv Collection/Episodic, Business, Music Video, Rising Expertise and Highlight. Submissions shut on July 31.
2025’s Visitor of Honor Chan-wook, is understood for his visible storytelling and genre-defying narratives. His movies embody Oldboy, The Handmaiden and Choice to Go away.
“It’s a privilege to be Visitor of Honor at this 12 months’s awards,” says Park Chan-wook. “Coloration isn’t just a visible aspect. It carries tales, traits, concepts and even musical components like concord, counterpoint, rhythm and tone. It might probably additionally create the phantasm of contact or odor. That’s why I by no means wish to go away the colorist’s room. How fantastic would it not be if I may maintain engaged on the colour of a single challenge for years.”
Additionally becoming a member of this 12 months’s panel is Firm 3‘s Sonnenfeld, one of the crucial influential colorists working right this moment. Identified for his collaborations with main administrators throughout movie and promoting, Sonnenfeld brings deep experience and business perspective. His portfolio contains iconic franchises comparable to Star Wars, Star Trek, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers and extra just lately Superman and F1.
FilmLight has additionally named the next worldwide expertise in its first wave of confirmed jurors:
Bojana Andrić, SAS – Cinematographer and VP of the Serbian Society of Cinematographers. Andrić has labored on characteristic movies comparable to Comply with Me, Love Cuts and Candy Sorrow. Her TV credit embody Path of the Beast, Pupin, Clinch and Andrija & Andjelka.
Douglas Dutton – Paris-based freelance colorist, Dutton works throughout commercials, music movies, sequence and video video games. In 2024, he gained the FilmLight Color Award within the Rising Expertise class for his work on the Baltic Harmonical Diffraction business.
Sylvester Fonseca, ISC – Indian cinematographer with over a decade of expertise throughout promoting, cinema and OTT. His work contains Amar Singh Chamkila‘s Kennedy (Cannes 2023), and initiatives like Lust Tales, Sacred Video games and Island Metropolis (Venice 2015). His promoting work contains campaigns for Fevicol, Dream11 and Ariel’s viral #ShareTheLoad. In 2024, he gained his second Filmfare Award and was inducted into the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC).
Callan Inexperienced, ACS, NZCS – This New Zealand–born cinematographer has over 27 years of expertise. His latest credit embody No person 2, The Beekeeper 2, and several other episodes of Netflix’s The Gents. He was named New Zealand Cinematographer of the Yr in 2024.
Philip Hambi – A commercials colorist at Absolute in London, Hambi has labored with a number of the business’s most celebrated administrators and cinematographers for world manufacturers together with Nike, Glenmorangie, Martini, Samsung, BMW, Lexus, Meta and Google. He collected his third Silver Arrow and third D&AD awards in 2025 for his contribution to Wealthy Corridor’s Riyadh Season movie, Crawford Vs Madrimov: The whole lot Or Nothing.
Kim Ji-yong – South Korean cinematographer and director is understood for his visible fashion and collaborations with administrators like Park Chan-wook and Hwang Dong-hyuk. He’s finest identified for his latest work on Netflix’s sequence, Squid Recreation, as effectively as movies like Choice to Go away, A Bittersweet Life and The Fortress.
Nadia Khairat Gomez – This freelance colorist, primarily based between Berlin and Madrid, works internationally throughout narrative, business and music video codecs. Gomez gained the 2024 FilmLight Color Award within the Music Video class for Brodka x Igo – Myślę sobie Ż, praised for its daring, emotional palette.
Petra Korner, AAC – A cinematographer primarily based in Europe and the US, Korner’s credit span high-end TV dramas comparable to A Discovery of Witches (Sky), His Darkish Supplies (HBO) and Shadow and Bone (Netflix), in addition to characteristic movies together with The Wackness, The Informers and Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take.
Andrea Leigh – Canadian-born senior colorist at Harbor, Leigh’s credit span main studio movies comparable to Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium and Chappie; Immaculate; Nightbitch; in addition to indies such Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos. Current credit embody Sirens by Molly Smith Metzler and Piece by Piece by Morgan Neville.
Fady Melek – A senior colorist primarily based in Latin America and with over 20 years’ expertise, Melek is finest identified for his work the official FIFA World Cup music video clips, comparable to Dreamers, and with over 30 characteristic movies graded worldwide.
Frida Marzouk, AFC – A cinematographer whose worldwide trajectory — from France to the US and throughout North Africa and the Center East — combines technical expertise with an emotional visible method. Her work spans compelling narrative and documentary cinema.
Adam Newport-Berra – This cinematographer and director is finest identified for his work on The Studio, The Bear (pilot), Euphoria (Season 1) and his breakthrough characteristic, The Final Black Man in San Francisco.
The remaining jury will likely be introduced within the coming months.
