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Steve Gainer

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Steve Gainer Cinematographer
Steve Gainer at SONY Studios
Born (1962-10-25) October 25, 1962 (age 62)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)cinematographer, director, and producer

Steve Gainer, ASC ASK (born October 25, 1962) is an American cinematographer, director, and producer. He is a member and museum curator of the American Society of Cinematographers, a member of the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

From 1991 to 1994, he was the manager of the Paramount Pictures Corporation film lab, Where he met future director Dave Meyers, who later shot over thirty music videos with him, as well as the feature film Foolish.

Since 1994, he has been director of photography on dozens of films, commercials, and music videos.

In 2013 and 2015, Gainer directed episodes of the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward. In 2014, he won a Daytime Emmy for a PSA based on that series.[1] In 2018 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the Amazon movie An American Girl Story – Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance

Gainer and his wife, Karen, were married on January 22, 2000. The couple have two children Sebastian and Lexi.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Director Notes
1994 Ceremony Joe Castro
1997 Expose Brian Rudnick
Macon County Jail Victoria Muspratt With Harry C. Box
Don't Sleep Alone Tim Andrew
Shadow Dancer Stanley Lee
Stanley Yung
With Michael E.J. Miller
1999 Three Days Kevin Ford
C.B. Smith
Documentary film;
With Kevin Ford and Luke Geissbühler
Road Kill Matthew Leutwyler
Foolish Dave Meyers
Facade Carl Colpaert
2001 Bully Larry Clark
2004 Black Cloud Ricky Schroder
Mysterious Skin Gregg Araki
A Dirty Shame John Waters
2005 Wassup Rockers Larry Clark
2007 You Are Here Henry Pincus
Remember the Daze Jess Bond
2008 While She Was Out Susan Montford
Punisher: War Zone Lexi Alexander
2009 Taking Chances Kit Umbrage With Brian Sweeney
2010 Super James Gunn
Dirty Girl Abe Sylvia
2011 Setup Mike Gunther Direct-to-video
2012 Nature Calls Todd Rohal
2013 A Haunted House Michael Tiddes
2014 Everly Joe Lynch
Catch Hell Ryan Phillippe
2015 Big & Rich: Gravity Long Form Project Trey Fanjoy
2017 Mayhem Joe Lynch
2019 The Last Laugh Greg Pritikin

Short film

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Year Title Director Notes
1996 Trust Games Adam Prince
1998 Luz de la mission Martin Flores With Peter Rieveschl and Mario Zavala
2001 Note come due Jordan Freid
2002 Heroes Johnathon Schaech
2004 Lonely Place Kevin Ackermann
2009 One Night Only Chadd Harbold
2013 The Thread Steven Brill Segments of Movie 43
Victory's Glory Rusty Cundieff
Beezel James Gunn
2018 Day of Reckoning Jeff Wolfe
TBA The Runt Christy Stratton

Television

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TV series

Year Title Director Notes
1997 Click Rolfe Kanefsky
Hamilton Lewiston
Brian Rudnick
Episode "Secrets Revealed"
2008 Camp Rock Freestyle Jam Art Spigel TV short
2009 Sugarland: Live on the Inside Shaun Silva TV special
2011 Awkward 71 episodes;
Also directed episodes "Taking Sides" and "Digging Deep"
2013 Starting Strong
2014 Happyland Ryan Shiraki
Peter Lauer
Rebecca Asher
David Katzenberg
7 episodes
2015 Just Add Magic
2016-2017 Sweet/Vicious Joseph Kahn
Rebecca Thomas
Brian Dannelly
Todd Biermann
Elodie Keene
Andrew Young
All 10 episodes
2017 Will vs. The Future Joe Nussbaum
2019-2020 Schooled All 34 episodes
2021 On My Block Valerie Finkel
Eli Gonda
Lauren Iungerich
4 episodes
2021-2022 Puppy Place All 16 episodes
2022 Life by Ella Christine Lakin
Ryan Shiraki
Juanesta Holmes
Nimisha Mukerji
Aprill Winney
Linda Mendoza
All 10 episodes
2023 With Love Paris Barclay
Kim Nguyen
Eli Gonda
Kabir Akhtar
Season 2

TV movies

Year Title Director Notes
2002 Teenage Caveman Larry Clark
2010 Boys of Fall Shaun Silva Documentary film;
With Blake McClure
2013 Our Wild Hearts Ricky Schroder Also producer
Ladies' Man: A Made Movie Ryan Shiraki
2016 An American Girl Story: Maryellen 1955 - Extraordinary Christmas Valerie Weiss
2017 An American Girl Story: Ivy & Julie 1976 - A Happy Balance Sasie Sealy
An American Girl Story: Summer Camp, Friends for Life Alison McDonald

References

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  1. ^ "Steve Gainer". AOL Moviefone.
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