The High Falls Film Festival is proud to present the 2017 Susan B. Anthony “Failure Is Impossible” Award to Nancy Schreiber, ASC in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the art of filmmaking as one of the few female cinematographers in the film and television industry. This award honors a woman in the film industry who has persevered in her career and triumphed over difficulties.
Based in both New York and Los Angeles she was the fourth woman ever voted into membership into the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers and was recently the recipient of the President’s Award from the ASC, the first woman ever to receive this award.
Schreiber is a Detroit native who, after receiving her psychology degree at the University of Michigan, moved to New York, working her way up from production assistant to gaffer to Director of Photography. She has compiled over 130 credits, an eclectic list of narrative film and television credits as well as music videos, commercials and documentaries.
In spite of females representing only 3 percent of cinematographers working today, Schreiber’s career has spanned more than three decades. Her credits include the FX series Better Things, HBO’s The Comeback and the films Your Friends and Neighbors with Ben Stiller, Loverboy directed by Kevin Bacon, with Kyra Sedgwick, Sandra Bullock, and Marissa Tomei, The Nines starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa McCarthy and November starring Courteney Cox.
She landed on Variety’s 10 Cinematographers to Watch, before taking home the coveted Best Cinematography award at Sundance. Schreiber has been nominated for an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award and was presented with the Women In Film Crystal/Kodak Vision Award. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award will be presented on Thursday November 2, in Rochester, New York, the home of George Eastman/Kodak and Susan B. Anthony. Past recipients include Angela Bassett, Rita Moreno, Lynn Redgrave, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Candace Bergen
and Director, Agnieszka Holland.
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Information prepared by Lewis Communications: susan@lewiscommunications.net.