Halyna Hutchins
Born: 1979-04-09 in Horodets, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Died: 2021-10-21
Known For: Camera
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.
Filmography
2025
- Rust ... (Director of Photography)
- Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna as Self (archive footage)
2024
- The Case Against Alec Baldwin as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Good Bad Luck ... (Director of Photography)
2021
- The Mad Hatter ... (Director of Photography)
- I Am Normal ... (Director of Photography)
- A Luv Tale ... (Director of Photography)
- Alec Baldwin: Unscripted as Self (archive footage)
- Sunday's Child ... (Director of Photography)
2020
- Blindfire ... (Director of Photography)
- Archenemy ... (Director of Photography)
- To the New Girl ... (Gaffer)
2019
- Darlin' ... (Camera Operator)
- Forgive Me ... (Director of Photography)
- Treacle ... (Director of Photography)
- Kings Boulevard ... (Director of Photography)
- I Got the Hook Up 2 ... (Additional Photography)
2018
2017
- The Providers ... (Director of Photography)
- Snowbound ... (Director of Photography)
- Singularity Song ... (Director of Photography)
2016
- Crossing Point ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- Divination ... (Director of Photography)
- The girls I know... get their hands dirty. ... (Camera Operator)
- The Secret of Joy ... (Director of Photography)
2015
- Stealth ... (Electrician)
- The Lotus Gun ... (Assistant Camera)
- Sizzle ... (Key Grip)
- Hidden ... (Director of Photography)
2014
- Dustland ... (Second Assistant Camera)
- Down the Rabbit Hole ... (Director of Photography)
2012
- A Late Quartet ... (Intern)
- Shakespeare Uncensored ... (Gaffer)
- Creedy and the Bee ... (Director of Photography)
- On Dragon's Wings ... (Thanks)
2010
- The Family Business as Pavla
2007
- BBC News America as Self (archive footage)