Halyna Hutchins

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Halyna Hutchins

Camera April 9, 1979

Horodets, 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 feat…

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A Late Quartet

A Late Quartet

6.7 2012 Movie
Rust

Rust

6.8 2024 Movie
Archenemy

Archenemy

5.2 2020 Movie
Darlin'

Darlin'

5.3 2019 Movie
BBC News America

BBC News America

5.2 2007 TV Show
Blindfire

Blindfire

6.8 2020 Movie
The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter

5.3 2021 Movie
Crossing Point

Crossing Point

5.1 2016 Movie
I Got the Hook Up 2

I Got the Hook Up 2

5.6 2019 Movie
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna

Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna

9.0 2025 Movie
Snowbound

Snowbound

4.0 2017 Movie
A Luv Tale

A Luv Tale

6.1 2021 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2024
    Rust

    Movie Director of Photography

  3. 2024
    The Case Against Alec Baldwin

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  4. 2023
    Good Bad Luck

    Movie Director of Photography

  5. 2021
    Alec Baldwin: Unscripted

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  6. 2021
    A Luv Tale

    TV show Director of Photography

  7. 2021
    Sunday's Child

    Movie Director of Photography

  8. 2021
    I Am Normal

    Movie Director of Photography

  9. 2021
    The Mad Hatter

    Movie Director of Photography

  10. 2020
    Archenemy

    Movie Director of Photography

  11. 2020
    Blindfire

    Movie Director of Photography

  12. 2020
    To the New Girl

    Movie Gaffer

  13. 2019
    Forgive Me

    Movie Director of Photography

  14. 2019
    Darlin'

    Movie Camera Operator

  15. 2019
    I Got the Hook Up 2

    Movie Additional Photography

  16. 2019
    Treacle

    Movie Director of Photography

More credits
  1. 2019
    Kings Boulevard

    Movie Director of Photography

  2. 2018
    (re)UNITE

    Movie Director of Photography

  3. 2018
    Labor

    Movie Director of Photography

  4. 2018
    GAIA

    Movie Director of Photography

  5. 2017
    Singularity Song

    Movie Director of Photography

  6. 2017
    Snowbound

    Movie Director of Photography

  7. 2017
    The Providers

    Movie Director of Photography

  8. 2016
    The girls I know... get their hands dirty.

    Movie Camera Operator

  9. 2016
    Crossing Point

    Movie Second Unit Director of Photography

  10. 2016
    The Secret of Joy

    Movie Director of Photography

  11. 2016
    Divination

    Movie Director of Photography

  12. 2015
    Hidden

    Movie Director of Photography

  13. 2015
    The Lotus Gun

    Movie Assistant Camera

  14. 2015
    Sizzle

    Movie Key Grip

  15. 2015
    Stealth

    Movie Electrician

  16. 2014
    Down the Rabbit Hole

    Movie Director of Photography

  17. 2014
    Dustland

    Movie Second Assistant Camera

  18. 2012
    Shakespeare Uncensored

    Movie Gaffer

  19. 2012
    A Late Quartet

    Movie Intern

  20. 2012
    On Dragon's Wings

    Movie Thanks

  21. 2012
    Creedy and the Bee

    Movie Director of Photography

  22. 2010
    The Family Business

    Movie Pavla

  23. 2007
    BBC News America

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  24. —
    Al's Brand

    Movie Director of Photography