A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Havana, Cuba
Born in Havana, Armando Salas, ASC, immigrated to the United States during the Mariel boatlift. His passion for film and journey into cinematography began in his youth in Miami, when he created skateboarding videos and experimented with Super 8 film while studying at the New World School of the Arts. He went on to earn a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, where he pioneered a concentration in narrative film production while cultivating a unique visual language within a diverse fine arts environment. He completed an MFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, gaining recognition as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and winner of the 2002 American Society of Cinematographers Student Heritage Award. Salas honed his skills shooting indie films and commercials before venturing into several acclaimed series and earning an Emmy nomination for the hit show Ozark. Some of his recent projects include The Old Man with Jeff Bridges, the Apple sci-fi thriller Invasion, and Chris Pratt’s action thriller The Terminal List, in which he collaborated with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua on the pilot. Among his upcoming releases are Netflix’s highly anticipated limited series Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara as Griselda Blanco, and the newest Marvel series, Wonder Man. In 2020, Salas was honoured to be accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers. As an ASC member, he has shown commitment to the art of cinema, not only as a mentor to aspiring cinematographers of different backgrounds but also by using his platform to increase awareness of the craft in an ever-changing technological landscape.
Cinematography:
2012 Shanghai Calling
2016 Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Director of Photography:
2006 Cocaine Cowboys
2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2012 Shanghai Calling
2013 My Lucky Star
2014 Jump!
2016 Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2017 Bitch
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
Gaffer:
2006 Cocaine Cowboys
2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2012 Shanghai Calling
2013 My Lucky Star
2014 10,000 Days
2014 Jump!
2016 Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2017 Bitch
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
Second Unit Director of Photography:
2006 Cocaine Cowboys
2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2011 Fertile Ground
2012 Shanghai Calling
2013 My Lucky Star
2014 10,000 Days
2014 Jump!
2016 Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2017 Bitch
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
Director of Photography:
2014 From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
2017 Ozark
2017 SIX
2022 The Terminal List
2024 Griselda
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.