Resume
ARLEDGE ARMENAKI
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
"SURRENDERING IN A CHAMPION'S WORLD"
2003 River Run Film Festival - North Carolina Filmmakers Award
“SURFACING” BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
2001 Marco Island Film Festival - Pelican Award
FEATURE FILMS - Director of Photography
WESLEY Foundry Pictures
SURFACING aka (Spanish Moss) J. Films
CLUB FED Landers Productions
AUNTIE LEE'S Steiner Films
CRACK HOUSE Silverman Ent. / Cannon Releasing
BLACK OUT Ambient Light / Magnum Releasing
HOWLING V Allied Vision / Carolco
OFF THE MARK Fries Ent. / Manson Int.
GRAD NIGHT Charlemagne Prod. / Via Com
MOVIES OF THE WEEK - Director of Photography
DENNIS THE MENACE DIC Ent. / Columbia Television
FORBIDDEN IMAGES Intrusions Prod. / HBO
MUSIC VIDEOS - Director of Photography
Kenny G. “Against Doctor's Orders” Arista Records
Paul Anka "Freedom" Capitol Records
Joan Orleans "Talk of the Town" Blow up Records
Jennifer Rush "Heart Over Mind” CBS
The Controllers "Stay" MCA
Wayne Newton "Danke Schoen” Capitol/PMI
DOCUMENTARY, CORPORATE, AND SHORT FILMS
Director of Photography
SURRENDERING IN A CHAMPION’S WORLD NCSA (Co Director and DP)
MUSIC LESSONS aka THE HUNGER ARTIST SECCA & NCSA
CANCELED LIVES - LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE" Milestone Productions
CONFESSIONS AND FANTASIES Playboy Productions
ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM FMS Productions
POWER OF LOVE Muscular Dystrophy Ass.
ONE ON ONE American Medical Int.
COMMERCIALS - Director of Photography
Capitol Records, Golden Products, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,
Burgermeister Beer, Head Shampoo, KXRX Radio
EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIONS
The Packaging Process, Whiz Kidz, Festival Island, Transamerica Corporation, Pacific National Bank, Genesis Foods, Gun Control, Right Guard, ZDF-TV (German), IBM, Hughes Aircraft, US Navy, Bestline, US Army, CFI Computer Finance Industries, PBS, US Labor Dept., CMX, Food Machinery Corp., US Air Force, Aims Media, MDA, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Clean Seas, Mobile Oil
SECOND UNIT - Director of Photography
SHIFTING GEARS - Alderman Co. / Magnified Prods.
THINK BIG - Motion Picture Corp./ Concord
SLAYER - TIPS / Via Com
DEVIL'S GAMBIT - Cinema Features
DRIBBLE - Intermedia Artist
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
HOT PURSUIT Paramount Pictures
ECHO PARK Shenson Films / Atlantic Releasing
CAMERA OPERATORDAVID HOLT LIVE (TV) PBS – 2016
SHIFTING GEARS Shifting Gears LLC - 2016
ROAR Noel Marshall Prods. (3rd Camera)
GREAT HEART Greatheart Prod. (1st Camera)
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN Stew Paul Prod. (2nd Camera)
THE RIVALS Lyman Dayton Prods. / NBC (3rd Camera)
MICROWAVE MASSACRE Reel Life Prods. (1st Camera)
CAMERA ASSISTANT
SPACE RAIDERS New World Pictures
DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN Paramount Pictures
THE SWORD AND SORCERER Group One Int.
BRAINWASH QUI / Kodiak
PRIVATE LESSONS Barry Enright Prod.
GAFFER
EMMANUEL IV New World Pictures
AWARDS and MERIT ACHIVEMENT
2004 HD EXPO Workshops "VariCamp"
2004 SKYJACK - Certificate of Completion
2001 Kodak Faculty Scholar (Inaugural Grant) University Film and Video Association
2001 Best Cinematography “Surfacing” Marco Island Film Festival
2000 HDTV Digital Cinematography Certificate – Int. Film and Television Workshops
1994 Roy Dean Grant – Fuji Film Corporation
1989 Platinum Record - "Against Doctors Orders" – Sales Award
1987 1st Place - "Power of Love" - New York Fest.
1984 Gold Award - "One on One" - Audio Visual Awards
1978 Scholarship - American Film Institute
1976 1st Place - "Visions of the Sea" - National Educational Film Festival
1974 Scholarship - Brooks Institute of Photography
2005-2018 Associate Professor of Cinematography - Western Carolina University
1995-2005 Filmmaker in Residence – UNCSA, Winston Salem NC
1991-1995 Faculty - Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara CA