- Sam Longoria
Sam Longoria (born
March 12 ,1956 ) is an American independent filmmaker and formerHollywood visual effects engineer. Longoria began making movies in 1970 at the age of 14. He made a feature-length35 mm film inEnumclaw, Washington , moved to Hollywood in 1978, with occasional film and theatre work in Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago.Longoria's Hollywood work, (frequently uncredited) begins in the 1980s, as a member of the technical crew on films such as "
Ghost Busters ", "2010", "Return to Oz ", and "Captain EO ".In 1985, he photographed President
Ronald Reagan in the White House for a large-format film documentary.In 1992, he created
35 mm projected backgrounds from small-format film and video elements, forPeter Sellars 's production ofPaul Hindemith 's Opera "Mathis der Maler", at London'sRoyal Opera House ,Covent Garden .More recently, Longoria built camera electronics for 1994 film "Terminal Velocity", optically enlarged
Charlie Sheen andMartin Sheen 'sSuper 8 mm home movies for 1999 film "Five Aces", and performed hydraulic special effects on 1997 film "Dante's Peak ", which had thelargest water dump (650,000 gallons, weighing 5.4 million pounds) in cinema history.Longoria is a member of the
Visual Effects Society in Hollywood, and focuses now on making his own films.External links
* [http://samlongoria.com/ Official website]
* [http://samlongoria.blogspot.com/ Longoria's filmmaking blog]
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* [http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/sam-longoria.html Sam Longoria - Libertarian]
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