Davon Slininger

La La Land (2016)
Film by Dir: Damien Chazelle / Lionsgate (Comedy, Drama, Musical and Romance) Camera Operator / 2nd Unit DP Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. Written by Eirini

Surrogate (2016)
Film by Dir: Olivia Hamilton (Comedy, Drama and Drama) Cinematographer Two estranged best friends reach a breaking point when one is the pregnancy surrogate for the other.

Joy (2015)
Film by Dir: David O. Russell / Annapurna Pictures (Biography, Comedy and Drama) 2nd Unit DP JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy's inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces. Jennifer Lawrence stars, with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, and Virginia Madsen. Like David O. Russell's previous films, Joy defies genre to tell a story of family, loyalty, and love. Written by 20th Century Fox

Manson Family Vacation (2015)
Film by Dir: J. Davis / Duplass Brothers Productions (Comedy, Drama and Thriller) Camera Operator Two brothers tour Charles Manson murder sites. One is a devoted family man. One is devoted to The Family.

American Hustle (2013)
Film by Dir: David O. Russell / Annapurna Pictures (Crime and Drama) Camera Operator A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Promised Land (2012)
Film by Dir: Gus Van Sant / Focus Features (Drama) Camera Operator Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally. Written by Focus Features

Lycka till och ta hand om varandra (2012)
Film by Dir: Jens Sjögren / Film i Väst, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Acne Film (Comedy and Drama) 1st Assistant Camera Alvar is a pensioner who hides his guilt by "constructing" fictitious memoirs. By chance he meets Miriam, a socially tone deaf and obstinate teenager, and they become friends. Their friendship deepens when they begin to inspire downhearted people with public art, and comes to a head when they themselves have to blossom. Written by Acne Film

About Cherry (2012)
Film by Dir: Stephen Elliott / IFC Films (Drama) 2nd Assistant Camera The eighteen year-old Angeline raises money with a session of naked pictures and leaves her alcoholic and dysfunctional parents fleeing to San Francisco with her friend Andrew. They rent a room in the apartment of the gay Paco and Angeline finds a job in a strip club and Andrew in a bookstore. Soon Angeline has a love affair with the drug-addicted lawyer Frances and joins the adult industry making porn. Meanwhile the lesbian director Margaret becomes obsessed on her. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In (2011)
Film (short) by Dir: Adam Berg / Sveriges Television (SVT), Camp David Film (Thriller) 2nd Assistant Camera A man gets a phone call from an acquaintance, asking for help. They must retrieve something lost inside a train tunnel. They must do it in the middle of the night. "In" is an psychological thriller set in the quiet country of Sweden, where people are hiding behind drawn blinds even though the closest neighbor live miles away. A place where you do not know who live in your apartment building or not even the people you play hockey with every week. We follow the two men into the darkness as they are forced to come closer together. And in spite of all confinement, there is still something left open, an escape, or an abyss, deep down in the dark. Written by Anonymous

Operation: Endgame (2010)
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Beginners (2010)
Film by Dir: Mike Mills / Focus Features (Comedy, Drama and Romance) 2nd Assistant Camera It's 2003. Thirty-eight year old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationship with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family loss. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress. Oliver is hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death and Hal's new outlook on life during that time will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to... Written by Huggo

Starlight Mints (2008)
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The Hitchhiking Game (2008)
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The Japanese Sandman (2008)
Film (short) by Dir: Ed Buhr / Frameline (Biography, Comedy and Drama) Cinematographer At once wryly comedic travelogue and heartbreaking tale of love lost, THE JAPANESE SANDMAN is a visual interpretation of a letter William Burroughs' wrote to Allen Ginsberg in 1953, recounting his travels in Central America. Told through Burroughs' wickedly incisive voice, cocaine snorting in Panama and post-prom hand-jobs in 1931 St. Louis become a meditation on loss, memory and the human condition. Written by Ed Buhr

Maroon 5: Thoughts About Jane (2005)
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Maroon 5: Not Coming Home (2005)
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