Gavin Kelly is an award-winning director of photography who has lensed a wide spectrum of narrative features and shorts, music videos, commercials, documentaries and television projects. His extensive background in visual arts, music, and film has helped him become a distinctive, dynamic visual collaborator.
While in undergraduate studies in Visual Arts at U.C.S.D., Gavin was awarded two Student Emmys for his films. Gavin went on to receive an M.F.A. in film production at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television in 2004.
In 2005 Gavin received the prestigious A.S.C. Charles B. Lang Heritage Award for Outstanding Cinematography, Honorable Mention, from the American Society of Cinematographers, a distinction that celebrates rising new talent in cinematography.
Besides West Bank Story, Gavin's recent credits include the
feature film All The Days Before Tomorrow, an intimate portrayal of the quirky, subtly-developing relationship between two twenty-somethings that spans four international cities. The film's cast includes Shaft star Richard Roundtree.