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Pierre Gill

Born January 1, 1964 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada (age 62)

Born in Montreal, Pierre Gill began at the age of 19 with a super-8 camera in his hands. Since he has worked with some of the most respected international directors in cinema and television.

Known For

Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 · 2017

Blade Runner 2049

MovieScience FictionDrama

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Arrival

Arrival · 2016

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Outlander

Outlander · 2008

MovieScience FictionAction

During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.

The Covenant

The Covenant · 2006

MovieFantasyHorror

Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

Upside Down

Upside Down · 2012

MovieRomanceScience Fiction

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

After the Ball

After the Ball · 2015

After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.

The Art of War

The Art of War · 2000

MovieActionThriller

Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threatened to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground — in effect, vanishing from his own life — as he tries to stop what could become World War III.

The Colony

The Colony · 2013

MovieActionScience Fiction

Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

Filmography

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Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 · 2017

Blade Runner 2049

MovieScience FictionDrama

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Second Unit Director of Photography

Arrival

Arrival · 2016

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Additional Photography

Outlander

Outlander · 2008

MovieScience FictionAction

During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.

Director of Photography

The Covenant

The Covenant · 2006

MovieFantasyHorror

Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

Director of Photography

Upside Down

Upside Down · 2012

MovieRomanceScience Fiction

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

Director of Photography

After the Ball

After the Ball · 2015

After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.

Director of Photography

The Art of War

The Art of War · 2000

MovieActionThriller

Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threatened to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground — in effect, vanishing from his own life — as he tries to stop what could become World War III.

Director of Photography

The Colony

The Colony · 2013

MovieActionScience Fiction

Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

Director of Photography

2036: Nexus Dawn

2036: Nexus Dawn · 2017

2036: Nexus Dawn

MovieScience FictionThriller

Niander Wallace introduces a new line of "perfected" replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed.

Director of Photography

Changing Sides

Changing Sides · 2009

Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?

Director of Photography

1922

MovieHorrorCrime

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Director of Photography

2048: Nowhere to Run

2048: Nowhere to Run · 2017

2048: Nowhere to Run

MovieScience FictionThriller

“2048: Nowhere to Run” takes place one year before the events of Blade Runner 2049. The short film focuses on Sapper, a man who is trying to make it through life day-by-day without turning back to his old ways. We’re introduced to both the gentle nature of Sapper and the violence he’s capable of when set off.

Director of Photography

Polytechnique

Polytechnique · 2009

MovieCrimeDrama

A dramatization of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, on December 9, 1989, where 14 female engineering students were murdered (and 13 were wounded) by a 25 year old psychotic misogynist armed with a semi-automatic weapon.

Director of Photography

Lost and Delirious

Lost and Delirious · 2001

Lost and Delirious

MovieDramaRomance

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

Director of Photography

Undercover Grandpa

Undercover Grandpa · 2017

Undercover Grandpa

MovieFamilyComedy

When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former special ops buddies.

Director of Photography

Xchange

Xchange · 2001

MovieScience Fiction

In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the first time unwittingly switches bodies with a terrorist. Forced to hide in a limited life span cloned body with just 2 days remaining, he races against time to stop the terrorist and regain his body.

Director of Photography

The Rocket

The Rocket · 2005

The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

Director of Photography

Los Locos

Los Locos · 1997

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

Director of Photography

Loser Love

Loser Love · 1999

MovieDramaThriller

A young woman decides to get even with her abusive boyfriend.

Director of Photography

Black List

Black List · 1995

MovieThrillerDrama

At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...

Director of Photography

Casanova

Casanova · 2015

MovieDramaTV Movie

Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity and trouble.

Director of Photography

Elephant Song

Elephant Song · 2015

MovieDramaMystery

A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.

Director of Photography

Divorces

Divorces · 2009

MovieComedyRomance

Valentine and Alex are married, both lawyers, specializing in family matters. In the exercise of their profession, they defend the divorce of the XXIst century: amicable, in the serenity and the respect of the other, preferably in alternating custody and in the blended family, far from the cased vases and the atrocious scenes of household of the previous generation. Until the day when, because of a banal adultery, their couple shatters. And the reality of the divorce catches up with them: no more fine words, just war.

Director of Photography

You Will Remember Me

You Will Remember Me · 2022

You Will Remember Me

A retired public figure and history professor begins to lose his memory and must learn to be more discreet as he expresses himself.

Director of Photography

Dune: Prophecy

Dune: Prophecy · 2024

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.

Director of Photography

Transplant

Transplant · 2020

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

Director of Photography

Brilliant Minds

Brilliant Minds · 2024

Brilliant Minds

A rare condition — face blindness — gives an eccentric yet incredibly gifted neurologist a unique perspective on care, fueling his mission to change the way people see his patients. Alongside a team of brilliant young interns, he solves some of the world's most puzzling psychological cases while navigating the complicated relationships that come with the job.

Director of Photography

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc · 1999

Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.

Director of Photography

Runaway

Runaway · 2018

SeriesDramaCrime

The tragic yet hopeful story of Fanny, a young teen from a good suburban home whose life spirals out of control when she falls for a manipulative and abusive man.

Director of Photography

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Hitler: The Rise of Evil · 2003

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

Director of Photography

Ascension

Ascension · 2014

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

In 1963, the U.S. government launched a covert space mission sending hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world. Nearly 50 years into the journey, as they approach the point of no return, a mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s population to question the true nature of their mission.

Director of Photography

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials · 2003

Salem Witch Trials

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.

Director of Photography