Relatives of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer tragically killed on the Albuquerque set of Western Rust, have come out in support of the film, encouraging movie lovers to see it.
Olga Solovey, the DP’s mother, said, ” watched my daughter’s stunning film twice. I was so happy for the success of my daughter because it was filmed so beautifully. I would want everybody to watch it because it was the dream of my daughter and she would want people to see it.”
Solovey continued, “I would want people to see the talent, the beauty, the success, and I’m just so immensely proud of [Halyna]. She had a very specific style of cinematography and she saw the world differently. She could see and capture how the sun sets and how animals behaved. She saw the beauty of it all. She could capture it. She could capture nature. I like the film. I want many people to watch it, and I would want more people to remember her for as long as they can.”
Also expressing her support of the project in a statement released on Friday was Hutchins’ sister, Svetlana Zemko, who said, “The film is amazing, very beautiful and colorful, the shots are just amazing, the composition, the light, even the weather in the frame transfers through the screen.”
Finding the film “brilliant,” Zemko said that “everyone should see Gala’s work; this is high professionalism and high-level artistry. The film is strong. I would want Gala to be remembered not for the tragedy but for her talent and hard work.”
(Gala, we’re told, is a common diminutive for the name Galina, which is the Ukrainian transliteration of the name Halyna.)
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