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Ruurd M. Fenengawas born and raised in Hilversum, the radio and TV capitol of The Netherlands. His father, Ruurd M. Fenenga Sr. director / cinematographer shooting award winning commercials and documentaries from his film production company in Amsterdam, introduced his two sons - twin-brothers Ruurd and Maarten - to the industry at a very young age. Ruurd Jr. wanted to learn as much as he could about the film-business and the art and craft of cinematography.

Some productions:

There was also a visual training from his father.
I remember watching a movie with my father as a kid; a wide shot of a room with a clock, a c/u of a person, then my father would ask me what time the clock read to train myself in remembering visualization.

After finishing college, Ruurd Jr. started as a trainee at the film laboratory of Cinecentrum in Hilversum. Following this training he worked at the film-equipment rental house of Holland Equipment in Amsterdam where he met a lot of cameramen who he started assisting for on commercials and documentaries.

Always being inspired by the U.S. and its film-industry, Ruurd decided to move to LA when he was 21 years old, earning $35.00 a day as an extra on various features, trying to meet people behind the camera. After putting his name under the 1st.a/c category list of the LA-411, he received a call one day to assist director / cameraman Barry Samson on a music video for the band Bravin. He gave me my first break as a 1st.a/c, camera-operator and DoP. Many years later he shot a movie-trailer for him, a period piece we shot in China. "We brought with us Agfa stock and created a wonderful trailer, which is still on my website called The Grand Canal.

For twelve years, Ruurd Jr. worked as a 1st. assistant-cameraman for DoPs like:


Stuart Dryburgh, ASC ("Boardwalk Empire", The Piano, "Portrait of a Lady")

Bojan Bazelli, ASC (Kalifornia)

Frank Byers, ASC (Twin Peaks)

Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas)

Bill Wages, ASC

James Glennon (About Schmidt), ASC

and his good friend the late Jim Weisiger - Pushing Tin Spec. FX Unit, and assisted cameraman / director Samual Bayer ("Nirvana") DoP / director Roger Tonry for many years on commercials and music videos, if he was not occupying himself on being a focus-puller on features. Ruurd Jr. assisted on more then 30 features, The Rapture, The Hidden (B-camera), are a few of them, and the TV series Twin Peaks, lensed by Frank Byers, ASC.

In order to get more work as a DoP Ruurd started buying the Hollywood Reporter every Tuesday and the Daily Variety every Thursday, Ruurd mailed out 2500 résumés in one year, and received a lot of work from it. From those mailings I also received a phone-call from Kyle Rankin and Efram Potelle, a directors team, then located in Portland, Maine. Kyle called me one evening from Portland, and asked me if I would be interested to shoot the short Pennyweight for them, starring Ray Wise as Mr. Pennyweight, who I knew from working on the TV series of Twin Peaks

Besides winning 6 awards at various filmfestivals in the US, the short also became eligible to be nominated for an Academy Award in 1999.

Ruurd also started lobbying at the AFM (American Film Market) and handed out hundreds of résumés to various producers and directors who where visiting the market. A writer visiting the market admired his effort and asked Ruurd Jr. if he had an agent - at that time he had spoken to a few agencys. The writer introduced me to the agency.

In October 2001 Ruurd attended the Santa Fe HD Workshop, a workshop, taught by Jeff Cree and B.Sean Fairburn, SOC. It was a very technical workshop for someone who has a film background, but I had worked that year in The Netherlands on many ENG camera productions, which helped out a lot. Working as an ENG-cameraman is very different then what I was used to, which where shooting features. Shooting ENG is where you have to let the framing speak the words even more. With that experience it can be applied to features, documentaries and commercials. Its a great experience and a lot of fun to work on.

After shooting the Staatsloterij (State-lottery) commercials for the company Endemol on HD in The Netherlands and a T-Mobile commercial, it was still hard to find a director who was interested in trying out the HD-camera, just to try out a different look using the menus in the HD camera. the black Gamma menu is great, its another tool In order to create more depth of field in the shadow-areas to get a different feel and look.

After a while Ruurd Jr. decided to go to the film festivals of Cannes, Berlin, Emden, Utrecht and Rotterdam to speak to producers and directors to shoot their next project on HD. Ruurd Jr. found there was a lot of interest in shooting on HD at the festivals. Ruurd Jr. also visited a few post production houses and camera rental houses in the UK and visited Michael Brennan at his home in London and was invited to the Wild Screen Film festival in Bristol, where he sat in on the HD panel, and taught fellow cinematographers about the HD camera at the rental facility of Athalys in Brussel. In order to evangelize HD even more, he called up all the HD companys that had anything to do with the manufacturing of HD equipment and set up a web-site called http://www.highdef.nl, sponsored by the largest post production house in The Netherlands called Valkieser. Ruurd also read about a new filter, the Procompfilter, which he wanted to try out and had it fly out from the manufacturing company in London to test this filter with the HD camera and ran the tests with the two post production houses in The Netherlands, his sponsor Valkieser and Ultimate in Hilversum. I loved what the filter did to the depth of field of the picture when I shot this person against a green screen, both post production houses where also very excited with the results.

Ruurd got hired by the Amsterdam based company Postpanic working with director Mischa Rozema on a 10-day-shoot traveling the cities of Madrid, Barcelona and Blackburn (U.K.) using the Sony HDW-F-900 camera, shooting 3 Nike commercials with soccer players van Nistelrooij, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Henry - and finally be shown in the Nike stores throughout most of the world. Ruurd suggested using the Sony SRW-1 Recorder, Which, at the time was not available in The Netherlands, so we had it shipped out from London and instead of using 8-bit on the tape, using the Sony SRW-1 Recorder you have 10-bit of information on the tape. A major image quality enhancement.

Again, Ruurd worked with the directors team Kyle Rankin and Efram Potelle on the black humor web episodes which 2.6 million people have watched over the internet Hellholes

Recently finished the Nokia Project on which he used a lot of negative fill. (More info. + behind the scene pictures on this website).

Since Ruurd is also familiar with shooting Corporate films he received a call from Henk van Mierlo to photograph a film for the Friesland Bank.

During the month of October, 2011 Ruurd organized the "Dag van de Film" ("Day of the Film") for the Koning Willem I College in Den Bosch for more then 80 students. Fellow cameraman Gé Aarts demonstrated cameras and projectors, dating from 1890 until 1930 and introduced the students to the actual equipment in the classroom from over a century ago! Film technician veteran Nico van den Boogaard, demonstrating 35mm cameras - Aaton and Arriflex from 1937 until now and informing the students of the history of the Arriflex camera - with his passion of the technique for motion picture cameras. The students loved it! :-)Next presentation will be the DSLR Canon 5-D Mark II - completing the history of film & current digital cameras.

The presentation was a big succes!

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