ALAR KIVILO - cinematographer Alar Kivilo was born in Montreal. In the early seventies he moved to Toronto, where an early interest in still photography, prompted him to enroll in the York University film program. After one year in the program and five years as a camera assistant, he began his career as a cinematographer, shooting documentaries and short dramas including BOYS AND GIRLS, which won an Oscar in 1984. Kivilo then began shooting music videos which eventually led to commercials and the starting of his own company, Propeller. For ten years Kivilo directed and shot many Bessie, Clio and Cannes award-winning commercials. In 1987 Kivilo filmed his first feature film, DA in Ireland. As the years progressed, he began to take more and more time off from his duties at Propeller to film movies, eventually deciding to concentrate full time on dramatic films. Kivilo's small screen work includes the mini-series THE INVADERS for which he received an ASC nomination, the satirical HBO drama WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION, HBO's GOTTI for which he won a CableAce award and was nominated for an Emmy and the American Society of Cinematographer Award, and also the HBO productions of REBOUND and NORMAL, starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. Kivilo has won critical acclaim for his cinematography on the feature films A SIMPLE PLAN, FREQUENCY, THE GLASS HOUSE, HART'S WAR and AURORA BOREALIS. Recently he photographed Harold Ramis' THE ICE HARVEST, a dark comedy starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Platt, and Scott Frank’s directorial debut, THE LOOKOUT.   In 1997 Kivilo moved with his wife and two young daughters to the USA. They divide their time between Los Angeles and Tallinn, Estonia.