Jaime Reynoso AMC

BIO

BIO

Jaime Reynoso AMC
Director of Photography

Born in Mexico City, he started practicing still photography at age 16. His film set debut was as the camera trainee on the film Like Water for Chocolate. He got an MFA in cinematography at the American Film Institute where he graduated with the short film Ex-Voto which won Best Opera Prima at the San Antonio CineFestival in 1997 and Best Artistic Composition at the Belgium Draak Film Festival in 1998.

Reynoso has shot plenty of feature films and TV seasons. In the music video years he worked with the likes of Café Tacvba, Juanes & Kenny Rogers. The indie future Robbing Peter was nominated for the 2005 John Cassavetes Prize at the Independent Spirit Awards. Curandero, a Miramax feature written and produced by Robert Rodriguez, won him Best Cinematography at the 2006 San Antonio Cinefestival. Cansada de Besar Sapos was nominated for the Gabriel Figueroa award in 2007. Tlatelolco, summer of ’68 won Best Feature film at the Chicago International Latino FF in 2013. the independent feature A Cambodian Winter earned him best cinematography on the New York Cinematography awards and Canadian Cinematography awards both in 2020. He was nominated consecutively for the 39th and 40th ASC cinematography awards for The Kominsky Method (Michael Douglas) and Snowpiercer (Jennifer Connely)

He’s shot Bloodline (Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn & Kyle Chandler), The Kominsky Method S3 (Michael Douglas) and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons for Netflix, Snowpiercer S3 for TNT, Ballers S1 (Dwayne Johnson “The Rock”) for HBO, Shooter (Ryan Phillipe, Omar Epps), An Unknown Enemy S1 (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) and Aquí en la Tierra a political drama mini series set in Mexico City, produced and directed by Gael García Bernal, Extrapolations written by Scott Z. Burns and The New Look (Ben Mendelsohn Maisie Williams, John Malkovich & Juliette Binoche) both for AppleTV+

He’s Also been directing TV episodes on shows like Shooter, The Purge and El Candidato with James Purefoy, which earned him a nomination for best TV series in the 2019 Pantalla de Cristal awards.

Most recently, he shot Bloodline for Netflix (Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn & Kyle Chandler,) and Ballers (Dwayne Johnson & JD Washington) for HBO, Shooter (Ryan Phillipe, Omar Epps) for USA -for which he directed 3 episodes- and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons as well as Gael García Bernal’s Here on Earth.

Jaime Reynoso AMC
Director of Photography

Born in Mexico City, he started practicing still photography at age 16. His film set debut was as the camera trainee on the film Like Water for Chocolate. He got an MFA in cinematography at the American Film Institute where he graduated with the short film Ex-Voto which won Best Opera Prima at the San Antonio CineFestival in 1997 and Best Artistic Composition at the Belgium Draak Film Festival in 1998.

Reynoso has shot plenty of feature films and TV seasons. In the music video years he worked with the likes of Café Tacvba, Juanes & Kenny Rogers. The indie future Robbing Peter was nominated for the 2005 John Cassavetes Prize at the Independent Spirit Awards. Curandero, a Miramax feature written and produced by Robert Rodriguez, won him Best Cinematography at the 2006 San Antonio Cinefestival. Cansada de Besar Sapos was nominated for the Gabriel Figueroa award in 2007. Tlatelolco, summer of ’68 won Best Feature film at the Chicago International Latino FF in 2013. the independent feature A Cambodian Winter earned him best cinematography on the New York Cinematography awards and Canadian Cinematography awards both in 2020. He was nominated consecutively for the 39th and 40th ASC cinematography awards for The Kominsky Method (Michael Douglas) and Snowpiercer (Jennifer Connely)

He’s shot Bloodline (Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn & Kyle Chandler), The Kominsky Method S3 (Michael Douglas) and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons for Netflix, Snowpiercer S3 for TNT, Ballers S1 (Dwayne Johnson “The Rock”) for HBO, Shooter (Ryan Phillipe, Omar Epps), An Unknown Enemy S1 (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) and Aquí en la Tierra a political drama mini series set in Mexico City, produced and directed by Gael García Bernal, Extrapolations written by Scott Z. Burns and The New Look (Ben Mendelsohn Maisie Williams, John Malkovich & Juliette Binoche) both for AppleTV+

Most recently, he shot Bloodline for Netflix (Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn & Kyle Chandler,) and Ballers (Dwayne Johnson & JD Washington) for HBO, Shooter (Ryan Phillipe, Omar Epps) for USA - for which he directed 3 episodes- and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons as well as Gael García Bernal’s Here on Earth.