Peter Benison

Peter Benison

출생 : 1950-04-28, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Peter Benison (born April 28, 1950 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian cameraman. During his studies at McGill University, Benison met cameraman and special effects artist Wally Gentleman, so he decided to become a cameraman himself. Benison debuted in 1981 as chief cameraman for the Canadian comedy Ups & Downs by Paul Almond. Since then, he has worked for both Canadian and American films, mainly shooting television films, including Taken Away - Icy Prison, Death on a Summer Night, and Kevin - Alone for All. From Wikipedia (de), the free encyclopedia

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Designing Christmas
Director of Photography
Follows Stella, who has worked for the past six years with Pablo as co-hosts of a house renovation show, but as they work together more closely than ever before, she gets complicated and unexplored feelings that may jeopardize everything.
A Chestnut Family Christmas
Director of Photography
A talented pastry chef, accidentally commits to hosting her family for the holidays, she poses as the wealthy homeowner in order to impress them. Everything is fine, until everyone's secrets are exposed and relationships begin to unravel.
Christmas CEO
Director of Photography
A small toy company CEO gets a once in a lifetime offer to merge with a mega toy company but will need her estranged ex-business partner's signature to seal the deal. What he helps her rediscover will change both of their lives.
Boyfriends of Christmas Past
Director of Photography
Leading up to Christmas, marketing executive, Lauren, is visited by the ghosts of four ex-boyfriends. She must learn to open her heart or risk losing her best friend, Nate.
Christmas Unwrapped
Director of Photography
Charity, an ambitious reporter, learns the true meaning of Christmas when she investigates Erik Gallagher, a beloved member of the town who insists all the gifts he provides every Christmas are from none-other than Santa himself.
Turkey Drop
Director of Photography
Lucy Jacobs, a freshman university student, returns home to her small town for Thanksgiving break and suspects she's about to get turkey dropped— aka dumped by her high school sweetheart. To avoid a Turkey Day travesty, Lucy gets out of her comfort zone, proving she's not the same play-it-safe girl she once was.
Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For
Director of Photography
A crossword puzzle editor finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes, and she is pulled into the police investigation.
크리스마스 인 러브
Director of Photography
엘리가 일하는 작은 마을의 베이커리. 어느 날 그곳에 CEO가 찾아온다. 그런데 CEO가 품고 있는 남다른 포부 때문에 엘리가 간직해온 꿈도, 묘한 설렘도 산산이 조각날 위기에 처한다.
My Secret Valentine
Director of Photography
A young woman takes advice from the chalkboard notes that her mysterious house rental tenant leaves when a slick sales rep arrives with plans to buy her family’s prized winery.
크리스마스 인 스노우
Director of Photography
기업가의 철부지 파티광인 딸이 회사를 물려받기 위해 신분을 속이고 아버지의 고향에 가 허드렛일을 하며 인생과 사랑의 참된 의미를 깨닫는 내용
Love on Ice
Director of Photography
Emily James, now 27 years old and considered a relic in the world of figure skating, gets an improbably shot to reclaim skating glory when a young coach sees greatness in her. Together, they find their love of skating goes beyond the ice.
크리스마스 선물
Director of Photography
친한의 친구의 죽음을 알게 된 잭(제임스 브롤린)은 오랜만에 고향을 찾는다. 딸(미나 수바리)이 있는 집에 찾아간 잭은 오랜만에 딸과 손녀(지젤 아이젠버그)도 만나지만, 크리스마스를 싫어하기에 볼 일만 처리한 후 다시 집을 떠나려 한다. 한편 재키는 처음 출근한 검사실에서 수사관 마이크(존 리어던)와 일이 꼬이고 만다. 설상가상으로 그가 아버지와 연관이 있다는 사실을 알게 되고, 아버지로 인해 마이크와 점점 얽히게 되는 일이 많아진다. 그러던 중 남자친구 랜드(제이콥 블레어)와의 사이는 점점 틀어지게 되고, 아버지까지 나서서 일은 점점 더 복잡해지고 만다. 행복해야 할 크리스마스, 오랜만에 집을 찾은 아버지와 재키는 서로의 관계를 회복할 수 있을 것인가?
Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted
Director of Photography
Abby Knight, ex-lawyer and crime buff, and the owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, is having a week to be reckoned with. A reluctant bridesmaid at her drama queen cousin’s wedding, Abby ends up not just doing the flowers...but having to find out who murdered a wedding crasher. Stars Brooke Shields, Brennan Elliott and Beau Bridges.
Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud
Director of Photography
Former attorney-turned-small-town-florist, Abby Knight, has a nose for sleuthing, quickly embroiled in a murder investigation, grateful for the help when she teams with retired private eye, Marco Salvare, who now owns a local bar and grill.
Valentine Ever After
Director of Photography
Big city girls Julia and her best friend Sydney take a trip to a dude ranch in Wyoming for a fun weekend getaway, but after a brawl at the local bar, the girls are sentenced to stay in town and perform community service. Along the way, Julia finds love and her true calling in life.
Love's Complicated
Director of Photography
Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.
안드론: 블랙 라비린스
Second Unit Cinematographer
완벽히 통제된 미래 사회 10명의 남녀가 거대한 미로, 안드론에서 깨어난다 코드를 해독하고, 시그널을 읽고, 장애물을 뚫어라! 그리고 살아 있는 미로를 탈출하라! 단 한 사람만 살아남는다!
Lead with Your Heart
Director of Photography
Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back together and make them realize how much they still need each other.
Christmas at Cartwright's
Director of Photography
With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortune and the possibility of holiday romance.
Christmas with Tucker
Director of Photography
While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there is the promise of their reunion at Christmas. George feels needed on the farm as he helps his grateful grandfather Bo with daily chores and comforts his grandmother Cora. He has also made friends with Mary Ann and became attached to Tucker, the smart and friendly dog the McCrays take in when his troubled owner Frank Thorne lands in jail.
The Mystery Cruise
Director of Photography
"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. The cruise serves as the setting for a mystery game created to promote the release of Nora's latest book. As the boat calmly sets sail, everyone is enjoying getting into character, especially Alvirah, who may or may not be the games "murderess." But troubled waters lie ahead when Alvirah gets a hunch that a real killer may be on board and, together with Regan, the pair teams up to solve the high seas whodunnit.
Star Spangled Banners
Director of Photography
Ten years following the breakup of the family band, The Banner Project, siblings Desiree, Johnny, and Mitchel Banner, are faced with the decision to reunite in order to save their home town from bankruptcy.
나 홀로 집에: 크리스마스 소동
Director of Photography
주인공 핀은 집에 유령이 산다는것을 증명하기 위해 덫을 놓는데.... 그 덫에 3인조 강도가 걸리면서 벌어지는 이야기
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Director of Photography
When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
크리스마스의 열두 남자
Director of Photography
뉴욕의 어느 홍보 대행사에서 성공가도를 달리던 EJ는 자신이 완벽한 삶을 살고 있다고 자신했지만, 직장 상사와 눈이 맞은 약혼자에게 버림을 받는다. 회사에서 나온 EJ는 다른 직장을 찾지만, 자신의 생각대로 잘되지 않는다. 실연과 실직의 아픔으로 힘들어하는 그녀에게 몬태나 주의 소도시 칼리스펠의 면장이 회사 워크숍 유치를 위해 1년간 같이 일하자고 제안한다. 따분한 시골 생활이 두려웠던 EJ는 기분 전환과 경력을 위해 면장의 제안을 수락하고 주민들과 함께 일하게 되는데, 그 와중에 지역의 안전을 책임지는 수색 구조단이 재정적 어려움을 겪는 걸 알고, 구조단원들의 나체 사진을 실은 달력을 판매하자고 제안한다. (캐치온)
The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love
Director of Photography
Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal.
Dear Prudence
Director of Photography
Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss Jeffrey Symcox, to a secluded lodge in Tassajero, Wyoming. The lodge was built on the last remnant of Indian land preserved by the Andrews family. Her celebrity status and sassy charm help quickly getting acquainted with local notables, including French heir Jean Phillipe Andrews, his land trust lawyer Doug Craig and police detective Eddie Duncan. Pru is with lodge caretaker Ruth Vigil when she discovers her estranged son JR is missing from his home after leaving a message. Pru finds blood, and although it's not JR's insists he must have been murdered. After her research assent, a computer whiz with a minor criminal record, joins her, and they soon get in danger snooping ahead of the incredulous authorities to discover several linked crimes.
Maneater
Cinematography
When a dismembered body is found in the Appalachian Mountains, a county Sheriff is shocked to discover that the predator is a six-hundred pound Bengal tiger.
To Be Fat Like Me
Director of Photography
Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that overweight people, like her mom and brother, seem to make excuses about how the world perceives them. So Aly decides to attend a rival high school as a heavily overweight person for the documentary, but not change her personality. Aly intends and hopes to prove that personality will outshine physical appearance. But when she's met with ridicule, harassment, and name-calling she begins to see things differently.
Memory
Director of Photography
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Four Extraordinary Women
Director of Photography
John's mother was diagnosed, then his nanny. After that, his sister. And finally, his wife. This is the unbelievable (and unbelievably poignant) tale, inspired by actual events, of four courageous women who battled breast cancer, and the man who loved them all.
For the Love of a Child
Director of Photography
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary centers for abused and/or neglected children in the States. Among them is bright Jacob Fletcher, whose stepfather, a lawyer, terrorized him into utter trauma and reclaims him shortly after 10 months in jail. Jacob's peers have distressing stories of their own, but competent, devoted staff helps most of them decisively on the former farm, using animal therapy.
The Last Hit
Director of Photography
Coco is a professional assassin and has one shot to make things straight, but who will be the target?
Looking for Angelina
Cinematography
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Perfect Romance
Director of Photography
The mother of a young divorcee places an ad on her daughter's behalf on a lonely hearts internet website but the person who responds fits her own ideal of a suitable partner. The daughter is still hung up on her musician ex-husband.
나 홀로 집에 4
Director of Photography
부모님이 이혼을 해 엄마와 함께 살게 된 케빈은 크리스마스를 아빠와 함께 아빠의 여자친구 나탈리의 집에서 보내기로 결정한다. 한편 전편들에서 케빈에게 호되게 당했던 도둑 마브는 베라라는 새 파트너와 함께 나탈리의 집을 털기로 하는데...
Outside the Law
Cinematography
Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
Watchtower
Cinematography
A sleepy Oregon village turns deadly when Adam, introducing himself as an English professor working on his first novel, befriends Kate and Mike, a brother and sister trying to put their lives back together after the death of their father. The two welcome the stranger, unaware that their actions will lead them down a dangerous path into the mind and grip of a deadly serial killer.
Alley Cats Strike
Cinematography
A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Genius
Director of Photography
Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
Perfect Little Angels
Director of Photography
Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman and her teenage daughter Justine are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin Lawrence. Sensing that Justine is bit testy and out of sorts, Dr. Lawrence recommends that she begin taking a special vitamin which he manufactures in his own home. Before long, Justine is the model of perfection -- just like all the other teenagers in town.
One Hot Summer Night
Director of Photography
When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim's abused wife and her lover.
Double Take
Director of Photography
A Writer identifies a murder, possibly mistakenly, in this tense plot twisting thriller.
Playing to Win: A Moment of Truth Movie
Director of Photography
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
I Know What You Did
Director of Photography
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
A Champion's Fight
Director of Photography
Julie Ellis is deeply involved with her high school sweetheart, Luke, even though her parents object that she has made a commitment at such a young age. That commitment only deepens when Luke becomes ill. Wanting to stay close to Luke and offer him comfort, Julie defies her parents' wishes to go away to a prominent school.
Night of the Twisters
Director of Photography
A coming-of-age story, adapted from Irv Ruckman's 1984 novel, about a teenager who bonds with his stepfather while the Blainsworth, Nebraska farm family battles a series of killer twisters.
No One Could Protect Her
Director of Photography
Fact-based drama about a smalltown rape victim who helps the police trap her attacker who has invaded her home again and again.
For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story
Director of Photography
Follows the triumphs and tragedies of Katrinka Kovár, a young Czechoslovakian ski prodigy who discovers high-society splendor in the arms of a wealthy American businessman. When lust turns to lies, Katrinka - long haunted by a burning secret from her past - sets out to find the love she left behind.
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Director of Photography
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
Bullet to Beijing
Director of Photography
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.
The Lifeforce Experiment
Cinematography
A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
Woman on the Ledge
Director of Photography
Three longtime friends each struggle with a major life crisis threatening to destroy her.
The Dance Goes On
Director of Photography
Crazy Los Angeles. Work is an hour away, down a crammed six-lane freeway. It is always sunny, but the sun looks like a sickly blemish on the smog. Everyone's out to look beautiful and make money. And a kid named Rick fits right in. The Gaspé coast. Work is five minutes away on a tractor seat. When the sun shines, the ocean is set ablaze, and the scent of pine fills the crisp country air. People here just try to make ends meet, but they know how to laugh from the gut and to show each other they care. This is were Rick's father James grew up, but Rick has never been here. When Rick learns that he has inherited the ancestral farm, and that his father wants him to go to Gaspé to bury the uncle who left Rick this legacy, an extraordinary odyssey begins. Father and son start out as different from each other as Gaspé and Los Angeles, but in the process, Rick discovers manhood and James discovers fatherhood.
게이트
Second Unit Cinematographer
어느 날 밤 폭풍으로 인해 글렌의 집 뒷마당의 고목나무가 쓰러지고, 글렌과 그의 친구 테리는 나무가 뽑힌 구덩이 한 켠의 커다란 구멍을 보고 관심을 갖는다. 그러나 글렌과 테리 그리고 글렌의 누나 앨은 대수롭지 않게 넘겨 버린다. 그러던 어느 날 구멍 속에서 생물체들이 올라오는 것을 보게 된 이들은 구멍과 생물체들의 출현이 악마의 공격을 예고하는 것임을 전혀 알지 못한다. 그들의 부모는 아이들을 두고 여행을 떠나게 되고, 이틈을 타 공격을 시작하는 악의 세력과 글렌, 테리 그리고 앨의 전쟁이 시작된다.
Oklahoma Smugglers
Director of Photography
Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.
Meatballs III: Summer Job
Director of Photography
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
Ups & Downs
Director of Photography
Set in the well-off confines of a British Columbia boarding school, this affectionate film follows the trials and tribulations of a group of students as they cope with sex, death, rebellion and loneliness.