"The Curse of Oak Island" follows brothers Marty and Rick Lagina as they investigate the mystery of a buried treasure on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Director of Photography. LA studio shoot Dec 2017.
MEGASTAR is the world’s first entertainment and global talent competition app, where one contestant wins US$1million. The winner is chosen by fans and celebrity judges who follow the competition and vote in the MEGASTAR App.
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From Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America, Best.Cover.Ever gives musicians the chance to record covers of (and with) popular songs from recording artists including Katy Perry, Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, Keith Urban, Flo Rida, Bebe Rexha and Charlie Puth. Hosted by Ludacris. Launched November 20, 2017.
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Acceptance speech shot in LA with Nicole Kidman, who received the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 7th AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel, held in Sydney at The Star Event Centre on 6 December 2017.
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On “Tiny House Nation,” renovation experts and hosts, John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin, travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and the inventive people who live in them, as well as help new families design and construct their own mini-dream home in a space no larger than 500 square feet. From a micro-apartment in New York City to a caboose car turned home in Montana to a micro-sized mobile home for road tripping – this is a series that celebrates the exploding movement of tiny homes. From pricey to budget friendly, “Tiny House Nation” is not a typical design show, but one that proves size doesn’t always matter – it’s creativity that counts.
This story of a childhood crush, the song “Secret Love” is from Colin Hay’s album FIERCE MERCY, released June 2017.
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Three rival freelance stringers scour the streets at night to film crime scenes, fires, accidents -- and anything else they can sell to news outlets.
Director of Photography Seasons 1 to 5.
Storage Wars is an American reality television series on the A&E Network that premiered in December 2010.
When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction. The show follows professional buyers who purchase the contents based only on a five-minute inspection of what they can see from the door when it is open. The goal is to turn a profit on the merchandise.
Gavin was the Director of Photography from Season 1 (2010) through Season 5 (2014). His title sequence in 2012 still ranks as the most popular.
The first season premiere episode drew 2.1 million viewers and the show was A&E's top-rated non-fiction show for 2010, with an average of 2.4 million viewers. The Season 2 premiere consisted of back-to-back new episodes of the show; the second show drew 5.1 million total viewers and was the highest rating for an episode of a series in A&E history.
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“Storage Wars” favorite Barry Weiss takes the lead with his very own show, “Barry'd Treasure.”
The “Wars” spinoff premiered March 18, 2014 following the Season 5 premiere of “Storage Wars". The limited series featured Weiss, now retired from the storage auction game, as he embarks on a cross-country journey unearthing some of the nation’s rarest and most fascinating collectibles. Weiss was joined by “his motley crew of sidekicks who aid his efforts to haggle with the toughest, and sometimes oddest, collectors in America.”
Gavin DP'd Season One.
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The Discovery Channel rounds up some scientists and zombie preppers to hypothesize their "what-if-zombies-become-a-reality" scenarios.
Director of Photography Season 1 + 2.
Ice Road Truckers is a reality TV series that premiered on History Channel on June 17, 2007. It follows truck drivers with nerves of steel take their lives in their hands driving heavily loaded vehicles across frozen lakes to deliver supplies to remote locations in Canada and Alaska. Whether they're bringing supplies to Canadian diamond mines, supplying offshore oil rigs in Alaska or even charting new territory driving over frozen swamps and rivers to bring much-needed supplies to small towns, these extreme truckers face troubles from their machines and from Mother Nature. The series' premiere was seen by 3.4 million viewers to become the most-watched original telecast in the History Channel's 12-year history at that time. Among critics, Adam Buckman of the New York Post said, "Everything about 'Ice Road Truckers' is astonishing" Virginia Heffernan of The New York said, "Watching these guys ... make their runs, it’s hard not to share in their cold, fatigue and horrible highway hypnosis, that existential recognition behind the wheel late at night that the pull of sleep and the pull of death are one and the same. ... It gets right exactly what Deadliest Catch got right, namely that the leave-nothing-but-your-footprints, green kind of eco-travelers are too mellow and conscientious to be interesting to watch. Instead, the burly, bearded, swearing men who blow methyl hydrate into their own transmissions and welcome storms as breaks from boredom ... are much better television." During 2007 the series was shown in the United Kingdom, Australia and various countries in Africa.
Gavin was the DP from inception, shooting Season 1 and Season 2.
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Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass is reality television series which is airied on The History Channel in the United States. The series depicts the adventures of archaeologist and Egyptologiest Dr. Zah Hawass and his discoveries in Egypt as he is followed by young archeological fellows and a camera crew. The series began on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 and aired Wednesdays at 10pm on the History Channel. The shows illustrates the complexities in the almost never-ending quest to preserve and discover artifacts from ancient Egypt. Gavin was the Director of Photography.
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Israel: The Royal Tour is an unprecedented tour inside the country, an up-close-and-personal journey with a very special guide: the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The latest in the Royal Tour series hosted by CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg, Israel: The Royal Tour provides unprecedented access inside a sacred land that is at once ancient and modern, with a long history of conflict.
Prime Minister Netanyahu takes Greenberg by helicopter, ship, dune buggy and bicycle throughout Israel – the birthplace of the world’s three great religions. Netanyahu and Greenberg explore the country’s iconic destinations: from climbing Masada to walking the streets in the Old City of Jerusalem; from the Mediterranean beaches of Tel Aviv to the holy sites below the Western Wall; from the Jordan Rover to the Temple Mount. Israel: The Royal Tour travels to some locations beyond the standard tourist checklist that hold special meaning to Netanyahu. Greenberg and Netanyahu also sit down for a frank discussion of the situation in the region, and discuss Palestinian statehood and the prospects for a real peace.
Gavin was the Director of Photography.
Director of Photography. Gavin travelled to the Bahamas for The Discovery Channel with comedian Andy Samberg who was appointed 'Chief Shark Officer' for Shark Week, July 2011.
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Take Home Chef is a half-hour reality cooking show starring Curtis Stone, which was an international hit for TLC. In each episode, Curtis introduces himself to a stranger in a grocery store, typically a woman in her 20s or 30s, and asks if she is cooking a meal for someone that night. When the person says yes, Curtis offers his services to help cook dinner. They drive to the participant's house, cook the meal, and then surprise the participant's partner or guest upon his or her arrival. Gavin was the DP for 140 episodes.
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Classically trained Ludo Lefebvre is a 5-star French chef who's writing his own restaurant rulebook. He and business partner/wife, Krissy, are hitting the road to reinvent American cuisine. From Texas BBQ to Baltimore crab cakes, each episode finds Ludo and Krissy setting up innovative pop-up restaurants at local eateries desperate for fresh ideas. Working together with their hosts, the creative duo try to fuse Ludo's high-end cooking with American classics and reignite a community's passion for food - inspiring them to live a little more outside their comfort food zone.
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A doco-reality series for Animal Planet.
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Skulls Unlimited owner Jay Villemarette, along with his wife Kim and their four kids run a business like no other - and they've become the world's best when it comes to bones. No animal too large, no request too unusual, the team works on everything from a human head to a 400 Barbary Lion. This special follows the often astonishing and gruesome detail of processing bodies - skin, fur, organs and all. Produced by 3net, a 3D joint venture with Sony, Discovery and Imax.
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A documentary drama series, produced by rapper Ice-T, followed a gang mediator as he weaved between violent rival groups in downtown Los Angeles. Aired on A&E in 2011.
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"Deadliest Catch" stars Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand go on the hunt for a Bering Sea monster dubbed "Cadborosaurus."
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Three episodes: The Science of Skin, The Science of Bones, The Science of Blood
Inventionland is an actual 61,000-square-foot (5,700 m2) design facility in Pittsburgh that houses 16 themed sets, including a pirate ship, tree house and giant robot. Founder George Davison's intention in building Inventionland was to provide a creative work environment in which his employees design, develop and create prototypes of and packaging for new products and inventions.
On December 24, 2011, the History Channel aired Inventionland, a reality TV special shot on location at Inventionland and starring Davison. The one-hour reality show explored whether the inventors’ product designs would function in a usable manner and/or be suitable for licensing and merchandising. In the show, George Davison and five of his employees tested various designs of each of the three inventions in a variety of settings, including a NASCAR auto shop.
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I'm with Busey was a comedy/documentary show which aired on Comedy Central in the summer of 2003. It revolved around a young writer named Adam de la Pena, who met and befriended his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey. Although the show lasted for only one season and the popularity of the show was limited, it has developed a cult following in the years after its cancellation.
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This three-part TLC series followed young ballroom dancers across the country as they compete at events across the USA.
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Family Business was an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the life of Adam Glasser, a reality porn star and video director who uses the stage name Seymore Butts.
Also featured on the series were his son, Brady, along with his mother, Lila Glasser, and his older cousin, Stevie Glasser, both of whom help Adam run the eponymous "family business" of the series, which in this case is a successful porn video production and distribution house in the San Fernando Valley, known for the "Seymore Butts" line of videos.
The series first aired in 2003. In Canada it is broadcast on The Movie Network, Movie Central, andShowcase Television, in the UK on Channel 4, and in Latin America on FX. The first two seasons are currently available on DVD in North America. The series ran for four seasons.
The series won the 2005 AVN award for 'Best Alternative Release'.
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A short film by Dane Cook and few of his fellow comic buddies: Alonzo Bodden, Jay Davis, Robert Kelly, Rusty Dooley, John DiResta, Gary Gulman, and Wayne Previdi (2003). Eight guys living in a shoe box sized apartment make a bet to see who gets to keep the apartment and who has to leave. The last person to receive a phone call wins a dump of an apartment.
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Season 11, 9 eps
Hosted by Tyra Banks, ATM is the most successful and longest-running fashion reality TV series in history.
Flipping Out is an American reality series that debuted on July 31, 2007 on Bravo TV in the United States and HGTV in Canada. The show is centered on designer Jeff Lewis in Los Angeles, California, his entourage that consists of his project manager Jenni, housekeeper Zoila, business manager and boyfriend Gage and his other assistant(s) and helper(s)
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Gavin spent a week with contestant + singer Bret Michaels. (lead singer of Poison) following his win on Celebrity Apprentice.
A paralyzed teen begins a relationship with an older woman when his home life goes bad. Starring Anne Archer, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Joshua Rofé, Amanda Plummer and Billy Kay.
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A Fox Reality Channel series that documented the lives of five househusbands and their wives and families.
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A 52-part, doco-entertainment TV series for the Animal Planet. Filmed across the Yucatan, Florida, Australia, Hawaii, Belize, Costa Rica, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and Death Valley in 1999.