Carolyn Giardina, tech editor at The Hollywood Reporter, is an award-winning journalist, author and adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.
At The Hollywood Reporter, Carolyn leads its Behind the Screen coverage of creative arts including cinematography, editing, animation, sound and visual effects, as well as entertainment technology. This includes the tools and techniques for production and postproduction, immersive media, consumer electronics and theatrical exhibition.
Carolyn has been honored with the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography, American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award for journalistic contributions to film editing, and the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership Lumiere Award.
During her career, she has worked in the U.S. and abroad, as an editor, reporter or columnist on titles including British Cinematographer, Cinema Editor, SHOOT and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Carolyn co-authored Exploring 3D: The New Grammar of Stereoscopic Filmmaking (Focal Press, 2013).
She served multiple terms on the HPA Board of Directors, during which time she co-founded and was founding chair of the HPA Awards, and more recently helped plan and moderate a series of remote panels as part of the HPA Industry Recovery Task Force amid the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak. She has served on the CES Show advisory board and committees for the American Society of Cinematographers and Visual Effects Society.