Director of Ukrainian photography HALYNA HUTCHINS worked on more than thirty feature films, short films and TV mini-series, but a new documentary based on “Rust“The tragedy acts as his death is the most interesting thing about it.

At only 42, Hutchins died in an Albuquerque hospital, leaving behind a husband and a young son.

Everyone wants to know what happened to Halyna Hutchins, and unfortunately, this is a question that could never be answered. Santa Fe officials seemed more interested in bringing out a Baldwin guilty verdict than investigating how live ammunition found themselves on a set.

No matter where you stand Alec BaldwinThe involvement, it seems quite clear that he was only a creative producer and did not know that a pistol he held on the set would be filled with live ammunition instead of factual rounds. Anyway, the pistol he held left – he always maintains that he has never pressed the relaxation – and a bullet torn Hutchins, ending his life.

The ball also entered Joel Souza And was recovered from his shoulder after being transported urgently to the hospital. While he recovered enough to finish the film (which moved the production of New Mexico to Montana), the mental assessment that the shooting had on the actors and the members of the team who were also in this church cannot be overestimated.

The name Halyna Hutchins has practically disappeared from the headlines, except when one of the members of his family wants to make a declaration to remind the public that they are always very involved in a civil lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and other “rust” producers.

But the media spectacle has largely erased it from the story of the “rust”, which focused on armor Hannah GUTIERREZ-REEDwho first went to be tried. She was found guilty of manslaughter and is currently serving an 18 -month sentence.

The Baldwin trial, which drew the attention of the media, attracted much more attention, especially when the judge rejected the trial with prejudice to the third day of witnesses. The day before, a crime scene technology had testified to the existence of evidence that had never been transmitted to the Defense, also known as the Brady violation.

The judge decided that the violation was so serious that it completely rejected the accusations against Baldwin, so he will never be criminally responsible for the death of Hutchins. Although the main prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey has tried several times to bring Baldwin back to court, she finally dropped the call just before Christmas.

Without fear of heading to the prison, Baldwin turned around and decided to bring legal action against the officials of Santa FeAccusing the prosecutor of the district of Santa Fe Mary Carmack-Altwies and the special prosecutor Kari Morrissey of “manipulating evidence” and “provoking false testimonies”.

With his TV show TLC “The Baldwins” reliving the key moments leading to his trial and The impact that his death had his mental healthIt is easy to see how media account can focus only on the actor “30 rock” while placing the real victim of this story, Halyna Hutchins, on the sidelines.

Unfortunately, the “last take: Rust and Hulu’s Hulu Hulu’s story do exactly that. The documentary, which will become available to broadcast on March 11, seems to be more on the story of “rust” and less on the inheritance than Hutchins has left.

The DOC offers images of the original Santa Fe ensemble, as well as photos of the whole Montana which wrapped production in the spring of 2023. The new director of film photography, Bianca Cline, participated in interviews with the film, as well as director Joel Souza, the assistant of the Lane Lane Lane camera and the Terese Davis costume.

It seems that I am not the only one to think that Halyna Hutchins was sidelined in his own documentary. On March 4, the director “Rust” Joel Souza, director Rachel Masonand producer Julee Metzparticipated in a Q&R after the projection at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. About The Hollywood ReporterAfter responding to the moderator Steve Chiotakis of Kcrw, Souza said that it was “a very moving film”, but estimated that he needed to focus more widely on the director of photography.

“I hoped that there could be a little more Halyna or was a little more on Halyna,” said Souza before speaking to Mason and Mets. “I know it was your initial intention when you told me about. And I could say when we speak over the years in the time that followed you that you were under pressure. »»

“I think we all know it, anyone in this room which is creative, which is that when the costumes immerse themselves to put their hands everywhere in your film,” added Souza. “And I’m just curious to know with the partners you had, and maybe I’m going to ask you, Julee, have they tried to protect Rachel’s vision?”

Metz responded first, praising Mason’s vision to tell the story of Hutchins. “Rachel had a very clear vision at the beginning to tell Halyna’s story about his life and his work and part of his death, of course, because this is where the story started,” she explained. “But over time, and as we have won new partners on this project, it has become clear that there was a commercial value in the history of Rust. And that had to be part of the story we had to tell. »»

“So, he became less in Halyna’s life and more about his death, but that’s what we ended up having to do,” she added.

Rachel Mason, who met Halyna Hutchins for the first time when their sons went to preschool school together, said there was a “change” in the film’s home, adding: “A film has these developments, it starts with the thing you imagine that you can do and then you start to work there and you can no longer do this thing. You change.

Things became even more uncomfortable that evening, when Mason was invited to know how difficult it was to make the film when the event team was trying to solve a problem with sound. Instead of answering the question, Mason returned to the crowd: “Maybe if someone here knew Halyna and would have something to say. It would be just great to hear a story on Halyna. »»

This is what I was also hoping to hear.

Hutchins was a woman born and grew up at a Soviet military base and then worked as an investigation journalist in Eastern Europe. She was one of the first eight women filmmakers participating in the Fox DP Lab program in 2018 and was named as one of the “10 promising photography directors who make their mark” by Director of American photography the following year.

Even after his death, his family, his friends and colleagues from the American Film Institute created the Hutchins Hutchins commemorative scholarship fund in order to support the education of women’s filmmakers. The American Society of Cinematographers also honored her posthumously with honorary membership after his death.

His death also inspired calls for firearm security reform on movies and film sets, with the showrunner “The Boys” Eric Kripke promising to ban whites and firearms in his show after his death. Many other showrunners have also made similar commitments to increase safety on the set. To put an end to his documentary with a call for action to prevent similar accidents could have seemed a movement that suits his inheritance.

However, the “last take: Rust and the story of Halyna Hutchins” seem to imply that Hutchins’ death has embarrassed the creation of an independent Western film, and in the real style of engine engine, they managed to regroup despite its tragic loss and make the film.

It’s a shame, while despite his first of November 2024 at Camerimage Film Festival in Poland, the film may never be seen. Although some international buyers have acquired distribution rights on the film, the producers have not yet obtained a national partner.

So, with “Rust”, put aside (for the moment) and the new Doc Hulu telling a story behind the scenes of the manufacture of “rust”, it remains to be seen whether or not we can know the late cinema that has lost its life in a tragic film accident which, we hope, will never be repeated.