Gene Page(II)
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Gene Page was born William Eugene Page IV in Florida in 1962 to a
newspaper family that owned papers in Florida and Georgia. Page grew up
with photography as his father was interested in not only the business
side of journalism but the editorial side as well with photojournalism.
Gene started to work in his family's newspaper helping in the
photography department when he was nine years-old. About the same time,
he found an old 8mm film camera at his grandparents house that had long
been forgotten. He started taking it to school to make little short
films on the playground as well as after school with an adaptation of
Dracula, with Dracula played by the mayor's son, his biggest 4th grade
production. Page's parents got divorced and his mother married someone
who worked overseas, so that took Gene and his family to Europe, and
then Asia, also living in California in the mid to late 1970s, where
Gene used to sneak on studios to watch film making as a teenager. After
high school, and then a stint in the Air Force, Page attended St.
Petersburg (FL) Junior College, the University of Florida and then
moved to New York for a graduate degree in photography from Long Island
University. It was during these years that Page learned of the role of
still photographer on a film set and thought it was a perfect
combination of his love of photography and film making. After
graduating, and while working for an upstate New York newspaper, Page
started working on low budget independent films in New York to get
experience and to get into the union. He has been working as a movie
still photographer full time since 1993 and now lives with his wife (a
documentary film-maker) and their two children in the woods of North
Florida where he enjoys his time off while not working on set
somewhere. (Page lives in the town where "Doc Hollywood" was
shot.)