Brian Boyd
Colorist
TOKYO PROJECT
Director: Richard Shepard
The Eagle Huntress
Director: Otto Bell
Thoroughbreds
Director: Cory Finley
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Director: S. Craig Zahler
2023 Reel
2021 Reel
2019 Reel
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2018 Reel
Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd’s career working in color began in the early aughts with an engineering internship at Broadway Video. In his early career, Brian spent nights and weekends self-training to learn the early tools of the trade (including Avid DS, Scratch, Baselight) before eventually mastering Resolve as it emerged as the industry standard. Beyond his intensive technical education, Brian learned the craft of color while working as a Junior Colorist at Orbit. While at Orbit, he assisted senior colorists and got to be in the room with established DPs (such as Florian Ballhaus. Lawrence Sher, Roger Deakins) as well as world-class directors (including Stephen Daldry, Mike Nichols, Sam Mendes, Jim Jarmusch, among many others.) In 2007, Brian did finishing and color correcting on his first feature, George Butler’s documentary Lord God Bird and knew from that moment on that he was committed to being a colorist. Brian has worked on many remarkable films, including Barry Levinson’s The Bay, S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cellblock 99, Otto Bell’s short documentary The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima and Cory Finley's Thoroughbreds for Focus Features. Other career highlights include restoring Houdini’s Grim Game (a lost film that was pieced back together after 80 years), working on a Muppets project, and doing a 4K color pass on Tom Noonan’s What Happened Was. Brian has a special affinity for documentary finishing, from socially conscious docs like David Osit's Mayor and Matt Wolf's Spaceship Earth to award-winning nature work for Cornell's Ornithology Lab. He is deeply committed to collaboration and what he enjoys most is helping clients to discover the look of a project by fostering a creative, open, and playful environment.