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Detroit Native Christos Moisides Second Unit DP on DETROIT 187

Christos' film career began in Detroit, Michigan in 1992 serving as a motion picture camera assistant on numerous national and regional commercials. Graduating with a film degree in 1996 from Emerson College in Boston, Christos continued his film career in Los Angeles. While working on such Studio feature films as, Minority Report, XXX and numerous IMAX films, he was elevated in the Independent world to camera operator and director of photography. In 1998, Christos and business partner Darren Campbell established Colony Films, with Christos producing and photographing their first feature film, Second Coming. Continuing his photographic success, he has accumulated an impressive list of productions behind the camera and producing music videos, concert films, documentaries and commercials. Christos has shot National and International commercial campaigns for companies such as General Motors, Mercedes Benz, Aldo Shoes and Dunlop Golf as well as music videos for national hip-hop and rock artists.

DIRECTOR Anthony Garth

BY DOUG COOMBE

If you don’t know this guy Anthony Garth, chances are you’ve seen his work. The chrome-domed director was a bartending fixture at the Magic Stick from 2000 to 2006, and he still does the occasional shift there. He’s also directed many winning music vids for a checklist of Detroit stars — the White Stripes, Eminem, Obie Trice, Proof, Bizarre, the Sights, the Electric Six, the Detroit Cobras and the Von Bondies among them.

After studying photography and film production at Oakland University, Garth split for Los Angeles in 1996 for film work and returned a couple years later because he completely understands Detroit’s haunted aesthetic beauty. By 2001, he’d earned a few huge, door-opening gigs; he shot the White Stripes’ eerie “Hotel Yorba” vid and co-produced Eminem’s 2002 tour documentary Eminem: All Access Europe.

Such beginnings made Garth an in-demand director; he has since shot more than 40 music clips and has helmed some major ad campaigns, including the Chevy HHR and an upcoming Pure Michigan tourism campaign.

Between shoots, Garth scans locations in his grandfather William’s 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood. Now, this Fleetwood is a fetching beast, to be sure, one that slurps up fuel at a whopping 11 miles to the gallon, but it’s a Caddy that makes an impression. Garth motors around Detroit like an alcoholic surgeon who owns this town, baby. The filmmaker, you’ll note, knows a thing or two about choosing locations. Hence Dearborn’s Ford-Wyoming Drive-In here, where, as a tyke, Garth’s family would pull out the lawn chairs for classics like E.T. “An ’80s Cadillac, a hat from Henry the Hatter and the Ford-Wyoming Drive In-Theater,” Garth cracks, “what else does one need in Detroit?”