MPC LA Promotes Kristopher Smale To Colorist
Smale joins award-winning team led by US Creative Director for Color Grading Mark Gethin.
Renowned global creative studio MPC is pleased to announce Kristopher Smale’s promotion to colorist in his fourth year with the company. Smale will continue work alongside Colorist Mark Gethin, US Creative Director/Color, and Colorists Ricky Gausis and Houmam ‘H’ Abdallah. The news was announced today by Justin Brukman, MPC Managing Director, US.
Kristopher Smale has been in the post-production industry for 11 years and color grading for four. He apprenticed under some of the best artists in the business before joining MPC’s award-winning color team in 2012. An advocate for Digital Intermediate since its advent, Smale was instrumental in changing Company 3’s commercial grading process over to DI.
A frequent collaborator of directors such as Andrew Donoho, James Ponsoldt and Alice Gu, Smale’s work has brought beauty and depth to many highly acclaimed commercials and short films. Highlights include Samsung’s “Voices of Life” commercial, Apple Music’s Good Charlotte “Youth Authority” episodic series, West Elm’s New Denim Project and Local to Global campaigns and all three episodes of The North Face’s “Steep Series,” filmed on British Columbia’s Tsirku Glacier. Smale has graded projects for countless top brands such as Nissan, Honda, Acura and Samsung.
Smale is based in Los Angeles and proud to be the only American colorist on MPC’s team – born and bred in Detroit, Michigan.
Recent work from the MPC LA Color team includes Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women (Mark Gethin), FX’s Golden Globe-winning series Atlanta(Ricky Gausis), FKA twigs x Nike “Do You Believe in More” (Houmam), Samsung “Surf – The Snail” (Ricky Gausis) and The Weeknd MANIA (Mark Gethin).
