Alex Betancourt

Alex Betancourt

Mid-level Lighting Artist / 14 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Lighting Artist

Uncharted (2022)

Lighting Supervisor

Alice in Borderland (2020)

Lead VFX Artist

Men in Black: International (2019)

Lead Artist

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Lighting And Compositing TD

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Lighting Technical Director

Suicide Squad (2016)

Cgi Artist

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2016)

Lighting Artist

Gods of Egypt (2015)

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

Lighting Artist/Generalist

Total Recall (2012)

John Carter (2012)

Lighting Artist

Atlantis (2009)

Work History
  • Lighting Technical Director

    Double Negative

    June 2017 - Present
    Vancouver, Canada Area
  • Lighting Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    November 2015 - June 2017
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Working on feature film -

    Suicide Squad (Warner Bros, 2016)
    Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony Pictures Animation, 2017)

  • Lighter

    Cinesite

    February 2015 - September 2015
    Soho
  • Lighting TD

    Vine FX

    July 2014 - December 2014
    Soho

    Working on TV show -
    Atlantis Season 2 (BBC, 2014)

  • Lighting Technical Director

    Framestore

    October 2013 - May 2014
    Soho

    Worked on feature film -
    Jupiter Ascending (Warner Bros, 2015)

  • Lighter

    Cinesite

    April 2013 - September 2013
    Soho, London

    Worked on feature films -
    300: Rise of an Empire (Warner Bros, 2013)
    Edge of Tomorrow (Warner Bros, 2014)

  • Lighting Artist/Generalist

    Lipsync Post

    January 2012 - April 2013
    Soho

    Worked on feature film Total Recall (Sony, 2012) - responsible for look development and shot lighitng.

  • Junior Lighter

    Cinesite

    August 2010 - December 2011

    Worked on feature film John Carter (Disney, 2012)

  • Junior Artist

    Cinesite

    July 2010 - August 2010

    I beat 250 people to win one of only 2 places on the Cinesite Inspire Internship programme.
    My internship runs from 7th July - 27th August 2010.
    During my internship I am working in the lighting department.

  • Student

    Bournemouth University

    2007 - July 2010
  • Junior Developer

    SAM7 Ltd.

    October 2006 - June 2007

    Duties included answering telephone calls, re-installing PCs, data inputting and application development and system testing.
    Projects that I completed whilst at SAM7 included: a new ASP/SQL Server system for tracking the company's software library, the upgrade of SAM7's internal Onyx CRM system and working as part of the development/test team on a customer's Onyx implementation.

Education
  • Bournemouth University

    2007 - 2010
  • TPS

    ? - ?