We are a collective of three cinematographers, Katherine Castro, Nona Catusanu, and Liza Gipsova, based in New York City. Initially we bonded over the commonalities in our individual working experiences as mid-career female cinematographers. We developed DAWN as a response to the lack of opportunities available to us to shoot on 35mm film, in a technical and aesthetic exercise, which ultimately became a radical collaboration exploring new ways of working with our peers in a way that department heads rarely have the opportunity to.