Interview: Maxine Gervais, Colourist

Maxine Gervais has over 50 movie credits as a colourist, starting with Harry Potter – The Goblet of Fire and reaching new heights recently with Marvel Studio’s smash hit Black Panther and Sony Pictures’ Alpha.

Her plans for the IBC Big Screen session Colour My World were to use clips from both Alpha and Black Panther, and from the sci-fi movie The Meg, to show the processes she applied to grading each job.

“I am fond of the two movies I have done recently for different reasons. Black Panther is a huge box office hit and a pretty unique movie for Marvel because in America it was ground-breaking for having an African-American super hero,” she says. “I worked with the director of photography (DP) Rachel Morrison, so there is a lot of exciting things to talk about.

“Alpha was a project closer to my heart because I had worked with director Al Hughes on Book of Eli,” she adds. “He got me involved from the very beginning when they were shooting, and I got to work with the very talented DP Martin Gschlacht who had shot the movie with the Arri 65. I got to handle some beautiful images.”

Gervais came out of Alpha with a stronger friendship with Hughes and huge…