Clubhouse Conversations — Ozark (Season 3)

In this 102-minute episode, cinematographer Armando Salas, ASC and director Alik Sakharov, ASC discuss their collaboration in this Netflix family crime drama series with interviewer Eric Steelberg, ASC.

Ozark tells the story of financial adviser Martin “Marty” Byrde (Jason Bateman, above) who drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks after a money laundering scheme for a Mexican drug cartel goes wrong, and he must now launder $500 million in five years to make amends. The series has completed three series and has earned numerous accolades.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Salas immigrated to the Miami, Florida during the Mariel boatlift in 1980.

His feature work includes the documentary Cocaine Cowboys as well as My Lucky Star, Bitch and The Most Hated Woman in America. His television work includes episodes and seasons of the series From Dusk Till Dawn, Mr. Mercedes, Six, Raising Dion, Strange Angel and The Old Man. He has photographed Seasons 2 and 3 of Ozark.

Director of photography Armando Salas, ASC.

Sakharov has photographed a number of features and television shows, including The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Rome, Sex and the City and more. His work as a director includes episodes of House of Cards, The Witcher, Game of Thrones, Black Sails, Boardwalk Empire and Dexter, among others.

A Los Angeles native, Steelberg’s upcoming 2021 supernatural comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the cinematographer’s eighth feature film collaboration with director Jason Reitman, following The Front Runner; Tully; Men, Women & Children; Labor Day; Young Adult; Up In the Air and Juno. His other credits include 500 Days of Summer, Baywatch and the period biopic Dolemite Is My Name.

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