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  llen Kuras utilized a bevy of mini-digital-video cameras to create the uniquely "televised" look of Bamboozled. The film marks her fourth collaboration with Spike Lee, having shot Summer of Sam; Lee's Academy Award nominated documentary "Four Little Girls," which was seen on HBO, and garnered Kuras an Emmy nomination; and "Niggericans" a segment Lee directed for HBO's "Subway Stories."
Kuras is a two-time winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Best Cinematography Award: once for Tom Kalin's black-and-white Swoon about the Leopold and Loeb murder case, and again for Rebecca Miller's Angela. She was the first person ever to receive the award twice. Kuras's credits also include The Mod Squad, Just the Ticket, Postcards From America, Unzipped and I Shot Andy Warhol. She made her debut with Ellen Bruno's Samsara, for which Kuras won the 1990 Eastman Kodak Best Documentary Cinematography Focus Award. She will next serve as cinematographer on Ted Demme's Blow, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz.
For television, Kuras has shot the HBO special "If These Walls Could Talk," and was honored with an Emmy nomination for her work on "Century of Women."
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