Les Bernstien

Leslie "Les" Bernstien is a visual effects artist who worked as motion control operator on , , and the first season episode . In addition he worked as visual effects cameraman on the sixth season episode .
Bernstien earned two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for his work on Star Trek. In for the Deep Space Nine episode , shared with Glenn Neufeld, David Takemura, Erik Nash, Joshua Cushner, Adam Howard, Patrick Clancey, and Don Lee, and in for the Voyager episode , shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Elizabeth Castro, Bruce Branit, John F. Gross, Fred Pienkos, Jeremy Hunt, and Paul Hill.
In 1999 he directed, wrote, produced, worked as matte artist and additional photographer on the short thriller Night Train. This film earned him the Director's Week Award at the Fantasporto and featured Trek actor Dan Shor. Ten years later he worked as director, writer, producer, and cinematographer on the documentary Tijuana Moods.
As visual effects artist he worked on feature films and television series from the early '80s on. He started as technican animator on (1984), followed by credits as visual effects supervisor on the documentary X: The Unheard Music (1986) and the science fiction comedy The Trouble with Dick (1987). Further credits, mostly as visual effects director of photography, include (1988), (1989), (1993), (1994), (1994), (1995, with Rocco Gioffre and Todd Masters), (1995), (1996), (1996), (1996), (1996), (1997), (1997), (1997), (1998), (1998), (1998), (1999), and (1999).
In addition he worked for Buena Vista Visual Effects on (1992) and on the short comedy Trail Mix-Up (1993) and for VIFX on (1993, with Cheryl Budgett, Peter Crosman, Rhonda C. Gunner, Richard Hollander, Greg McMurray, Zeke Morales, and John C. Wash).
More recent credits as visual effects artist and motion control operator include (2001), (2001), (2003), (2003), (2004), (2004), (2005), (2006), (2006), (2006), (2006), (2008), (2009), and (2009). Most recently he worked as lead motion control operator on (2013).
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