Halyna Anatoliivna Hutchins was a cinematographer from Ukraine. She worked on more than 30 feature films, short films, and TV shows, such as Archenemy, Darlin’, and Blindfire. Hutchins was born in Horodets, Ukrainian SSR, on April 10, 1979.
She grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic city of Murmansk, which is in Russia. Her father was in the Soviet Navy and served there. She said that she was an “army brat” Jim Hemphill, a film researcher, says that she became interested in movies when she was living at the military base.
She went to National Agricultural University and then Kyiv National University. At National Agricultural University, she first studied economics and then switched to media. Hutchins got a degree in international news and worked as an investigative journalist in Eastern Europe, where he made documentary films.
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She met her American husband Matthew while she was in the US. They had a child, Andros. Even though she lived in the US, she kept her Ukrainian citizenship, was proud of her background, and often went back to visit.
On October 21, 2021, a prop gυn held by star Alec Baldwin and not properly checked on the set of the movie Rust accidentally sh0t and kἰlled her. Read on to find out more about Halyna Hutchins’ deἀth and what caused it.
Halyna Hutchins Cause of Deἀth
Near La Cienega, New Mexico, on October 21, 2021, Hutchins was working as the director of photography on the set of the Western movie Rust. While getting ready for a scene, actor Alec Baldwin sh0t a prop Pietta .45 Colt handgυn, kἰlling the woman who was sh0t and hurting the director, Joel Souza.
Later that day, she dἰed while being taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. She was 42 years old. Baldwin said in a statement the next day that she was sad and shocked by what had happened. He told the cops he would help them and offered help to her family.
On October 23, IATSE groups in the area put together a candlelight vigil at the Albuquerque Civic Plaza. It was attended by hundreds of people. She is buried in Hollywood, California, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. On February 15, 2022, it was announced that Hutchins’s family had filed a lawsuit against Baldwin and other crew members of the film Rust.
They said that Hutchins’s untimely deἀth on the set was caused by carelessness and cutting costs. On October 5, 2022, the case was settled for an amount that was not made public, and her widower was given a job as the film’s executive producer.
