Fresh Director Boaz Yakin Proves You Can Make it Sans the Hype

by Ann Hedreen
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/fresh_director_boaz_yakin_proves_you_can_make_it_sans_the_hype_20080911/
Fresh is a knockout of a first film. Well-crafted and poetically paced, it is a movie so simple and straightforward in storyline that it feels like a completely “fresh” approach to moviemaking. So how did director Boaz Yakin do it? Where did it all begin?