The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada 2017: Film Programs to Shape You Into the Next Moviemaking All-Star
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and personal relationships that flourish in...
What’s in Your Kit? The Underwater Gear Used in Jeff Orlowski’s Gorgeous Environmental Doc Chasing Coral
How do you show irrefutable proof that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change? Director Jeff Orlowski’s feature Chasing Coral follows...
Shedding Light: Watch This Enlightening Breakdown of DP Janusz Kaminski’s Signature Lighting Techniques (Video)
For every production, there are existing sets, and then there are additional set layers whose creation depends upon harnessing those sets’ light sources. Frequent Steven Spielberg...
What’s in Your Kit? Cinematographer and Director Michael Williams (The Atoning)
For our series “What’s in Your Kit?,” we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t live without. Michael Williams is...
Eye Piece: How DP Daniella Nowitz of Live Cargo Captured a Surreal Bahamas in Black and White
Producer Thymaya Payne, during an initial phone call about our film Live Cargo, cut to the chase: “We’re shooting on the island of Bimini. It’s...
One-Stop Shop: Low-Budget Horror Feature American Gothic Made Blackmagic Design Work Three Times Over
This post was sponsored by Blackmagic Design. The lives of two convicts, Nick and Guy, are turned upside down when their prison transport crashes and...
Eye Piece: Dark Night Used Streetlights and Neon Signs to Give Natural Darkness a Haunting Glow
We shot Dark Night in June of 2015, in Sarasota, Florida: It was very hot and right in the middle of the rainy season. This was...
What’s In Your Kit? Motherland Cinematographer Nadia Hallgren
For our series “What’s in Your Kit?,” we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t live without. Cinematographer Nadia Hallgren’s...
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we’ve learned from their dizzying, often...
Guerrilla in the Arboretum: The Covert Shooting of a Scene From Chemical Cut
This is a recollection of a certain Thursday in May of 2014. The Chemical Cut crew and I, the DP, had a noon call time...
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The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada 2017: Film Programs to Shape You Into the Next Moviemaking All-Star
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and personal relationships that flourish in an academic setting are...
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What’s in Your Kit? The Underwater Gear Used in Jeff Orlowski’s Gorgeous Environmental Doc Chasing Coral
How do you show irrefutable proof that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change? Director Jeff Orlowski’s feature Chasing Coral follows an impassioned team of...
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Of Bad Apes and Twisted Revenge: Matt Reeves, Steve Zahn, Weta Digital and Others on War for the Planet of the Apes
Actor Steve Zahn—known for his roles in That Thing You Do, Riding in Cars With Boys, and Dallas Buyers Club—once stumbled onto an online post about his role in...