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  • Festivals

Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits

Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival's official photographer since 2003, a post that gives him the unusual privilege…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Interviews

"Lenses are the Protein You Choose When You’re Cooking:" an Interview with Matthew Libatique

You could say that cinematographer Matthew Libatique is having a banner year, with F. Gary Gray's N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta…

8 years ago
  • Directing

Postcards from Colombia: The Making of Josef Wladyka’s Manos Sucias

When Josef Wladyka, director of Manos Sucias, arrived in Buenaventura, Colombia to shoot his feature about that country's notorious drug…

9 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned (from Spike Lee): Director Julius Onah of The Girl is in Trouble

Nigerian-born, Philippines-and-Virginia-bred director Julius Onah met Spike Lee as a graduate film student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,…

9 years ago
  • Festival Spotlight Friday
  • Festivals

Festival Spotlight Friday: Onwards and Upwards with Cinequest 2014

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cinequest Film Festival isn't shy about its home’s rich history of technological revolution.…

10 years ago
  • Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967 – 2014

Yesterday, the world of cinema suffered a profound and appalling loss with the death of brilliant moviemaker Philip Seymour Hoffman.…

10 years ago
  • Articles
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Cinematographer Jim Chressanthis Takes a Journey to a Dark Time in The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Bob Fisher

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Kenny Leon’s TV movie airing tomorrow night on the Hallmark Channel, takes the audience on…

11 years ago
  • Producing

Other People’s Money

You’ve graduated from an accredited film school and made an award-winning short. You’ve waited for doors to open. You’ve posted…

17 years ago