Exposure: John Cooper
With this, his 22nd film festival, no one (save for founder Robert Redford) has been more intrinsically bound to Sundance than John Cooper. His tenure actually pre-dates Sex, Lies and Videotape, often cited as the turning point in Sundance’s now two-decade reign as the world’s best indie festival. Cooper (employees and volunteers rarely use his first name) says his love affair with Park City was written in the stars. “I actually stumbled” upon Sundance during a layover flight in Utah,” he remembers. “I was on my way back to New York from San Francisco and met someone in a bar who asked if I’d like to volunteer at the festival. I was involved in theater at the time and the whole do-it-yourself approach of independent film really spoke to me.” Read more
To The Mountain
Local 600 filmmakers scale indie film-land’s summit at Sundance 2012. By David Geffner. Read more
President’s Letter – January 2012
January 3, 2012 by admin
Filed under President's Letter
My New Year’s Resolution? More change.
New years bring new thoughts about what lies ahead in the world of image capture and processing. And I think, in some ways, it will be a year of consolidation of services and transition to all things digital. The jury is still out however on how good this will be for the quality of motion pictures (notice I didn’t call them films). Read more
Keys to the City
Chris Menges, ASC, BSC, unlocks the fragile secrets of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. By Joseph Donovan. Photos by Francois Duhamel. Read more
ICG January 2012
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
DP Chris Menges, ASC, BSC
by Joseph Donovan
JOYFUL NOISE
DP David Boyd, ASC
by Ted Elrick
ARE WE THERE YET?
DP Bill Berner
by Pauline Rogers
DSLR TRENCH TALES
by Matthew Irving
INDIE HORROR CASE STUDY: THE WOMAN
by Valentina I. Valentini
600 VOICES SERIES PART I
by Pauline Rogers
EXPOSURE: John Cooper
KEY LIGHT: Canon Event
GEAR GUIDE: Indie Issue
UNSCRIPTED: Jeremy Walker
