Inclusivity Behind The Lens Is A Powerful # These Days – Here are two voices from the Netflix series, On My Block, to help deepen the conversation by Margot Carmichael Lester / Photos by Nicola Goode, SMPSP I don’t remember when...
Zoran Veselic left us this summer, but anyone who ever worked with or met him will carry deep and wonderful memories forever forward. by Pauline Rogers “In 1983, when I landed in New York with two small suitcases,...
Here’s What The 2018 Emerging Cinematographer Award Honorees Have To Say About…Everything! by Margot Lester / Photos Courtesy of ECA Honorees Writing is more like filmmaking than you may think. One of the more striking similarities is how much gets left...
The Guild team behind the indie comedy, Dog Days, sniffed out valuable lessons from their unpredictable canine stars. by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Jacob Yakob Any pet owner knows dogs can frustrate the heck out of you: chewing on your...
Media-based journeys push technological limits at Sundance 2018 In the six years since Sundance’s New Frontier program debuted Nonny del la Peña’s iconic virtual reality (VR) experience, Hunger in L.A., the festival’s carefully curated collection of new media productions has...
The impact of Sol Negrin, ASC, SOC, on the film and television industry will live on long after his passing, as his peers, colleagues, friends, family and students recall in this loving tribute. By Pauline Rogers It was 1976. The...
Local 600-shot films in Park City this year rise to new heights (and emotionally challenging depths). By David Geffner. All photos courtesy of The Sundance Institute unless otherwise noted. Fans of indie cinematography will find much to celebrate at the 2017 Sundance...
Ben Kufrin. By Pauline Rogers. When cinematographer Ben Kufrin and director Youssef Delara came together for their fifth feature pairing, the romantic comedy The Bounce Back, driven by actor Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds), it was their largest-scale project to date. Given...
A Single Frame. By Pauline Rogers. All Images from A Single Frame / Courtesy of SMPSP. Main Image: Colin Firth during a break while shooting The Single Man in South Pasadena, CA (2009) / Photo by Melissa Moseley. It’s their third book and it’s big,...
The new indie feature, A Light Beneath Their Feet, focuses a warm, bright beam on mental illness and a family struggling for balance. By Pauline Rogers. All Photos courtesy of Emerging Pictures. Responsibility. It’s one of the weightiest words in the English...
Local 600 unit still photographers break down the hottest new trend in set photography – mirrorless cameras. By Pauline Rogers. Shorter working hours, tighter sets, complicated setups, and no time for compliance all conspire to make today’s unit stills position a...
It’s hard to ignore the bold statement of so many female-driven stories at Sundance 2016 – even if we’d love to see more women DP’s among those ranks. Indie film media wags are already calling Sundance 2016 “The Year...
