Robert Hoffman moved up in the filmmaking ranks the old-fashioned way — he got lucky. Years of working as a post supervisor and assistant editor paid off when he was post-supervising Ghost World for director Terry Zwigoff.... »
Indies are using NLEs like Final Cut Pro and Avid Xpress Pro because they’re cost-effective – and when filmmakers are strapped for cash, they start working even more creatively with the tools available to them. ... »
The newest work from animator Bill Plympton is a music video for Kanye West, meaning a new generation of viewers may be tuning in to his wavelength.... »
Scott Gillen started his career as a stunt driver and segued into becoming an accomplished commercial shooter. Film & Video asked him about shooting cars and motorcycles at 100 mph.... »
There's nothing unusual about the audio workflow between sound guys Eric Lalicata and Ken Skoglund—except that they're working on two different continents.... »
Tariq Anwar is modest about an editing career that includes the iconic American Beauty, Wings of the Dove, Stage Beauty and The Madness of King George. He got his chops editing at the BBC for 18 years, which he calls “the best training possible.”... »
With sex, lies and videotape in 1989, Steven Soderbergh re-invented the indie feature. Since then, he’s ping-ponged between big Hollywood crowd-pleasers (Oceans 12, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight) and his own, challenging experiments in filmmaking (The Limey, Full Frontal).... »
Cinematographer Robert Elswit has had quite a year. With two high-profile projects playing on theater screens during Oscar season, he’s become the go-to guy for socially conscious drama — on both Syriana and the monochromatic Good Night, and Good Luck... »
Bobby Beck AnimationMentor.com Bobby Beck was an animator and character developer at Pixar until September 2004, when he left to launch an online animation school, AnimationMentor.com... »
Garage-pop band The Greenhornes debuted their first music
video, "Pattern Skies," fresh from delivering the soundtrack to Jim
Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers. Given two-and-a-half
weeks to concept, shoot, edit and animate the video, Lightborne
(Cincinatti, OH) juggled production and post.... »
