In this video, three old friends – Janusz Kamiński, Wally Pfister, ASC and Phedon Papamichael, ASC – look back on their early careers together with an eye to distilling crucial lessons for today’s aspiring filmmakers. These master filmmakers recall the mindset and choices that put them…
In this video, master filmmakers discuss what to consider when making career choices. Using examples from their own experience, they offer sage advice on choosing the right projects, avoiding career dead ends and pigeonholes, and maintaining the ability to choose projects for the right reasons. Other…
The principals discuss the ins and outs of collaboration with directors, productions designers, assistant directors and other filmmaking pros. What is Janusz Kaminski’s procedure with Steven Spielberg, and how does that differ from that of a low budget independent shoot? Why is early involvement…
Topics explored in this conversation include the ways that changing technology affects aesthetics, the pros and cons of owning your own equipment, and the advantages and disadvantages of widely available filmmaking tools. Pro filmmakers urge those starting out to focus on the story, and to make sure…
The technological mysteries of postproduction are untangled in this conversation, as three top cinematographers reveal the thought processes behind their decisions regarding digital intermediate, digital cameras, and the human relationships that go along with these changing tools. Deftly managing the…
In this video, Janusz Kamiński, Wally Pfister, ASC and Phedon Papamichael, ASC give viewers a fascinating and bluntly honest glimpse into their personal lives, imparting some of the hard but important lessons they’ve learned about maintaining a healthy balance between work and family, ego and humility,…
In this wide-ranging interview, executive producer Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) looks back on how he broke into filmmaking as a writer, and gives a detailed look at the mindset of the show runner behind one of today’s biggest television hits. Mazzara’s observations constitute a fascinating…
Editor Kevin Tent’s credits include more than half a dozen films with Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth, Election, Sideways, The Descendants, About Schmidt, Nebraska), as well as Girl, Interrupted; Mr. Woodcock; and The Golden Compass. In this conversation, Tent recalls his earliest endeavors in the…
Alles funkelt und leuchtet. Der Regisseur Hannes Hug sitzt als kleiner Junge vor dem Fernseher. über den Bildschirm flimmert die TV-Sendung "Teleboy". Fasziniert von Glitzer, Glamour und Ruhm träumt er sich in die Welt des Showbusiness. Da will er hin! Als junger Erwachsener schafft…
Shocking Proof that Hitler Did Not Die in the Bunker! Exposed! Hitler did not die in Berlin bunker! Adolf Hitler and hundreds of his most senior commanders escaped to South America at the end of World War 2. Even more shocking, proof that the Allied Governments knew he was still alive and helped…
IMAGINATRIX - the Terence McKenna Experience is a new kind of film, an ecstatic cinema overfull with ideas, electrons, and indicators of other realms. Terence McKenna revitalized and re-valorized psychedelia, keeping alive a crucial, yet criminal idea that ordinary people have a birthright to psychedelic…
Surviving a decade in business is already a tough prospect, but to make it to 100 years is an achievement to celebrate. In this series, we learn more about The Centennials – Asian companies that have thrived for a century and are still going strong. Their histories, challenges and their business…
