Production & Post-Production

Creating Nickel Boys’ Special Look

Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:34 -- Nick Dager

Directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Nickel Boys offers a poignant exploration of friendship, resilience and injustice. The feature dives into the lives of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two African American boys navigating the harrowing realities of a segregated reform school, Nickel Academy, in the Jim Crow South. Through its evocative storytelling and immersive visual approach, the movie captures the intensity of their experiences with both intimacy and immediacy. Central to achieving the feature’s distinct aesthetic was cinematographer Jomo Fray, whose collaboration with Ross brought a unique perspective to the project.

Subservience and AI in the Real World

Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:26 -- Herman DeBoard

Artificial intelligence fully blending into our daily lives is no longer a dream of science fiction. Director Scott Dale’s recent Netflix thriller Subservience stars Megan Fox as a lifelike robot housekeeper named Alice. The film dives deep into the worries many harbor about sharing our homes and workplaces with ultra-capable machine

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Focus: Disobedience is 2025 Göteborg Film Festival Theme

Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:14 -- Nick Dager

A strict dictator’s warning awaits the audience at the Göteborg Film Festival: "The art of film is a poison that destroys societies." In this year’s vignette film, the audience is urged to beware of hidden agendas – for the sake of society’s safety. The dictator’s message is clear: leave the cinema now or fall victim to the destructive forces of free art.

ASC Names Nominees for 2025 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Tue, 01/21/2025 - 10:45 -- Nick Dager

The American Society of Cinematographers has unveiled the nominees for its 2025 Outstanding Achievement Awards, spanning feature films, documentaries, television and music videos. Winners will be honored at the 39th Annual ASC Awards on February 23 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. For those who can't attend in person, the ceremony will be live streamed on society’s website.

Making The Fire Inside

Mon, 01/20/2025 - 09:38 -- Nick Dager

Watching The Fire Inside, the directorial debut of Mudbound’s Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison, ASC, you may feel like you’re leafing through a family photo album of a hometown hero who went on to shake the world. For their film, Morrison and director of photography Rina Yang, BSC have crafted a look that is both down-to-earth yet also larger-than-life. Each scene strives to capture the intimacy of a snapshot while simultaneously amplifying the mythology of a young woman who overcomes all obstacles to make history at the Olympics. The movie is based on the documentary T-Rex, which tells the real-life story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed in The Fire Inside by Ryan Destiny), a young Black boxer from Flint, Michigan, who fought her way to winning consecutive gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Numerous boxing matches give the film its kinetic energy, but at its heart, the movie is about family. Despite shooting primarily in Toronto, Morrison desired that Shields’ hometown of Flint be genuinely portrayed on the screen and personally led the second unit — dubbed the “Flint Unit” in the credits — to capture the city that in 2014 was plagued by a water crisis when lead and bacteria contaminated its water supply. Claressa’s rise to Olympic glory during this fractious time demonstrates the human potential to ascend difficult conditions and inspire everyone around her. Here is a conversation with the makers of The Fire Inside.

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Sundance Welcomes a New Sponsor

Mon, 01/20/2025 - 09:15 -- Nick Dager

Hollywood Event & PR Agency Roxstar Entertainment, the owner and producer of the annual film festival hospitality hub known as the Cinema Center, will once again take over the Sundance Mountains for the return of film premieres and festival events held in Park City, Utah, for the nation's top indie film festival. For 2025, the program welcomes a new title sponsor, Rendezvous Media Ventures, and rebrands as the Rendezvous Cinema Center.

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