The Cinematography Podcast Episode 357: Lawrence Sher, ASC When Lawrence Sher, ASC took the job shooting Apex, he knew it was going to be both creatively and physically challenging. “The first time I landed in Australia where we shot the movie, we went on a scout in which I knew I wasn’t in good shape,” Sher admitted. “I’m like, how do I survive this movie, let alone bring cameras into these environments?” The new Netflix movie is a survival thriller starring Charlize Theron as Sasha, a skilled climber who is hunted by a killer (Taron Egerton) through the Australian mountains.
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 357: Lawrence Sher, ASC When Lawrence Sher, ASC
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 356: Tari Segal, ASC The Apple TV show Margo’s Got Money Troubles really resonated with cinematographer Tari Segal, ASC. As a working film professional, she and the entire crew saw something of themselves in the story of a young woman hustling to survive. “You have an industry you like to be a part of,” she reflects, “and you just kind of do what you can to keep surviving in it.” Segal came to the project through a recommendation from co-showrunner Eva Anderson, a colleague from the show Interior Chinatown. She then met with producing director Dearbhla
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The Cinematography Podcast Episode 355: Greta Zozula The Testaments, a sequel series to The Handmaid’s Tale, revisits the visual language of an iconic world and makes it feel genuinely new. Cinematographer Greta Zozula, who shot six episodes of the series, established the visual identity of The Testaments in episodes 1-3. The show tells Gilead’s story from the point of view of young women Agnes and Daisy, who are students at Aunt Lydia’s school for future wives. “When Handmaid’s came out, I watched the first season. I think what they did with that show was pretty incredible,” says Zozula. “As a
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 355: Greta Zozula The Testaments, a sequel series
Hunting Matthew Nichols is an indie horror film that’s shot as a mockumentary/found-footage movie about a documentary filmmaker investigating her brother’s disappearance 20 years earlier on Vancouver Island, Canada. The “found footage” genre done poorly usually involves shaky cams and forced exposition. But Hunting Matthew Nichols treats the camera not just as a recording device, but as an actual character. Writer/producer Sean Harris Oliver and cinematographer Justin Sebastian paid such close attention to detail that even the cameras selected for the film reflect what the characters inside the story would realistically have. Rather than using a high-end digital camera, Sebastian
Hunting Matthew Nichols is an indie horror film that’s shot as a
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 353: Isaac Bauman Cinematographer Isaac Bauman captured the visual identities of two different sides of the horror spectrum in They Will Kill You and Faces of Death. Both horror films are currently in theaters. “It’s a lot of fun. It’s one of those instances of when it rains, it pours,” he says. “This has happened to me before, for Loki season two. And that same month, I had another two horror films come out, The Haunting of the Queen Mary and Deliver Us. I feel incredibly blessed to have two great movies coming out at the
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 353: Isaac Bauman Cinematographer Isaac Bauman captured the
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 352: Ted Hope Producer Ted Hope has worked in the film business for over 40 years, producing dozens of features with several Academy Awards nominations and wins. After leaving Amazon Studios in 2020, Hope went back to his roots as an independent producer and began writing his Substack blog, Hope For Film. He argues that the independent film ecosystem as we know it has reached its final days. However, far from being a tragedy, Ted definitely has hope for film. He sees what’s happening in the industry today as a necessary seismic shift. Hope has a
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 352: Ted Hope Producer Ted Hope has worked