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
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 351: Marshall Adams, ASC and Paul Donachie When the Apple TV show Pluribus hit screens, it carried a familiar visual signature crafted by cinematographers Marshall Adams, ASC and Paul Donachie. The two have worked together for nearly a decade under showrunner Vince Gilligan on Better Call Saul. Their shared aesthetic allowed them to alternate episodes seamlessly on Pluribus. “Paul and I have very similar aesthetics,” Adams explains. “There was a shorthand, definitely. We know each other’s style and feel, so we could have conversations about particular scenes and know exactly what the other was thinking.” Donachie,
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 351: Marshall Adams, ASC and Paul Donachie When
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 350: Lawrence Sher, ASC When cinematographer Lawrence Sher, ASC first read the script for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride, he didn’t have a plan. In fact, he wasn’t sure if his ideas would work. “The best thing when I read any script, is that I don’t know how the hell we’re going to do it,” says Sher. “When I read something and I’m like, whoa, this is full of all kinds of big challenges and ideas and techniques and it feels a bit scary, that’s when I get really excited and I really want to do it
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 350: Lawrence Sher, ASC When cinematographer Lawrence Sher,
The Cinematography Podcast 2026 Oscar Special Jenelle Riley, three-time Emmy-winning entertainment journalist and host, chats with Ben and Illya for our SEVENTH annual Oscar nominations special. With a focus on cinematography, they discuss what they liked, what will win, what should win, and their favorite movies of the year that may not have been recognized. They discuss this year’s nominations, including the likeliest Best Picture and Best Director contenders, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. F1 is also mentioned as an outlier for the category, although the cinematography by Claudio Miranda is excellent. This year’s
The Cinematography Podcast 2026 Oscar Special Jenelle Riley, three-time Emmy-winning entertainment journalist