tick tick... Boom! & In The Heights w/ Alice Brooks A.S.C
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Alice Brooks, ASC is a cinematographer who has photographed award-winning feature films (tick tick..BOOM and In The Heights), television shows and commercials and her next feature project is Director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the hit musical WICKED.
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Da 5 Bloods with Newton Thomas Sigel ASC.
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Newton Thomas Sigel is an accomplished Hollywood Cinematographer who has been at it for 40 years. Getting his start with Haskell Wexler on documentaries, shifting to Second Unit work with Oliver Stone, and then transitioning into DP work on a plethora of feature films after that. Some of his films include The Usual Suspects, Bohemian Rhapsody, Drive, Extraction, Da 5 Bloods, a slew of the X-Men films with Brian Singer, Valkyrie, Cherry, Fallen, Leatherheads, The Brothers Grimm, and many more.
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Tales From The Loop with Craig Wrobleski, CSC
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In more than 30 years behind the camera, Craig Wrobleski csc has had the opportunity to photograph projects of most every description.
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Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 2
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Paul Leonard-Morgan’s unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him
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Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 1
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Paul Leonard-Morgan’s unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him
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Costume Design in Unorthodox with Justine Seymour
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In this episode of Rack Focus we're talking with Justine Seymour who was the Costume Designer of Netflix's hit show Unorthodox. She has also recently worked on Netflix's Messiah and Apple's upcoming show The Mosquito Coast.
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Last Breath w/ Directors Richard da Costa & Alex Parkinson
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A deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to amazing archive this is the story of one man's impossible fight for survival.
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Moving Pictures with Director An Tran
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Director/Producer An Tran’s feature documentary debut Moving Pictures: Filmmakers and the Art of Cinematography premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year. Including insights from award-winning directors Ang Lee, Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Reed Morano and Ellen Kuras, this documentary takes viewers on a rare journey exploring the artists behind the world’s cinematic treasures.
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IT: Chapter Two & The 33 w/ Checco Varese, ASC
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Checco Varese, ASC recently lensed It: Chapter Two with Director Andy Muschietti.
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The World of Underwater Cinematography - Ian Seabrook (Part 2)
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Our conversation with Ian Seabrook continues where we left off, with Deadpool 2!
info_outlineOn our first episode of Rack Focus, Josh Hayes (Executive Director, Visual Anarchy) interviews Cinematographer Rodney Taylor.
Rodney Taylor, ASC is currently lensing Fox’s Shots Fired with director/executive producer Gina Prince Bythewood and executive producer Brian Grazer.
Taylor’s television credits also include: season two of HBO’s Ballers starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, which premieres July 17; season two and three of Getting On, the HBO medical comedy based on the British series of the same name; and season two of FX’s Married starring Judy Greer and Nat Faxon.
In 2014, Taylor lensed Supremacy with director Deon Taylor, a drama starring Danny Glover, Joe Anderson and Anson Mount about a paroled white supremacist and his girlfriend who take an African American family hostage. He also lensed Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey, a documentary starring Hal Holbrook, Emile Hirsh, Sean Penn and Martin Sheen. Both films premiered at the 2014Los Angeles Film Festival.
Other features Taylor shot include: Michael Kristoff’s Live at the Foxes Den, starring Jackson Rathbone; That Evening Sun, starring Mia Wasikowska and Hal Holbrook; Save Me, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; the powerful film Swimmers, which received acclaim as an official selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best New American Film at the Seattle Film Festival; and Grind, where Taylor was chosen for the InternationalC inematographers Guild Film Showcase in 1999 for his work on the 35mm short film.
Taylor is known for his IMAX cinematography, with films including: Wired to Win, a film about the Tour de France; the Academy Award nominated Alaska: Spirit of the Wild; and Ride Around the World, an international cowboy film. In 2003 Taylor received the Kodak Vision Award for his excellence and versatility in the IMAX format.
He has photographed extensively in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Japan, Alaska, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Taiwan and France, as well as in a plethora of state-side locations from New York City to Knoxville, Tennessee.