Rack Focus

Rack Focus is an educational podcast that dives deeper into the technical side of Hollywood. For film geeks, by film geeks. Rack Focus is a offshoot of Visual Anarchy, a non-profit that makes free and sliding scale videos for philanthropists in need.

tick tick... Boom! & In The Heights w/ Alice Brooks A.S.C 01/04/2022

tick tick... Boom! & In The Heights w/ Alice Brooks A.S.C 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. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/21671510

Da 5 Bloods with Newton Thomas Sigel ASC. 01/20/2021

Da 5 Bloods with Newton Thomas Sigel ASC. 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. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/17620679

Tales From The Loop with Craig Wrobleski, CSC 10/26/2020

Tales From The Loop with Craig Wrobleski, CSC In more than 30 years behind the camera, Craig Wrobleski csc has had the opportunity to photograph projects of most every description. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/16544834

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 2 09/12/2020

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 2 Paul Leonard-Morgan’s unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/15984641

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 1 09/12/2020

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 1 Paul Leonard-Morgan’s unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/15984401

Costume Design in Unorthodox with Justine Seymour 08/13/2020

Costume Design in Unorthodox with Justine Seymour 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. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/15601508

Last Breath w/ Directors Richard da Costa & Alex Parkinson 05/12/2020

Last Breath w/ Directors Richard da Costa & Alex Parkinson 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. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/14387666

Moving Pictures with Director An Tran 04/15/2020

Moving Pictures with Director An Tran 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. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/13988060

IT: Chapter Two & The 33 w/ Checco Varese, ASC 10/14/2019

IT: Chapter Two & The 33 w/ Checco Varese, ASC Checco Varese, ASC recently lensed It: Chapter Two with Director Andy Muschietti. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/11511959

The World of Underwater Cinematography - Ian Seabrook (Part 2) 10/14/2019

The World of Underwater Cinematography - Ian Seabrook (Part 2) Our conversation with Ian Seabrook continues where we left off, with Deadpool 2! /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/11635118

The World of Costume Design with Antoinette Messam 03/19/2019

The World of Costume Design with Antoinette Messam Antoinette Messam has built an enviable career for herself in film and television. Her costumes can be seen in the Netflix original, Hold the Dark for director Jeremy Saulnier, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Riley Keogh and Jeffrey Wright, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. For her work on the film she received a Canadian Alliance of Film & /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/9050954

The World of Underwater Cinematography - Ian Seabrook 05/18/2018

The World of Underwater Cinematography - Ian Seabrook Underwater director of photography Ian Seabrook’s trailblazing work complements and enhances a story’s imagery to create cutting-edge visuals. Seabrook recently completed underwater unit photography on It Chapter 2, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass; director Albert Hughes’ survival drama Alpha; and the pilot for TNT’s Snowpiercer. His previous underwater photography includes Deadpool 2 for director David Leitch; Jason Reitman’s motherhood comedy Tully, starting Charlize Theron; Walt Disney’s Pirate of the Caribbean: Dad Men All No Tales; and director Dan Israelite’s Power Rangers starring Elizabeth Banks and Bryan Cranston. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780414/ /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/6606948

Get Out & More with Toby Oliver 03/06/2018

Get Out & More with Toby Oliver Our chat with Toby ranges from his start in Australia, moving to LA in 2013 for his collaborations with Blumhouse Media, unintentionally becoming a Horror film Cinematographer, working on the Academy Award winning film GET OUT with Jordan Peele, and his most recent film Happy Death Day. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/6336582

Episode 005 - Giles Nutgens, BSC: part 2 09/04/2017

Episode 005 - Giles Nutgens, BSC: part 2 We continue our conversation with lauded Cinematographer Giles Nuttgens in the second part of our discussion. Ranging from the technical aspects of Anthropomorphic both historically and currently, his partnership with David Mackenzie and last year's Oscar Nominated success Hell or High Water, to the "challenge of his career" filming Semih Kaplanoğlu's black and white film epic Grain, and some recommendations of great cinematographers to study. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/5705755

Episode 004 - Giles Nutgens, BSC: part 1 08/21/2017

Episode 004 - Giles Nutgens, BSC: part 1 We speak with lauded cinematographer Giles Nuttgens about his career as Cinematographer ranging from recent projects like Academy Award nominated Hell or High Water with Director David Mackenzie’s and Starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, Nuttgens earned a 2017 BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Cinematography for his work. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/5662742

Episode 003 - The Land w/ Steve Holleran 08/18/2017

Episode 003 - The Land w/ Steve Holleran Executive Produced by Nas and featuring Erykah Badu, THE LAND tells the story of four teenage boys who devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio to pursue a dream life of professional skateboarding. But caught in the web of the local Queen-pin, their motley brotherhood is tested, threatening to make this summer their last. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/5654989

Episode 002 - Human The Documentary 08/12/2016

Episode 002 - Human The Documentary We speak with Creative Producer Florent Girard about the largest scale documentary that has ever been filmed: Human. Spanning across 60 countries and with over 2000 interviews filmed Human is a look at the mankind in the grandest of scales. Directed by famed photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand it has the distinction of being the first film screened at the United Nations Council. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/4587761

Rodney Taylor, ASC 08/12/2016

Rodney Taylor, ASC We talk with Cinematographer Rodney Taylor about his years working as an award winning IMAX camera operator, his most recent successes with TV including HBO's Ballers starring Dwayne "Rock" Johnson, and Shots Fired (working with Jonathan Demme). and a slew of other films Rodney lensed included the critically acclaimed Swimmers and how how maybe his best film might be one of his least known. /episode/index/show/rackfocus/id/4587621

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