James Kapner and I have been trying to collaborate with Chali 2na for some time now. Things fell through at the last minute last summer for his single, “Graff Time“, but we finally made it happen on one long Autumn […]
While I usually stick to cinematography topics, inspiration pulled me out of bed after only 3 hours of sleep and forced me to write this. Please share these thoughts with anybody you know who just moved to Los Angeles with […]
So I alluded to this on Twitter, but I’m going to expand a little more on the subject of reel cutting. On Tuesday October 19th, Film Independent held a gathering for Cinematographers and Directors to connect. The event centered around […]
The First Annual Oaxaca FilmFest: Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente y Video Oaxaca will feature the short film I shot and produced, “Lucia No Besa a Nadie” (dir. Emanuel Gironi), as part of its narrative short film program. For those […]
The James Kapner, who we all know as the music video director with whom I’ve collaborated on many occasions, is also a talented MC. Back when we first plotted to work together in the summer of 2007, he gave me […]
My decision to return to British Columbia for the first time in over 10 years was a very sound one! Coming on the heels of the “Hours Before” screening at the San Diego Film Festival, meant a lot of traveling. After […]
The most frustrating aspects of the 7D are as follows (in no particular order) –for the record–I haven’t searched the web for similar lists, these are all 100% my thoughts after spending 7 days in the backwoods of Maine with […]
After a crazy 7-day shoot in northern Maine, Lucas McNelly’s film, “Up Country” is in on hard drives. This was genuinely one of the most fun film sets that I have ever been a part of (yes, it ranks up […]
The 29th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival will include Joel David Moore’s “Hours Before” as part of its High School Stories/Teenage Hell program of short films. I’m very excited to attend the festival and will be there for both the […]
First day of Up Country is in the can…and was quite an adventure. We had trouble locking down a grip/electric house because of an insurance issue, an actor who headed in to take a shower five minutes before call time, […]
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