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FILMMAKER Monday December 24, 2012
David Chase loves the Rolling Stones—as anyone who watched The Sopranos knows. The director behind the iconic HBO series has now released his first feature film, Not Fade
Away, about a bunch of suburban kids from New Jersey who pick up guitars and grow their hair after they see the Stones on TV in 1964. As Filmmaker notes, both Chase and the new movie’s
protagonist came of age in suburban New Jersey, both played drums in a band, and both struggled under a dominating father. But in an interview Chase himself says the film is not autobiographical. Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Wednesday November 26, 2014
In a recent Los Angeles radio interview, Brazilian director Petra Costa sat alongside actor and producer Tim Robbins to speak about her 2012 documentary Elena, which tells the tragic story of her older sister’s journey from Brazil to New
York and later suicide. Costa uses the film, now released in the US, to find closure, notes Indiewire, which features videos of the interview. Costa also assesses the art of documentary filmmaking in
Brazil: "There is a strong history of documentary films, but not inward-looking," she says. Read the full Story >>
VULTURE Monday February 11, 2013
Steven Soderbergh has directed 26 films since his 1989 debut, sex, lies, and videotape—the film often credited with kick-starting the indie-film revolution of the 1990s. Now he says
he has directed his final film, the recently released Side Effects. In a fascinating interview with Vulture, he talks about his career, what he plans to do next—and whether he’s
really retiring from directing. NoFilmSchool also features a video interview with the “DIY-minded director” about the language of cinema
and his insistence on using as few shots as possible to tell a story. Must read. Read the full Story >>
KEN WEINGART Thursday September 9, 2021
Photographer Ken Weigart’s latest podcast interview features fine-art photographer Sara Bennett, noted for her humane look at women prisoners with life sentences. Bennett was a public defender in New York for 18 years, and has an intimate knowledge of and connections with the prison system. Her recent series include: “Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences,” and “Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project." Read the full Story >>
DP Review Wednesday March 23, 2016
“You know, one thing I can tell you is that I'm the worst geek in the world! Sometimes I don't even know how to turn on the camera,” says cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki in an interview
at tech site DP Review. Lubezki recently won his third straight Oscar — for his work on The Revenant — so his lack of geek skills may come as a surprise. Nonetheless, he
admits he tests a lot of equipment before choosing what he’ll use on a project. “I think now we're in a very good place where the digital cameras are allowing us to do many things we
couldn't do with film,” he says. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Monday March 18, 2013
Recently we took note of an interesting video interview in which HollyShorts Film Festival co-founder Daniel Sol revealed some of the reasons fests reject films. Now NoFilmSchool features more from
the interview, with Sol discussing how much importance festival committees attach to the production values of films, relative to the importance of execution. “If a film doesn’t have a
story, you’ve spent a lot of money for essentially nothing,” Sol says. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday November 23, 2015
We recently spotlighted photographer Rob Whitworth’s latest release, a tour of Istanbul created with the time-lapse technique he calls
“flow motion.” The video has been hit, with 1.5 million views so far, notes DIY Photography, which has in interview with Whitworth about how the video was created. “I do find every
project takes me through the full spectrum of emotions; moments of despair, moments of jubilation et cetera,” he says. Read the full Story >>
VULTURE Tuesday December 30, 2014
Our culture remained obsessed with celebrities in 2014—creating a demand for more celebrity photography. Vulture has a selection of the best entertainment photos of the year, including a Craig
McDean shot of odd actor Shia LaBeouf (Interview); a Chuck Close portrait of Oprah Winfrey (Vanity Fair); a Nigel Parry close-up of Michael Keaton (Esquire); a study of Kanye West by Steven Klein
(Interview); and a haunting tin-type portrait of Philip Seymour Hoffman by Victoria Will (Esquire). Read the full Story >>
Daily Beast Monday March 12, 2012
One of the people at this weekend’s glitzy Women in the World Summit was noted photojournalist Linsey Addario, who taped an interview with the Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg. “Is
there anything about being a mother that enhances your work or makes it harder?” asks Goldberg. “We all struggle with this,” replies Addario. “We all put our lives in danger.
Whether you’re a mother or father, you’re a parent.” Tough question. Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Wednesday April 27, 2016
“Right now, browsers are capable of all kinds of animation, but you need to know JavaScript or CSS to make things happen,” says web-animation evangelist Rachel Nabors in an interview at
Motionographer. Nabors talks about a project she created for the Mozilla Foundation, Dev Tools Challenger, which is “one
part marine science lesson, one part hands-on web animation tutorial.” She also provides an overview of the web-animation landscape: Don’t know coding? Animation tools are now being built
into browsers. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday February 13, 2017
“I was afraid, but I did
not panic,” says AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici in an interview with the New York Times. In December, Ozbilici was covering a photo exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, when a 22-year-old off-duty
police officer, Mevlut Mert Altintas, assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrey G. Karlov. His picture of Altintas shouting after the killing has been named the Photo of the Year in the
2017 World Press Photo contest. “There was no one between the gunman and myself, Ozbilici says in this interview. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Tuesday August 14, 2012
In an incisive interview, the general counsel of the National Press Photographers Association, Mickey Osterreicher, tells James Estrin of the New York Times that the so-called “war
on photography” is very real: “Every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing more than taking a photograph in a public place,” says Osterreicher. He notes that the war on
terrorism “somehow morphed into an assault on photography” … at the same time that many newspaper photogs lost their jobs—and the legal backing of big news organizations.
Must read Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Thursday June 6, 2013
Japanese director Takashi Miike has been surprising audiences for years with everything from stomach-wrenching horror films to slick yakuza crime films to happy-go-lucky children’s films, and
at Cannes this year he debuted what filmmaker calls his most mainstream film yet, a smart thriller called Shield of Straw, in which a team of security police must transport a psychopathic
killer across Japan to Tokyo for trial. In an interview, Miike offers ten lessons for filmmaking, starting with this: A movie is driven by characters, not special effects. Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER IQ Tuesday February 24, 2015
On the other end of the animation spectrum there is Eric Goldberg, best known for his work with Disney—he animated Aladdin and directed Pocahontas. Filmmaker IQ features a
charming interview with the artist, who talks about discovering animation as a child in the 1950s, when studios began showing their theatrical releases on television. In the video, Goldberg describes
what drew him to animation, and it’s a thought worth remembering: “It has what I call ‘inherent joy,’” he says. “My favorite animation is the animation that looks
like it’s enjoying itself.” Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFO Monday March 18, 2013
Italian director Matteo Garrone says his new film Reality, a comedy about a fishmonger who grows obsessed with appearing on the reality television series Grande Fratello—the
Italian Big Brother—is not about reality TV at all. “It’s a MacGuffin,” he says, using Alfred Hitchcock’s term for a misleading narrative device. The real
subject of the film, Garrone tells Artinfo in a spirited interview, is the nature of capitalism. Garrone’s last film, Gomorrah, looked at the business practices of organized crime in
Naples, Italy. Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Tuesday May 14, 2013
You’ve got to love the guys at Neko Neko Films. (“Neko Neko,” they explain, is Indonesian for “a novel idea that only
makes things worse” … like spending most of your formative years making movies with your friends, or going to school and majoring in your favorite hobby.) They happen to make great
tutorial videos, like 3 Tricks for Your Impossibly Small Film Crew, which MAP has previously mentioned. If you’re getting started making docs, you’ll want to watch the
group’s new one, 10 Steps To Shooting Your First DIY Interview, featured at Fstoppers. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday August 14, 2025
Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy recently when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The former CNN anchor had promoted the video interview on social media as a “one of a kind interview,” but he quickly faced criticism online in response to the stunt, notes The Guardian.
Read the full Story >>
Hammer to Nail Wednesday November 7, 2012
Mexican filmmaker Everardo González is emerging as one of the leading lights in Latin America’s thriving documentary scene, notes Hammer to Nail, and his new film Drought is
having a stellar festival run. The feature doc focuses on the people of Cuates de Australia, who live on a stretch of plains in Coahuila (the Mexican state that borders Texas) and wait through months
of waterlessness for seasonal rain. “When the rain comes death leaves the place. So it was really cinematic, the story,” says González in an enlightening interview. Read the full Story >>
YouTube Monday October 20, 2014
You’ve been reading about Sandro Miller in PPD and Motion Arts Pro recently—his project in which actor John
Malkovich pays homage to iconic photos and his International Motion Art
Awards-winning video featuring Malkovich as a coked-up club denizen have been big hits. Now Gary Martin and Rob Grimm of RGF EDU have a video interview with Miller—or simply Sandro, as he is
better known—in which he shares his thoughts on his life and career. It’s a solid hour of inspiration, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
News Shooter Friday July 24, 2015
The Redrock Micro One Man Crew Director is the newest version of the company’s popular all-in-one
motorized parabolic slider—essentially, a slider with a curved rail that allows your camera to move back and forth while keeping your subject at the same position in the frame. News Shooter test
drives the new model, which has been redesigned with an ultra-low noise drive system to keep it more stealthy at interview speeds and quieter at higher speeds. “This can be used to great effect
for creating nice subtle movement in interview situations and when shooting b-roll, notes NS. Read the full Story >>
