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Without Arrows. Delwin Fiddler Jr., star of Jonathan Olshefski (a "25 New Face" of 2017) and Elizabeth Day’s Without Arrows, grew up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota, where he found his calling as a grass dancer (which led to championships on the pow-wow circuit and eventually even international fame.
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“It Was a Bit of a Rough Ride”: David Robert Mitchell on
Mar 19, 2015 · Mitchell: I’ll probably do some other films that primarily deal with younger people, but I have a bunch of stuff with many different characters at many different age groups as well. Filmmaker: When you were deciding to make the movie and structure it as an ominous thing that’s always following people who have sex, was it in your mind that you were following but also subverting ’70s ...
“It’s Disturbing to Me How Relevant They Are”: Gregg Araki on …
Sep 13, 2023 · Araki: The production designer of Nowhere, Patti Podesta, her background is in studio art and stuff, and a lot of her department were Cal Art students.So, there was a lot of art stuff going on, particularly in the production design. And the late, great, Thérèse DePrez did the production design of Doom Generation, and it was the same thing. It was the first time I’d ever had a production ...
Fall 2024 - Filmmaker Magazine
The New You: Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man. Aaron Schimberg has always had a personal interest in facial disfigurement. The New York–based writer-director was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, along with other medical issues, and has spent the majority of his filmmaking career grappling with people’s perception of him.
“This Isn’t Just Any AI”: Director Pete Sillen on Bina48 and His ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Filmmaker: I think of you as someone who shoots, who has a relationship with subjects in the room, so it’s interesting that you basically made a heavily archival version of this film before you got to even shoot. Sillen: In the end, I’m a camera person. And with this, I kind of felt like I was making a film with a hand tied behind my back. In the end, this is probably 25% archival, which ...
“The Marvel Paradigm is to Come at It Like a Movie”: Kari …
May 25, 2021 · Director Kari Skogland has long been a master of tonally complex television, having helmed episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead and many other beloved series; she also executive produced and directed several episodes of one of the best limited series of the last ten years, the Showtime Roger Ailes drama The Loudest Voice.
Daydreaming, Neuroscience and Screenwriting: The Imaginative …
Dec 15, 2022 · Course assignments include listening to specially created soundscapes in the dark and writing stories in response; viewing photographs that are structured and yet slightly surreal and, again, writing a story; keeping a dream journal written from bed upon awakening; and writing two screenplays based on the dream journals.
“There Were No Easy Answers to My Questions”: Iliana Sosa on …
Mar 11, 2022 · Iliana Sosa’s What We Leave Behind is an astonishingly intimate labor of love. The film emerged from Sosa’s desire to document her grandfather Julián, a proudly hardworking man who first left his native Mexico back in the early 1940s to join the US government’s Bracero program, which brought in farm workers to remedy the WWII labor shortage.
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