A living legend and a towering presence in cinema, Oscar-winner Warren Beatty remains one of Hollywood’s last great male icons and last links to the old studio system. He starred in his first film, Sp ...
December 16, 2016
DP Rodrigo Prieto had spent the better part of his professional career as a cinematographer shooting such Hollywood blockbusters as The Wolf of Wall Street, Argo and Brokeback Mountain for directors M ...
December 12, 2016
Conrad Vernon co-directed 2016’s Sausage Party with Greg Tiernan. The animated feature about a sausage, out to discover the truth behind his existence, has taken in nearly $140M worldwide, far exceedi ...
December 8, 2016
Owen Suskind’s world is filled with Hollywood-crafted sound, culled from the comprehensive collection of Disney Classics animations. That’s because they play inside his head non-stop. “He’s a walking ...
January 9, 2017
Diego Vida is a CG/VFX Producer best known for working on feature films, including as a Visual Effects Artist on Mission Impossible, Fast & Furious, and GIJOE. He’s also contributed to the videoga ...
December 20, 2016
Joe Walker has established himself as the go-to editor for directors Denis Villeneuve and Steve McQueen. His relationship with McQueen includes cutting 12 Years A Slave (2013) and his short film Ashes ...
December 14, 2016
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the latest from director Ang Lee ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Life of Pi ) about a 19-year-old private who is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Ir ...
December 9, 2016
Editor Sebastián Sepúlveda recently collaborated with director Pablo Larrain on the new Fox Searchlight film Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman as the former First Lady. The film paints an intimate p ...
December 21, 2016
Bob Schachner is a Sound Designer with Alkemy X (www.alkemy-x.com), which has studios in New York City and Philadelphia. Here, he reflects on the trends affecting the audio post business, and new oppo ...
January 4, 2017
James Tucci is the CTO of Archion Technologies (http://www.archion.com), the Los Angeles-based provider of intelligent networked storage solutions designed specifically for post production and graphic ...
January 5, 2017
Sean Henry is an Executive Producer at Calabash (http://calabashanimation.com) in Chicago. The animation production studio is known for its award-winning work for the advertising and entertainment ind ...
December 19, 2016
Michael Nikonov is the Founder/Chief Technology Officer of iPi Soft (http://ipisoft.com), the Moscow, Russia-based developer of markerless motion capture software. Here, he talks about the challenges ...
January 11, 2017
Scottie Richardson is a Sound Designer/Audio Engineer with Lucky Post in Dallas (www.lucky-post.com). Here, he discusses the challenges of creating artful and effective sound design.
Tom Williams, co-founder and CEO at Ostmodern (www.ostmodern.co.uk) in London, discusses the themes that he and the team anticipate taking center-stage in 2017 across the Video On Demand space. Will i ...
Greg Allan is the CEO and Creative Director of Chicago’s Sonixphere (www.sonixphere.com), and a partner in Stir Post Audio (www.stirpost.com). Here, he looks at trends influencing music production.
December 15, 2016
Stir Post Audio, launched in 2015, offering clients two state-of-the-art locations in Chicago, each helmed by one of two engineers/sound designers on staff: Nick Bozzone, who migrated to Chicago after ...
Ronen Tanchum is the head of The Artery VFX's newly launched Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) division. The studio is based in New York City (www.thearteryvfx.com). Here, he looks at the stat ...
Greg Dolan is COO of Xytech (www.xytechsystems.com), the Chatsworth, CA-based creator of the MediaPulse facility management platform. Here, he discusses how companies like his stay relevant in a niche ...
Morten Tyldum’s ( The Imitation Game ) latest project for Sony, Passengers staring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, is the director’s first walk in space. A different sort of sci-fi adventure, it’s ...