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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson’s talent as a documentary cinematographer often has us empathizing with her subjects, feeling their joy, triumph of the human spirit and oftentimes unspeakable tragedy. Now in her highest profile directorial endeavor to date, the documentary simply titled Cameraperson, Johnson casts...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Alma Har'el
Alma Har’el—whose spotmaking/branded content roosts are Epoch Films in the U.S., and B-Reel Films, which she recently joined, in the U.K.—has created many of her own opportunities as a director. Now Har’el is proactively looking to generate more opportunities in general for women filmmakers across...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Garth Davis
SHOOT has chronicled the career of director Garth Davis over the years, spanning such developments as his 2010 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award nomination as Best Commercial Director of the Year (for U.S. Cellular’s “Shadow Puppets” out of Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco) and an AICP...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Welcome to the Special Spring 2016 Directors Series SHOOT>e.dition
Welcome to the Special Spring 2016 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our profiles include three of this year’s DGA Award winners: Alejandro G. Iñárritu who earned the feature film honor for The Revenant; Matthew Heineman who earned best documentary distinction for Cartel Land; and Andreas...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Anthony and Joe Russo
It doesn’t get much more patriotic than Captain America and the Super Bowl. And that’s just part of the creative range of work being turned out by the Russo brothers—Anthony and Joe—whose directorial exploits encompass high-profile theatrical features, TV, commercials and branded content. On the...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Andreas Nilsson
First-time nominee Andreas Nilsson of Biscuit Filmworks won the DGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercials in February on the strength of three entries, one of which—”Emily’s Oz” for Comcast/Xfinity—is atypical in the sense that a Guild honor is usually reserved for recognition of a...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Sophie Muller
Sophie Muller is an accomplished director best known for her music videos spanning collaborations with such artists as No Doubt, Shakira, Blur, Beyonce, Kings of Leon, Garbage, The Killers, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, the Dixie Chicks, Beck, One Republic, James Bay, One Direction, Selena Gomez, Sam...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Daniels
For Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the directing duo Daniels, this year’s Sundance Film Festival was a roller coaster ride—the ups and downs generated by Swiss Army Man, their feature filmmaking debut. “It was a crazy journey within a tight timeframe,” related Scheinert. “You’re smashed...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Tricia Brock
There’s something about breakthrough series and director Tricia Brock. One day while shooting an episode of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, Brock got a phone call. She looked down at her cell phone and saw that it was from Jules Daly, president of RSA Films. The timing was right in that the call...
Monday, Apr. 4, 2016
Spring 2016 Director's Profile: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
With Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in 2015 and The Revenant this year, Alejandro G. Iñárritu has made industry history, becoming the first director to win the DGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film two consecutive years—and the third filmmaker ever to earn the Best...

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