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Welcome to the Special Fall 2013 Edition of SHOOT's Directors Series. Since our fall Directors Series coincides with the first installment of our annual multi-part The Road To Oscar Series, there's a bit of crossover between the two features in this issue as we have directors who are...
With a filmography marked by emotional resonance and social relevance, John X. Carey attained his highest profile example of those dynamics coming together in the form of a lauded campaign out of Ogilvy Brazil: Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches."
In the Dove short, a forensic sketch artist--...
Despite having just two feature films under his belt--the second being All Is Lost which screened last week at the New York Film Festival--director/writer J.C. Chandor already has a diverse filmography.
His first, Margin Call, featured an ensemble cast (Kevin Spacey,...
Quite a departure from his acclaimed directorial debut Crazy Heart (which won two Oscars in 2010, including for Jeff Bridges as Best Lead Actor), director/writer Scott Cooper's second feature, Out of the Furnace, is a grim, gritty look at a beleaguered corner of the real...
The transition to the advertising arena for feature filmmaker Drake Doremus has been relatively seamless and just as lauded as his theatrical fare. In 2011, Like Crazy marked Doremus' second feature in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival; the romantic drama...
Getting a phone call from Steven Poster, ASC, president of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600), that your work made the cut at the Emerging Cinematographer Awards never gets old.
Just ask Michael Alden Lloyd who first heard from Poster last year when the...
The Toronto International Film Festival, which wrapped earlier this week, is often viewed as a harbinger of things to come at the Academy Awards. Since 2007, every Best Picture Oscar winner has played at the Toronto event, from No Country For Old Men to this year's Argo....
There's a bit of deja vu in the field of nominees for the 8th annual HPA Awards, presented by the Hollywood Post Alliance. For example, each of the past three years, editor Chris Franklin of Big Sky Editorial has won the HPA Award for Outstanding Editing of a Commercial. Now he's in the running...
A resurgence in original music.
Investing energy and resources into developing a great song in the campaign ideation process represents a smart way to go, as exemplified in "Dumb Ways To Die."
History is becoming a more relevant subject--a prime case in point being an artist's...