Video Village, Indie-Style
Not every director is suited for low-budget indie filmmaking, and that’s OK if you’re Terrence Malick or David Fincher. But chances are, you’re not…or not yet, anyway. I get a fair number of calls from biggish directors and producers who are having trouble raising money for their …
We just wrapped production on the indie feature, NANCY PLEASE. For the first week and a half we shot in New Rochelle where we took over two floors of a house that served as our protagonist’s apartment. The commute has been grueling. Our sound guy stayed on location, which saved …
Hello, World. Throughout the year I will be posting dispatches about my journeys as a cinematographer. Since I am currently deep in the bowels of preproduction on Nancy, Please, an independent feature directed by Andrew Semans, let’s start with talking about the joys of pre-production. The film is a dark …
The director/cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes has been one of my best friends for over a decade. Since meeting our freshman year at NYU, we have worked together on no less than a hundred short films, music videos, features, and commercials. I edited the first feature documentary he directed, Brock Enright: …
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