Film Making

The Warwick Drive-in, August 2020 (Photo by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli) 2020 would be my year of festival-ready travel. Instead I went home, the last place I ever wanted...

"The White Tiger," Ramin Bahrani's highly regarded adaptation of the acclaimed 2008 novel, has climbed to # 2 on the Netflix movie charts every day. Little has changed in the...

AMC has raised enough money to survive the winter. We were concerned that AMC wouldn't be back to show movies if COVID left us. Theaters everywhere have fallen apart...

To clarify some general terms and principles, I would like to take a few minutes to define some areas where there might otherwise be confusion. If you are new...

FilmConvert has just announced that a new picture profile has been added for the Panasonic LUMIX S5. You now have the ability to quickly and easily rate Panasonic S5...

From hidden action cameras to improvised spy tips, use this run-and-gun guide to smartly film documentary projects. Just like great investigative journalism, documentary filming is about filming the very things...

Kenneth Branagh was only 29 years old when he wrote, directed and starred in a rousing adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V, which was widely acclaimed when it was...

Edward Burns' second TV series may be too laid back and archetypal for some, but it raises broad questions about personal and professional priorities with purpose, strength and charm. Intent...

"I wanted to show people what actually happened." When thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, cameras rolled like no other angry mob in the history...

Making films used to be a team game. Having a film director writing the work was a nice critical theory, but not real. Bergman had Sven Nykvist for the...

Sonnet has released two new models in its eGPU Breakaway Puck range of external GPU / hub systems. These differ in the built-in graphics unit, either a Radeon RX...

Harness the incredible power of the most popular video sharing app for your movie and video customers and brands. It's now 2021 and we can safely say that TikTok is...

Matthew Jensen and Patty Jenkins on the set of Wonder Woman 1984 "The reality still can't be beat," says Matthew Jensen. This may seem like an inopportune proclamation from the cameraman...

The horror sequel by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt is released for the fourth time in theaters by Paramount. "A Quiet Place Part II" Paramount Paramount Pictures' "A Quiet Place Part II"...

We remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week and to cinema that carries on his legacy. The civil rights movement in America did not end with Dr. King's...

Aim high and far. One day in July 2020 I received an email that I was hoping for but certainly not expected: Official selection of the Raindance Film Festival 2020...

Blackmagic Design has just released an updated version of its suite of desktop video drivers for several of its hardware solutions to output the correct video signals. Blackmagic Desktop...

With these fast external SSDs, videographers can back up and back up their files anywhere. Let's take a look. Improvements in camera technology have resulted in enormous files that can...

John Magaro in the first cow (Photo courtesy A24 / Allyson Riggs) Even when a global pandemic hasn't messed everything up, year-end lists and surveys often sound slightly apologetic, recognizing...

It took seven months for HBO Max to be available on Roku. Check here if your streaming services of choice are available on your devices. All products and services offered...