Writer/director Chris Nash’s horror film In a Violent Nature, which screened at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, tracks a ravenous zombie creature as it moves through a secluded forest. Produced by Shudder Films, it’s a twist on typical slasher movies in that the audience walks with the killer, not the victims, and therefore gets an unexpected perspective.
By Randi Altman
Jason Oldak is a cinematographer with almost two decades of experience across large- and small-scale feature films, episodic television, documentaries and numerous commercial projects. He recently shot episodes of Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman.
Oldak was nominated for the ASC award for Limited or Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for his work on Episode 7,
The Sundance documentary film Skywalkers: A Love Story focuses on a Russian daredevil couple — Ivan Beerkus and Angela Nikolau — who, in an effort to save their career and relationship, takes a journey across the globe to Malaysia to climb the world’s tallest skyscraper at the time, called Merdeka, and perform a dangerous stunt on the spire.
Saw X is the latest installment in the Saw film series, one of the highest grossing horror franchises of all time, and it brings the franchise back to its original roots. Producer Oren Koules recently explained that Saw X actually takes place a few weeks after the first Saw ended,
LA-based cinematographer Jeff Powers’ work spans features, episodics, commercials and music videos. Recent credits include Heaven’s Gate for HBO Max, Muscles and Mayhem for Netflix and Slipnot’s video for Yen for Offsite Films.
Powers also shot the indie film Bucky F*cking Dent,
Cinematographer Jeffrey Waldron prides himself on having an eye for detail and understanding how to use lighting, framing and camera movement to tell a story. He put those tools to use recently on the Nicole Holofcener-directed Julia Louis-Dreyfus film, You Hurt My Feelings.
The A24 film tells the story of Beth (Louis-Dreyfus),
By Iain Blair
Cinematographer Larkin Seiple racked up a ton of award nominations for his mind-bending visual work on The Daniels’ Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once. His latest project is Beef, the new Netflix comedic thriller about two Los Angeles residents from opposite ends of the economic and social spectrum — Danny (Steven Yeun) is a struggling contractor and Amy (Ali Wong) is a successful lifestyle guru.
Born with a disability so rare that no reliable statistics for it exist, filmmaker Ella Glendining wonders if there is anyone who can share the experience of living in a body like hers. This simple question leads to a journey not only to others who live like her, but to the realization that meeting them changes how she sees herself in the world.
The Sundance documentary Plan C, directed by Tracy Droz Tragos, follows Francine Coeytaux and the team who established Plan C — a grassroots organization dedicated to expanding access to medication abortion.
Droz Tragos follows the group as they look for ways to distribute abortion pills while following the letter of the law.
DP Diego Pérez Romero is a documentary filmmaker and environmentalist from Peru. He has over 10 years of experience working with organizations dedicated to the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and its cultures. Thanks to his work as a videographer, photographer and filmmaker, he has helped to shine a light on the natural and cultural wealth of Peru.
DP Martina Radwan is a German-born, New York City-based director of photography who specializes in documentaries. Her extensive credit list includes the docs Inventing Tomorrow, The Final Year, The Promised Band, Through a Lens Darkly and Saving Face. Her narrative works ranges from the Bahamian feature Rain to the thriller Under Construction to the horror film Train.
By Randi Altman
Based on the best-selling novel by Kristin Hannah, Netflix’s Firefly Lane follows two best friends, Kate and Tully, over the course of three decades. The series is now streaming its second season.
DP Vincent De Paula, CSC — who has extensive feature and television credits — has been on the show since its inception,
By Iain Blair
RRR is an Indian superhero movie and an international hit, thanks to its story, VFX and blend of emotion and action.
Directed and co-written by S.S. Rajamouli and shot by his longtime cinematographer, KK Senthil Kumar, RRR (which stands for Rise,
By Iain Blair
Aussie cinematographer Mandy Walker, ACS, ASC, who collaborated with Baz Luhrmann on his sprawling epic Australia, teamed up with the director once more on Elvis. An epic in its own right, Elvis conjures up the life and times — and rise and fall — of this rock ‘n’ roll icon.
New York City-based Learan Kahanov is a 30-year industry veteran, contributing to a wide range of television and feature films. While an NYU student, he got experience working in the grip and electric departments, leading him to focus on lighting and working as a gaffer. A year after earning his BFA in film,
Apple TV+’s Shantaram, starring Charlie Hunnam, is a 1980s drama that follows a fugitive who escapes prison and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. It’s based on the Gregory David Roberts novel of the same name.
As the lead DP on the series, Stefan Duscio,