By Iain Blair
Editor Kevin Tent, ACE, has had a long and fruitful collaboration with director Alexander Payne. Their first film together was 1995’s Citizen Ruth, and he’s edited all of Payne’s films since, including the Oscar-nominated Sideways. Tent earned his first Academy Award nod for his work on The Descendants.
Supervising sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer Johnnie Burn has been busy working on not one but two of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, The Zone of Interest and Poor Things. One is about the horrors of the Holocaust, and the other is a whimsical tale of rebirth and the love of life.
By Iain Blair
Martin Scorsese and DP Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, first teamed up on The Wolf of Wall Street and followed that with Silence and The Irishman. Now they’ve collaborated on Killers of the Flower Moon, an epic Western and crime drama that tells the tragic true story of the infamous Osage murders of the 1920s.
For the second consecutive year, CrowdStrike is airing a spot during the Super Bowl. This year’s ad features CrowdStrike’s AI-powered cybersecurity heroine Charlotte as she tackles modern cyber adversaries and stops breaches. The Future brings a stylized spin to a classic Western tale to show how CrowdStrike is securing the future of the digital frontier.
By Randi Altman
Paramount+’s The Serial Killer’s Wife, four-episode series, follows Beth, whose husband is arrested on suspicion of murder. Beth (Annabel Scholey) is certain it’s all a huge mistake — Tom (Jack Farthing) is the village doctor and a beloved member of the community. But as Beth and her husband’s best friend start looking into the accusations,
By Mike McCarthy
It has been a few years since I’ve tested and reviewed a laptop. Technology has progressed a lot since then, and systems are dramatically more powerful than they were just four years ago — and GPUs have improved more than CPUs by most measures.
I recently had the opportunity to test out the Dell Precision 5480.
David Scott is a visual effects supervisor at London-based BlueBolt, an independent studio that provides VFX for television and film.
“It’s run by a great bunch of industry pros, a lot of whom I’d worked with before in previous companies, like MPC,” explains Scott. “What is nice about being in a smaller company is the scope of work you get to do and the types of films and projects you work on.
By Brady Betzel
Nvidia has been on fire over the past year, not just with standard generational upgrades to the RTX line of GPUs, but by steadily advancing AI and multimedia processing, both of which are vitally important to multimedia creators. For everyone from video editors to computer scientists, Nvidia is handing over powerful GPU-based machine learning and language learning model processing to the masses for under $1,000.
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 Sugarcane follows the investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school, which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. It was directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and focuses on the intergenerational legacy of trauma from the residential school system — including forced family separation,
By Iain Blair
Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Lead Actor, American Fiction is writer Cord Jefferson’s impressive directorial debut. It’s a dramedy satire that stars Jeffrey Wright as Monk, an erudite and frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from stereotypical “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.
By Jonathan Moser
I have a confession, one that could get me thrown out of the editor’s union (if I still belonged to it). I’m embarrassed to say it… totally ashamed… but here goes: I love color-coded and mapped keyboards! There, I said it, and I feel better for it.
I’ve been editing a very long time,
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.
Now streaming on Disney+ is Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which is based on the novels by Rick Riordan. The story follows 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who, upon learning he is a demigod, has to lead a quest across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods.
Cinematographer Pierre Gill,
Maggie Norsworthy is an audio post producer at New York City’s Mr. Bronx, an artist-owned and operated audio post studio that creates soundscapes for ad campaigns, feature films, TV series, experiential installations and theme park rides. Mr. Bronx offers an array of services, including mix, sound design, Foley, ADR, VO record and VO casting.
By Iain Blair
All of Us Strangers is the latest film from British filmmaker Andrew Haigh. Part time-traveling, supernatural ghost story and part meditation on loneliness, loss and love, the film recently swept the British Indie Film Awards with seven wins, including Best Director and Best Screenplay for Haigh;