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The Making OfVideo“Primetime” Production Sound Mixer, Composer, & Post Sound Mixer on Crafting the Sonic Landscape In this episode of The Making Of , we welcome Chris Welcker, CAS (Production Sound Mixer), Ari Balouzian (Composer), and Paul Hsu (Re-Recording Mixer) to discuss the sound of Primetime .

The Making OfVideo“The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” Director, DP, Production Designer & Costume Designer on Crafting the Film This week on The Making Of , we’re taking a behind-the-scenes look at The Only Living Pickpocket in New York , a new crime thriller starring John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Jamie…

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The Making OfVideo“Primetime” Editor Daniel Garber ACE on Cutting the A24 Feature Film In this episode, we welcome Daniel Garber ACE , editor of the new A24 film Primetime , directed by Lance Oppenheim and starring Robert Pattinson.

The Making OfVideoDirector Kate Dolan on Crafting “SOULM8TE,” Part of the M3GAN Universe, Produced by James Wan In this episode, we talk with director Kate Dolan about SOULM8TE , the latest addition to the M3GAN universe, produced by James Wan.

The Making OfVideoIndustry News, Events, Vimeo Film Grant, & More Hey everyone! This week, we’re sharing a roundup of what’s happening across the industry—from upcoming events and film festivals to the Vimeo Short Film Grant, and a few other things worth having on…

The Making OfVideo“Futurama” Showrunner David X. Cohen on the New Season, Collaborating with Matt Groening, & More In this episode, we welcome four-time Emmy Award winner David X. Cohen , co-creator, executive producer and head writer of Futurama .

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The Making OfVideo“Mayday” Directors John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein on Making the Apple TV Film In this episode of The Making Of , we’re joined by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein , the writer-director team behind Vacation , Game Night , and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves , to…

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The Making OfVideoCarlson Young on Directing “The Last Sunrise” for Amazon MGM Studios In this episode, we sit down with filmmaker Carlson Young to discuss her latest feature, The Last Sunrise , and her evolution from actor to director.

The Making OfVideoPBS KIDS’ Sara DeWitt on Back-to-School Programming, Navigating Funding Challenges & More In this episode, we welcome Sara DeWitt, SVP & GM of PBS KIDS and Education , for a wide-ranging conversation about her background and career, her leadership role at PBS KIDS, and the organization’s…

The Making OfVideo“LION” Cinematographer Sophie Darlington ASC on Crafting the Disney+ and National Geographic Documentary In this episode, we welcome Sophie Darlington ASC , an award-winning cinematographer whose remarkable career has taken her around the world capturing wildlife and the natural world.

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The Making OfVideoHow 3 Indie Filmmakers Made an $8,000 Horror Feature—and Got Distribution In this episode, we welcome co-directors Christian Hurley and Ben Oliphint , and producer Matt Wassong —the filmmakers behind the horror feature A Most Atrocious Thing , made for just $8,000 and…

The Making OfVideo“Widow’s Bay” Cinematographer, Editor & Sound Mixer on Crafting the Hit Apple TV Series In this episode, we welcome the creative team behind the 19-time Emmy-nominated Apple TV series Widow’s Bay —cinematographer Christian Sprenger ASC , editor Isaac Hagy ACE , and production sound…

The Making OfVideo"Other Mommy" Cinematographer Lowell A. Meyer on Making the Horror Film, Crafting "Tuner," & More In this episode, we welcome Lowell A. Meyer , cinematographer of Other Mommy , Tuner , Knock at the Cabin , Thunder Road , and the Apple TV+ series Servant .

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo