By The Cinematography Podcast
Art, Business, Craft and Philosophy of the Moving Image
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 216: Dave Garbett New Zealand cinematographer David Garbett has shot more versions of the Evil Dead franchise than any other cinematographer. These include the series Ash vs. Evil Dead and the latest movie, Evil Dead Rise. Dave...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 215: Laura Merians Gonçalves We welcome our returning guest, cinematographer Laura Merians Gonçalves. Laura was extremely intrigued to work on the new Prime Video series, Dead Ringers. The show is based on the 1988 David Cronenberg movie, which...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 214: Xavier Dolléans Cinematographer Xavier Dolléans has worked extensively in France on films, commercials, music videos and the award-winning French series, Germinal. The Peacock show Mrs. Davis marks his move into working on more U.S. based productions....
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 213: W. Kamau Bell Comedian and director W. Kamau Bell has been a fan of documentaries as much as a fan of comedy. As a kid, he would sit down with his mom and watch documentaries on...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 212: David Gribble, ACS David “Gribs” Gribble grew up in Brisbane, AU and began studying photography at night school. He became a photo assistant, moved to Sydney, and found a job at a local film studio making...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 211: Mark Harris Mark Harris has enjoyed watching horror movies since the age of about 10 or 12. Growing up in the 1980's with so few Black characters on TV or in movies, he always noticed when...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 210: Filmmaker Mode Michael Zink is president of the UHD Alliance, an industry group founded in 2015. He is also the Vice President of Emerging and Creative Technologies at WarnerMedia. The Alliance was founded to bring together...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 209: Tetris The new Apple TV+ movie Tetris tells the unbelievable but true story of how the video game became a worldwide phenomenon. Entrepreneur Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) discovered Tetris in 1988 and partnered with Soviet inventor...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 208: Rye Lane Rye Lane is a charming, energetic and funny romantic film that follows Dom and Yas, both twentysomethings going through bad breakups. They meet at a friend's art show and roam around South London, helping...
The Cinematography Podcast 2023 Academy Awards Nomination Special Long-time friend and colleague Jenelle Riley of Variety magazine chats with Ben and Illya for our fourth annual Oscar nominations special. With a focus on cinematography, they discuss what they liked, what will...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 207: Fire of Love The documentary Fire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa, takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey into the world of volcanology. The film is centered around footage filmed by French volcanologists Maurice and Katia...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 205: Jesse Feldman Interview with the Vampire on AMC+ is based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name. The new series changes and updates the material so that the main character, Louis, is now Black and...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 205: All That Breathes All That Breathes follows the story of two brothers in New Delhi, India who run a home-based bird sanctuary dedicated to caring for black kites. Black kites are a common bird of prey...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 204: Food and Country The documentary Food and Country, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance film festival, takes a close look at the broken food system in the United States through the lens of the COVID pandemic,...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 203: Fancy Dance and King Coal The dramatic film Fancy Dance follows an indigenous woman named Jax, who hustles to get by on her reservation in Oklahoma. When her sister Tawi disappears, Jax is responsible for taking...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 202: Bad Press and The Persian Version We kick off our Sundance Film Festival 2023 interviews with the documentary Bad Press and the dramatic comedy, The Persian Version. Bad Press follows the battle for a free press on...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 201: Casper Kelly and Alex Allgood Yule Log is a crazy, surreal, comedic horror movie written and directed by Casper Kelly and with cinematography by Alex Allgood, made for Adult Swim and available on HBO Max. Even...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 200: Russell Carpenter, ASC Our guest Russell Carpenter, ASC comes back for a second time on the podcast to talk about Avatar: The Way of Water. When cinematographer Russell Carpenter began working on Avatar: The Way of Water,...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 199: Antoine Fuqua and Robert Richardson Emancipation is based on the true story of a man who escaped slavery and fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. The man, whose real name was Gordon, was...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 198: Linus Sandgren We welcome cinematographer Linus Sandgren, ASC, FSF for his third time on the podcast. On his latest film, Babylon, Linus was happy to work with director Damien Chazelle again. The two had previously collaborated...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 197: Matthew Libatique We welcome cinematographer Matthew Libatique, ASC for his third time on the podcast. For this interview, Matty, Ben and Illya have a more technical discussion about lenses, LUTs and cameras used on Don't Worry...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 196: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom The film Thirteen Lives is about the rescue of the Thai soccer team who were trapped in an underwater cave in 2018 for 18 days. Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, who is Thai, knew that it...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 195: Abraham Martínez On our 250th episode*, we welcome returning guest and longtime friend of the show, cinematographer Abe Martinez, who catches up with Ben and Illya about his work around the world for the past few...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 194: Florian Hoffmeister In TÁR, Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a fictional world famous female conductor and composer whose life takes a dramatic downturn after serious allegations are made against her. Cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister and director Todd...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 193: Autumn Durald Arkapaw Unsurprisingly, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has been a huge hit, and cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw was excited to join the crew. She had worked with Marvel on the Disney+ series Loki and felt...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 192: Ben Davis Cinematographer Ben Davis enjoys working on both big budget Marvel movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange as well as smaller films such as The Banshees of Inisherin, My...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 191: Trevor Kossack As a partner and commercial agent at WPA- Worldwide Production Agency- Trevor Kossack represents directors, cinematographers, production designers, editors and costume designers. Trevor has a passion for those responsible for crafting the images that...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 190: Checco Varese This week we welcome Checco Varese, our friend of the podcast and 4th time guest! The Hulu series Dopesick tells the complex story of the opioid epidemic through multiple points of view over its eight...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 189: Eric Branco The new Showtime series Let the Right One In expands on the ideas introduced in the now-classic 2008 Swedish horror movie and the American remake. A man, Mark Kane (Demián Bichir) and his tween...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 188: Court Crandall The comedy Bromates is about buddies Sid (Josh Brener) and Jonesie (Lil Rel Howry) who are both going through a breakup, so the two move in together. During a night out at a bar...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 187: Charlie Sarroff Cinematographer Charlie Sarroff loves to shoot horror movies, and he knew when he read the script for the horror film, Smile, that it would be fun, gory and dark. This week (10/12/2022) Smile is...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 186: Mike Prickett The six part HBO documentary 100 Foot Wave is the story of big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, as he learns about the biggest waves in the world in Nazaré, Portugal. Then, with help from...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 185: Alicia Robbins Cinematographer Alicia Robbins' work on the Netflix show, Keep Breathing, was quite challenging as they had location scouts at seven different remote forests in Vancouver, Canada near Whistler. The crew had to off-road it...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 184: Kays Al-Atrakchi At long last, we welcome longtime friend and multi-hyphenate filmmaker, Kays Al-Atrakchi to the Cinepod! Kays feels there are film composers who love music and composers who simply love movies. He himself absolutely loves all...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 183: Brendan Uegama Cinematographer Brendan Uegama, CSC enjoys shooting many different genres, from romantic comedies such as Moonshot, to horror movies such as Child's Play (2019). He enjoys changing his approach to each project depending on the...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 182: Adamma Ebo, Adanne Ebo, Alan Gwizdowski Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul is a satirical dark comedy and mockumentary about Trinitie Childs, (Regina Hall) the “First Lady” of a Southern Baptist mega church and Lee-Curtis Childs,...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 181: Steve Pink and Bella Gonzales The Wheel is about a young couple whose marriage is in crisis. They decide to retreat to a house in the woods to try to work out their differences, where they...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 180: Cybel Martin Cinematographer Cybel Martin believes that great cinematography comes from a place of trust between the director, DP and crew. Great art can be created when someone says: this is my vision and I trust...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 179: Alli Haapasalo and Jarmo Kiuru Girl Picture is a Finnish film about the friendship between three young women as they experience the emotional ups and downs of life as they transition from teenagers to women. Director...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 178: Larkin Seiple When cinematographer Larkin Seiple first saw the script for Everything Everywhere All At Once he thought: This is very long and how in the world are we going to shoot this? But having worked...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 177: Jules O'Loughlin Australian cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin's path to movie making was a long journey. After graduating from the prestigious AFTRS- Australian Film Television and Radio School- he worked steadily and shot a wide range of films...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 176: Bianca Cline and Eric Adkins Marcel The Shell With Shoes On began in 2010 as a series of stop-motion shorts written and directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp and actor Jenny Slate, who also does the voice of...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 175: Paula Huidobro Our returning guest is Paula Huidobro, who has been very busy the past few years shooting the 2022 Best Picture winning film CODA, the Hulu series Pam & Tommy, and the AppleTV+ series Physical,...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 174: Chris Teague Cinematographer Chris Teague on the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building Cinematographer Chris Teague has shot many acclaimed television series and films such as Obvious Child, GLOW, Russian Doll and Mrs. America. His latest...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 173: Jim Archer, David Earl, Chris Hayward Brian and Charles is about an awkward and lonely inventor, Brian, who lives in rural Wales. He rarely makes contraptions that are useful or work right, but one day, he...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 172: Chloe Okuno and Benjamin Kirk Watcher is a psychological thriller about a young actress, Julia, who has just moved to Romania from the U.S. with her boyfriend. A serial killer is on the loose in the...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 171: Carey Williams and Mike Dallatorre Emergency is a comedy about three men of color- college roommates Kunle, Sean, and Carlos, who are about to go out for an epic night of spring break partying when they...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 170: Michael FitzMaurice Cinematographer Michael FitzMaurice is known for his aerial and second unit cinematography on huge films such as The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and now Top Gun Maverick. In the...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 169: James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte are Emmy-nominated documentary directors and producers for the HBO documentary series, McMillion$. Brian and James return to Cinepod to talk about their latest documentary,...
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 168: Eric Koretz Cinematographer Eric Koretz and our host Illya Friedman have known each other a long time, going back to when Eric blogged about the latest camera gear. Since then, Eric has become a very successful...