Women have long been in the spotlight at DreamWorks Animation, well known for promoting female talent within their ranks to leadership roles. Here, six female directors share their memories of working at the studio during its first quarter century: Lorna Cook, Vicky Jenson, Elaine Bogan, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Brenda Chapman, and Jill Culton.
Shot entirely with the Apple iPhone 5S, Sean Baker’s micro-budget feature ‘Tangerine’ is a Christmas Eve odyssey through various Los Angeles subcultures.
The Academy’s annual voting event showcases the year’s top visual effects-driven films.
‘Big Hero 6’ Producer Roy Conli discusses story, production challenges and the boy and his robot at the heart of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ latest feature.
Co-directors of Disney’s most technologically advanced film to date discuss production challenges, creating a robot that learns, and Hyperion, the studio’s new global-illumination rendering system.
Award-winning cinematographer Thierry Arbogast selects the Sony CineAlta F65 digital camera to capture Super 35 widescreen footage for sci-fi feature “Lucy.”
Tomas Leach’s documentary “In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons In Life With Saul Leiter” is a tender and intimate portrait of the photographer and painter considered to be a pioneer of the New York School era of photography of the 1940s and 50s.
Filmed on location off the rugged and desolate coast of Maine, “Black Rock” was conceived and directed by “mumblecore” director Katie Aselton. Shot by cinematographer Hillary Spera, the film interplays beautiful imagery with a host of horrors as the three women become the targets of a hunt and are forced into a deadly fight for survival.
In a deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial Stephen King adaptation, director Rodney Ascher’s conspiracy documentary “Room 237” evokes the Kuleshov Effect, exploring five of the most widely-addressed theories via interviews with cultists and scholars alike juxtaposed with footage from “The Shining” and other Kubrick classics, along with maps, diagrams and floorplans.
A punk pastiche, “Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer” incorporates footage from Russian news agencies along with material captured with mobile phones and handheld cameras as well as stabilized DSLR rigs.