Day: 5 February 2025
DP Forrest uses book pre-sale to help restore sight for 58 people
Director of Photography Trevor Forrest has launched a powerful initiative to address cataract blindness by pre-selling his upcoming book The Things Between Us in collaboration with CureBlindness.org
Ben Foredsman / Love Lies Bleeding
What gear did you use and why? Rose and i originally planned to shoot on film and exhausted a good reason to, but ended up having to shoot on digital. Im very familiar with Arri cameras and the Alexa 35 hadn’t been released by that point so the obvious choice was the Alexa mini. It’s … Read more
DP Brandon Somerhalder on Come See Me in the Good Light
How did you get involved in the project? I did a verite documentary a few years ago that the director Ryan White saw at Tribeca and started working with him and his producer Jessica Hargrave on a different project – soon after, the idea for this Andrea Gibson documentary came to them. I think I … Read more
Colourist Claudio Del Bravo on grading Queer
 Queer is the highly anticipated 2024 period film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 short novel by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1950s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expatriate (Daniel Craig) who becomes infatuated with a younger man (Drew Starkey).  The movie premiered … Read more
Women Behind the Camera expands vision with fresh direction
After nearly six years since its inception by founders Agnieszka Szeliga and Lucy Bristow, Women Behind The Camera (WBTC) continues to thrive. As a reflection of this success, Núria Pérez, Rozemarijn Stokkel, and Tamia Diaz have been appointed as new directors to continue growing the company’s long-term vision. Over the years WBTC has launched impactful … Read more
Lol Crawley BSC honoured with 2025 Robby Müller award
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has revealed the recipient of the 2025 Robby Müller Award, which acknowledges the artistry of an exceptional image maker, given in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, the wife of the late Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller. Lol Crawley (The Brutalist, The Childhood of a Leader, … Read more
Young BAFTA launches 2025 Young Presenters’ Competition
BAFTA is launching its 2025 Young Presenters Competition with children’s mental health charity Place2Be to find the next BAFTA Young Presenters. The competition is part of Children’s Mental Health Week, whose theme is ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, which runs from 3-9 February 2025. Every year BAFTA runs a competition to find aspiring young presenters to … Read more
HippFest announces 2025 programme
Scotland’s silent film festival celebrates its crystal anniversary this year, as HippFest announces its milestone 15th edition to take place Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 March 2025. Formally known as the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival and named for the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness, HippFest’s 2025 programme will celebrate over 100 years of filmmaking from cinematographers … Read more