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INTERVIEW: In The Editor’s Room

Shannon Baker Davis discusses her journey as a film editor Writing, directing and producing are the media darlings of the filmmaking industry. But only through the process of editing is the real story crafted. With the upcoming release of the film, The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, newly…

Melanin Cinematography | Lighting

Introduction It propels the food chain, giving us life; it creates atmosphere, shaping our mood and affecting how we feel. We harness it to create experiences that allow us to curate time and space. We also harness it to influence how we curate character to an audience. That is the…

INTERVIEW: The Craft of Cinematography

Tommy Maddox-Upshaw is a cinematographer who is on the brink of becoming a key figure in the discussion about African people in film. He had to travel across the world to Africa to shoot Kalushi (2016) for him to be anointed as a world-class cinematographer back home in the United…

Approaches to Craft: You Are Only As Good As Your Research (so they say….)
Finally, we should look at how a black idiom and the sensibilities it has come to imply are appropriated for the associative value they lend to modernism – hip, sophisticated, ultra-urbane. Toni Morrison – ‘Playing In The Dark’ The oracle spoke. I wanted to play with the words above,... Read more
Approaches to Craft: Perspectives on Music, Sound and the Visual
My excitement here is twofold: taking part in a crucial eco system of information, and the opportunity to ruminate with my passion. Let me be transparent: I am a musician, and ethnomusicologist filmmaker. This combination means that I work across the spectrum of sound and music. The methods I... Read more