Fighting the Skin Trade with Gabe Dowrick
Gabe Dowrick is. Bad. Ass. As careers go, Gabe slings a couple of pistols, with feature credits as an editor and screenwriter. Which when you press for it, places him in esteemed company – think uber auteur Ethan Cohen and shoot ‘em up/slice ‘em up rogue Robert Rodriguez.
Peter Cornwell on ‘The Haunting in Connecticut’
Peter started his career as a sound recordist at the ABC in Sydney, Australia, where he also practiced stop-motion animations in his spare time. After taking a redundancy package from the ABC, he was able to finish his animated short Ward 13 which went on to win 17 awards internationally and was also shortlisted for […]
CASE STUDY: Director Christiaan Blok
AnyCam recently spoke to director Chistiaan Blok about getting his start as a director for hire, working for agencies and working on TVC’s and branded content. We talked through his early work and spoke about what a director does and how he got his start.
Dane Millerd on ‘There’s Something In The Pilliga’
Hands up who’s heard of the Yowie? For most Australians under 35; a bulbous bug-eyed chocolate-koala-thing might spring to mind. But in Aboriginal folklore, the Yowie or ‘Jingra’ is a terrifying, yeti-esque brute of the bush, roaming its vast, harsh abode amidst the seemingly infinite stretches of soil & scrub…
Sofya Gollan’s ‘Gimpsey’
From humble beginnings sing-signing on Australian TV show ‘Play School’ in the early 90’s to helming a plethora of award winning shorts and the successful triple AFI nominated feature Preservation (2003), writer/director Sofya Gollan now serves up ‘Gimpsey’ in 2015
The Producer is one of the most demanding roles in any production and one that more often than not gets little of the spot light. South Australian Film Maker Peta Astbury deserves some time in [...]
Recently, an up and coming band called Beaten Bodies asked me to shoot a Music Video for them. I was keen. I was also looking to do something new. Not necessarily out of this world new, not like [...]
Matt Graham is a Writer Director that has made several award winning short films. He has been making engaging short films since 2007. His subjects have ranged from gangsters and child Abduction, [...]
Some times things don’t always go the way you want, or even close to it. You can look at these difficulties as reasons to stop, to give up. But, I think that it’s actually the norm, [...]
Film Maker Johan Earl talks to us about Forbidden Ground, the new independent feature film by the Writer, Director and leading actor. The WW1 Action-Drama film, which stars Johan as the lead [...]
Toby Morris is a film makers on a mission. His was selected as a finalists of the 2012 Tropfest short film festival for the film “My Constellation” (Embedded bellow) and has achieved [...]
Has the popularity of the 5D and the DSLR revolution also led to an obsession with sensor size? Is bigger really better? And has this obsession with size limited our creative choices? The hugely [...]
I saw this today and was very impressed with it. Zakuto have made a wee film where they talk to several DPs about what they feel about cinematography. The result is some what spell binding.
As the Rolling Stones famously said “You can’t always get what you want” but thankfully with power of movie magic know one has to know. Often when shooting you will find you want a [...]
It’s all too easy to get into a race of escalating specs with camera gear and more often than not it is only half the story. I started this blog to focus on things that I think are [...]