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Monday, Mar. 27, 2017
Spring 2017 Director's Profile: Marc Forster
Marc Forster is no stranger to the Academy Awards, having directed Halle Berry’s Best Leading Actress Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball (2001). Fast forward to last month and Forster made his imprint on the Oscar telecast in an entirely different way, directing "Lost & Found," a...
Monday, Mar. 27, 2017
Spring 2017 Director's Profile: Henrik Hansen
Quipping that he could shoot cars until he’s "ready for the coffin," director Henrik Hansen of RSA Films is known for his far reaching visual sensibilities, marked by innovative use of light to capture riveting action—often further enhanced by compelling characters who put viewers into the throes...
Monday, Mar. 27, 2017
Spring 2017 Director's Profile: Derek Cianfrance
What started out as a livelihood has become a lively art for Derek Cianfrance as underscored by his recent DGA Award win for Outstanding Achievement in Commercials. Cianfrance, who’s with RadicalMedia, earned the Directors Guild honor on the strength of four entries: Nike Golf’s "Chase"; Powerade’s...
Monday, Mar. 27, 2017
Spring 2017 Director's Profile: Niki Caro
From the horrifically inhumane can sometimes spring the best that humanity has to offer. Such decency and heroism are captured in director Niki Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife which tells the real-life story of the former director of the Warsaw Zoo, Dr. Jan Zabinski (portrayed by Johan Heldenbergh),...
Monday, Mar. 27, 2017
Welcome to the Special Spring 2017 Directors Series SHOOT>e.dition
Welcome to the Special Spring 2017 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes: James Mangold who made a superhero film, Logan, that has broken all the conventions of that genre; Niki Caro who directed the soon-to-be-released The Zookeeper’s Wife based on the best-selling book...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Welcome to the Special Fall 2016 Directors Series SHOOT>e.dition
Welcome to the Special Fall 2016 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes two women who are breaking new ground: Alma Har’el whose Free The Bid initiative is gaining momentum as it seeks to help open up new commercialmaking/branded content opportunities for women filmmakers...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Luke Scott
With last month’s release of sci-fi thriller Morgan (Twentieth Century Fox), Luke Scott formally made his feature directorial debut. Yet Scott in recent years has already made an impact in the theatrical motion picture marketplace, having helmed, for example, the “Peter Weyland 2023 TED Talk,” a...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Jeff Nichols
With some embarrassment, director/writer Jeff Nichols admits that he wasn’t at all familiar with the story of Mildred and Richard Loving whose interracial marriage got them jailed and exiled from Virginia in 1958. The couple persevered, became parents and eventually lived in hiding in Virginia,...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: Ted Melfi
Making a remarkable feature directorial debut at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival with the critically acclaimed tug-at-the-heartstrings comedy St. Vincent, Ted Melfi found himself sought after for other long-form opportunities. He even recalled being one of two directors in the running...
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Fall 2016 Director's Profile: David Mackenzie
When he read Taylor Sheridan’s script for Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie was floored. “It’s not a very interesting backstory about how I got involved. To put it simply, the script was amazing. I didn’t want to change a word. What Taylor wrote was straight from the heart and to my...

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