SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, October 26, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s October 23 print issue (including extended versions of some stories).
The lineup of Director Profiles includes: Ridley Scott, who discusses The Martian; Lenny Abrahamson whose Room won the coveted Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, often a harbinger of things to come at Oscar time; Black Mass director Scott Cooper who’s embarking on a new career chapter in commercialmaking and branded content; Todd Haynes whose feature Carol received special recognition at the Cannes Film Festival; Cary Fukunaga whose feature Beasts of No Nation debuted simultaneously in movie theaters and on Netflix; Lauren Greenfield who reflects on Always’ “#LikeAGirl,” which has earned assorted plaudits, most recently the primetime commercial Emmy Award; and Brendan Gibbons who broke new ground with his virtual reality comedy short, Red Velvet.
Meanwhile our lineup of promising, up-and-coming directorial talent includes: a duo whose first feature premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, led to a second feature and a commercial production house affiliation; a Cannes Lion-winning director in India who is making his first foray into the American ad market; a sibling duo who recently signed with a high-profile production company for commercials, bringing with them a track record in the documentary discipline spanning both a feature and a series of docu shorts for ESPN; an accomplished VFX supervisor who has successfully settled into the director’s chair; and a husband-and-wife team who just landed their first formal representation in the U.S., a market in which they’ve experienced success on their own with client-direct work for the likes of Nike, among others.
And then in our Cinematographers & Cameras Series, we meet three DPs—one who lensed The 33, a narrative feature chronicling the real-world survival and rescue of 33 miners trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine in Chile; another who’s been prolific with her recent shooting of the features Freeheld, Creed and The Visit; and a third whose gaining acclaim for his work on the feature Suffragette.
Plus we have a sponsored Profile in which Tröll Pictures’ Peter Steinzeig discusses directors The Snorri Brothers and Natalie Johns.
