Director/cameraman Domenic Mastrippolito has joined Seed Media Arts under the aegis of executive producer Roy Skillicorn. Seed’s new production headquarters have moved to Mastrippolito’s Santa Monica offices and will be helmed by executive producer Tim Ward. After years as a spot director, being nominated for a DGA Award as Best Commercial Director of the Year, Mastrippolito ventured into shooting 2nd unit on features like Davinci Code and Spiderman, and TV shows, including Modern Family. Between longer format assignments, he continued working on spots for Hershey’s, Olay Definity, P&G, Hoover and recently a large package for the NFL promoting the 2017 Super Bowl. Mastrippolito began his career as a cinematographer in Hawaii, shooting sailing and surfing films. He landed his first directing assignments when he was 24 years old and was quickly recognized, on a national scale, shooting campaigns for United, Budweiser, P&G, Clorox, Canon, Taco Bell and DirecTV, among others….Click 3X has added Tim Dingerson as associate creative director and Adam Pearlman as sr. animator. This is Dingerson’s second tour at Click 3X, as he originally held the position of design director for the digital studio. Prior to his return, Dingerson was the creative director/founder of Luckeyou, a boutique design and animation studio based in New York City. Pearlman is also no stranger to Click 3X, as he has been freelancing for the studio since 2010. He has also worked as an animator at FOX Business Network, Trollback & Company, Interspectacular and Blue Room, among others….
Steven Soderbergh Has A Multi-Faceted “Presence” In His Latest Film
Steven Soderbergh isn't just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He's also, in a way, its central character.
"Presence" is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father's name), essentially performs as the presence, a floating point-of-view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to be repeated.
For even the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens Friday in theaters, was a unique challenge. He shot "Presence" with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften his steps.
The 62-year-old filmmaker recently met a reporter in a midtown Manhattan hotel in between finishing post-production on his other upcoming movie ("Black Bag," a thriller Focus Features will release March 14) and beginning production in a few weeks on his next project, a romantic comedy that he says "feels like a George Cukor movie."
Soderbergh, whose films include "Out of Sight," the "Ocean's 11" movies, "Magic Mike" and "Erin Brockovich," tends to do a lot in small windows of time. "Presence" took 11 days to film.
That dexterous proficiency has made the ever-experimenting Soderbergh one of Hollywood's most widely respected evaluators of the movie business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force the movies have ever faced and why he's "the cockroach of this industry."
Q: You use pseudonyms for yourself as a cinematographer and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for "Presence"?
SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and... Read More