The Making Of

We are excited to share this new conversation with the one and only Jay Holben. Jay wears a few hats in our industry, including writer, director and producer. He also serves as the contributing technical editor for American Cinematographer Magazine, is co-author of The Cine Lens Manual, co-chairs The ASC’s Motion Imaging Technology Council Lens Committee, and moderates many of the industry’s leading educational panels on cinematography and filmmaking.In this podcast, Jay shares about growing up in

We are pleased to share this mid-summer conversation with a very talented cinematographer, Mr. Mihai Malaimare Jr. Mihai has worked on an impressive slate of films since the year 2007, where he shot the first of three features for Francis Ford Coppola, Youth Without Youth. Since then, he’s lensed Tetro and Twixt for Coppola, The Master for Paul Thomas Anderson, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Nina, Sleepless, November Criminals, The Hate U Give, Jojo Rabbit, The Harder They Fall, and this year’s

We are pleased to share Episode II of The Making Of, where we talked shop with Oscar-nominated Cinematographer Larry Sher, ASC.  Larry is an amazing DP with a long list of successful films including The Hangover series, Garden State, Kissing Jessica Stein, I Love You Man, Dan in Real Life, Due Date, Paul, The Dictator, War Dogs, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Joker.In our conversation, Larry shares much about his backstory, filmmaking beginnings, and his real-world education about

Forty-five years ago in a galaxy far, far away a little science-fiction film called Star Wars hit cinemas nationwide and in an instant, the industry was changed forever. So, it is on this anniversary that we are excited to launch The Making Of… a fresh newsletter and podcast shining a light on the artists behind the scenes of the most innovative, influential, and iconic films in recent history.In this first issue, we’re pleased to share a conversation with an industry legend, Mr. Bruce Logan, ASC,