tick tick BOOM w/ Cinematographer Alice Brooks A.S.C

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Alice Brooks, ASC is a cinematographer who has photographed award-winning feature films, television shows and commercials. Her next feature project is director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the hit musical WICKED.

 Brooks most recently photographed tick tick…BOOM! for Netflix and Imagine Entertainment, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and produced by Ron Howard. tick tick...BOOM! premieres at AFI Fest on and then goes theatrical, followed by a Netflix run.

Her other recent work includes the 2021 summer release of Miranda’s IN THE HEIGHTS for Warner Bros. directed by Chu. The film’s cinematography received widespread critical acclaim. Brooks also lensed HOME BEFORE DARK (pilot and season one) for Apple TV+, Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, produced by Dana Fox, Dara Resnik and Joy Gorman. 

Brooks’ feature film credits include: QUEEN BEES from director Michael Lembeck, starring Ellen Burstyn and James Caan; and the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION from directors Farah Khalid and Lisa Cortes.

She is known for her dramatic lighting and powerful camera movement, as demonstrated in Paramount’s THE LXD (directed by Chu) and TAINTED LOVE (directed by Avi Youabian). The trade publication Ad Age described THE LXD as one of the most beautifully filmed, elaborately staged web series in the history of the medium.

Brooks is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600. She became a member of the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers in Oct. 2021. 

Newton Thomas Sigel - Da 5 Bloods

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Newton Thomas (Tom) Sigel, ASC recently finished photographing Da 5 Bloods for director Spike Lee, with whom he has a long television commercial working relationship. The Vietnam war epic will release June 12 on Netflix. Sigel also shot the upcoming film Cherry. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Tom Holland, the crime drama will be released in 2020. His previous collaboration with Netflix, the Sam Hargrave action-drama Extraction starring Chris Hemsworth, debuted on April 24, 2020 and quickly became the platform’s most-watched feature debut to date, boasting 90 million household streams in the first month.

Video segment of our podcast: 5 Questions With Newton Thomas Sigel

Prior to designing the look for Extraction, Sigel photographed Bohemian Rhapsody, the exquisite portrait of Freddie Mercury and rock band Queen, highlighting their extraordinary comeback appearance at 1985's historic Live Aid concert. He earned a Best Cinematography BAFTA nomination for his work on the film. Bohemian Rhapsody also earned the 2019 Golden Globe for Drama Motion Picture, along with Rami Malek nabbing a multitude of accolades -- including an Oscar -- for his portrayal of Mercury. Sigel’s seminal use of exotic film stocks and innovative negative processing methods on Three Kings laid a foundation for new avenues of cinematography. In 2010, he photographed Nicolas Winding Refn’s Hollywood debut, Drive, which won the Best Director Award at Cannes and is universally praised for its dazzling look

Craig Wrobleski, CSC - Tales From The Loop

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In our above podcast episode Josh speaks with Craig Wrobleski, who is a well known Canadian Cinematographer who has worked in all aspects ofthe field for over 30 years. Recently Craig has become well known for his TV work on shows like X-Files, The Umbrella Academy, Fargo, Legion, Tales From The Loop and more. In this interview we do a deep dive into his work on Tales From The Loop, life during Covid, cinematic philosophy and more!

Below in our video portion with Craig we do a deep dive into his work on Tales From The Loop: Stasis and Craig shows us his location scouting, production diagrams, and walks us through a full scene (thanks Amazon), the Tales From The Loop color palette, and more!

Paul Leonard-Morgan

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Paul Leonard-Morgan’s unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him in high demand as a film composer, a producer and arranger for bands, and has led him to win a BAFTA award, and receive Emmy & Ivor Novello nominations.

Prior to working in film, Leonard-Morgan produced and arranged for acts including Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Mogwai, and No Doubt. However, it was his groundbreaking score for Relativity’s Limitless, a paranoia-fueled action thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, that solidified him as a major player in the film music industry and was later nominated for the prestigious World Soundtrack “Discovery of the Year” Award in Ghent. His first Emmy nomination came in 2016 for the CBS TV spinoff of Limitless, helmed by Marc Webb (Spiderman, 500 Days of Summer). Dredd, which topped the U.K. box office in its first week of its 2012 release, is widely recognized as launching a new generation of hybrid scores, causing Variety to note the impact of “the throbbing sounds of Paul Leonard-Morgan’s bass heavy score”.

In 2015, he completed a commission from the National Theater to score new adaptations of James I (which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, before taking residence for a sold-out run at the Olivier Theater in London) and James II (composed alongside the music of Scottish electro duo Boards of Canada). In 2016, Leonard-Morgan began working with Academy-Award winning director Errol Morris on a string of projects including the documentary feature The B-Side, the award-winning Netflix series Wormwood, and the newly-completed motion picture on Steve Bannon, American Dharma.

Paul’s latest project is Amazon’s sci-fi series Tales from the Loop (co-scored with Philip Glass), which now available for streaming. He is also one of three composers who are scoring the highly anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077—an open-world action-adventure story developed by CD Projekt Red, which is slated to be released in September 2020. Paul is currently working on his first ever classical commission, a celtic concerto for Inter-Celtic Festival in Lorient, which is slated to take place in August 2020. Paul’s work in animation includes three short Minions films, released alongside Universal Studio’s all-time highest grossing film Despicable Me 2, and Fox/Evergreen’s $80 million feature animation Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. Leonard-Morgan’s first video game soundtrack (EA Games’ flagship Battlefield Hardline) was released in 2015, and granted him the opportunity to score Warhammer: Dawn of War 3, released in April 2017. He currently lives in Los Angeles, with studios in LA and Scotland.

The Costume Design of Unorthodox w/ Justine Seymour

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In this episode of Rack Focus we're talking with Justine Seymour, who is the extremely talented Costume Designer of Netflix's hit show Unorthodox. She has also recently worked on Netflix's Messiah and Apple's upcoming show The Mosquito Coast, and has a plethora of additional credits over a long career.

Unorthodox was already a huge success, but now it's also been nominated for 8 Emmys, including Costume Design. You can listen to the full podcast above and you can watch our video segment where Justine walks us through her Costume Design portfolio for Netflix.
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To learn more about Justine Seymour and her awesome work, you can visit here website here. You can also find her full Costume Design Portfolio for Unorthodox as well as The Sessions, Backtrack and more!