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Exposure Newsletter August 2011
August has been a busy month with many new articles added, please see below for a synopsis, simply click on the links to read the full article. Don't forget the site has a huge archive of older features and articles, going back to 2008. Each one can be searched for by title, person or film stock. Keep checking back to www.fujifilmexposure.com - new content is added regularly. |
13 ½
There is a real art form to telling a bold and beautiful story in the shortest possible duration. Film-making team, writer-director Haris Vafeiadis and DoP Eduard Grau have a talent that won them the Fujifilm Shorts 2011 Best Film award for their 21-minute-long coming-of-age drama 13 ½. "I wasn't expecting it at all," says Vafeiadis, "On the contrary, when I watched the festival trailer, I thought, wow, these films look very impressive! - we're never gonna win!" |
THE PIT
"It's such a lovely achievement because somebody else thinks that the work you put in is actually really good, and the win comes with a fantastic package that we can hopefully use to its best potential," says DoP Urszula Pontikos on winning 2011 Fujifilm Shorts Best Cinematography prize for the short, The Pit, written and directed by Rupert Raby. Of her prize package that includes stock, processing, lighting and studio hire plus Future Shorts distribution, Pontikos is thrilled to be getting a print and showing The Pit at upcoming festivals. But the most important thing to her is the industry support |
AN ENGLISH PERSPECTIVE
Legendary musician Eric Clapton calls him his 'favourite photographer [who] does great work'. Now Jack English has another lifelong fan in actor-director Gary Oldman who describes him as 'a true artist with a camera'. This British artist has worked his ever-evolving creativity worldwide in a number of areas, including fashion, music and film photography. |
FALLING WITH STYLE
They say you should never fund a film with your own money. But it's also true that some of the biggest indie filmmakers working today had to pay their own way because studios and corporations often lack the vision to see how a small, richly textured curio can breakout to a wider audience. It's refreshing to head to the website for Kanchi Wichmann's gay relationship drama Break My Fall, click through to the 'FAQs' and find a list of defiant declarations resonating with indie filmmaking spirit. A goad to all other wannabe filmmakers who haven't made their first feature yet. |
GUN RUNNING
"It would have been daunting if I'd had time to think about it!" laughs the young Director of Photography. "We were so busy trying to get everything together - locations, crew, equipment, and I was also shooting a short at the weekends… but I'll be very nervous once it's ready for people to see it." Latvia is the micro-budget tale of a group of young wannabe gangsters in London. After shooting a large number of shorts following graduation, Whyte jumped at the chance to do something "long form" when she received Director, Barry Derbyshire's script. |
HARSH DOSE OF REALISM
"The material did affect me," nods cinematographer Tim Fleming, ISC, about his time on fellow Irish filmmaker Juanita Wilson's As If I'm Not There, a hard-hitting account of a young teacher's debasement by Serbian forces during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. "It was present every day for the best part of two years of my life. I was meeting people throughout who had been directly affected and involved in this conflict. Hearing their stories and experiences was harrowing but did enrich my understanding of the horror and the darkness of being human." |
no.w.here IS HERE
no.w.here, the UK's premiere artist run lab is to present a practical, hands on workshop for emerging artists filmmakers, cinematographers, and experienced practitioners interested in exploring the range of image capture formats currently available including practical shooting exercises both standard and super 16mm. |
Welcome to the second issue of 
Interview with Director Haris Vafeiadis and DoP Eduard Grau, winners of Fujifilm Shorts Best Film.
Interview with DoP Urszula Pontikos, Fujifilm Shorts Best Cinematography winner.
Interview with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy film stills photographer Jack English.
A feature on Kanchi Wichmann's drama Break My Fall
A focus on Vanessa Whyte who, only two years after coming out of the National Film and Television School, found herself photographing her first full-length feature film.
Interview with cinematographer Tim Fleming.
News of an exciting workshop for filmmakers.Header Image: JANE EYRE - Shot by DoP Adriano Goldman BSC was originated on 35mm Fujifilm ETERNA 400T 8583.
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