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- Caleb Deschanel, ASC: learning stop motion on Laika’s epic Wildwood · Episode 381Wildwood was Caleb Deschanel, ASC’s first stop-motion film. He tested puppets in the forest, kept lights far back for realism, and learned to trust his team. Podcast highlights…
- Capturing Bigfoot shatters a legend and tells a family storyCapturing Bigfoot director Marq Evans and DP Jason Roark blow up the story of the infamous Bigfoot film with new footage and interviews. Podcast highlights include: -How a…
- Slow Horses DP Eben Bolter: creating a darker, grittier season 6 · Episode 380Slow Horses DP Eben Bolter on shooting season six using imperfect light, a location lit with green LED tape, choosing gray screen over green, and a dark, wet London look…
- Stuart Dryburgh, ASC: candlelight and naturalism in East of Eden · Episode 379Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh explains how natural light, practical sources and an invisible camera shaped Netflix’s East of Eden, shot in New Zealand with director Garth…
- DP Matheus Bastos on making budget indie films Gazer and Anima · Episode 378Cinematographer Matheus Bastos on shooting Gazer and Anima on 16mm with little money, how handheld and zooms track character, and why focusing on the work beat chasing an agent…
- Inside the IMAX Camera Department with Scott "Smitty" Smith · Episode 377Scott "Smitty" Smith, the IMAX camera technician behind Oppenheimer, Sinners and The Odyssey, on large format film, servicing cameras and why film costs less than you'd think…
- DP Doug Emmett on shooting the crime drama Furious · Episode 376Furious DP Doug Emmett breaks down how the production team aligned on tone, lighting a penthouse with floor-to-ceiling windows, and creating a red-lit party scene. Podcast…
- Never After Dark: filming a ghost story in Japan using camera magic · Episode 375Director Dave Boyle and DP Patrick Ouziel on making the ghost story Never After Dark in Japan: a 28-day shoot, a backlit zoetrope mirror, and in-camera magic. Podcast…
- Wesley Wang on building a studio for the internet generation · Episode 374Director Wesley Wang on building Wesley Wang Media, an indie studio incubator for online creators, launching a $100K open contest, and staying a filmmaker himself. Podcast…
- Special Episode: Remembering Rodney Charters, ASC, CSC, NZSC · Episode 373Remembering cinematographer Rodney Charters, ASC, dp of 24, Sleepwalkers, and much more in this classic Cinepod conversation on craft, career, and lighting.
- DP Brett Pawlak’s vision for Spider-Man: Brand New Day · 1 t. 11 min.DP Brett Pawlak on grounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day in natural light, practical suit design, and 17 years collaborating with Destin Cretton. Podcast highlights include: -How…
- Building a nearly silent crime drama in Motor City · 1 t. 11 min.Cinematographer John Matysiak on shooting Motor City's nearly dialogue-free story, real in-camera stunts, and building its 1970s Detroit look from film tests. Podcast highlights…
- Bringing indie instincts to Voicemails for Isabelle · 1 t. 11 min.DP Julia Swain on faking the Golden Gate Bridge, rigging a real tour bus, and bringing indie instincts to Netflix's Voicemails for Isabelle Podcast highlights include: -How…
- Michael Bauman on building horror for Monster: The Ed Gein Story · 1 t. 11 min.DP Michael Bauman, ASC on shooting Monster: The Ed Gein Story, building a visual language with period lenses, and lighting with just reflectors and flashlights. Podcast…
- Shooting mud, fog and firelight in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms · 1 t. 11 min.DOP Gustav Danielsson, FSF on shooting HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with naturalistic firelight, practical battlefield fog, and in-camera POV shots Podcast highlights…
- Matt Ball on shooting in remote regions for Tucci in Italy · 1 t. 11 min.DP Matt Ball on shooting Tucci in Italy Season 2, the challenges of journeying to remote regions over tourist spots, and capturing emotional moments on camera. Podcast…
- Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC reimagines a noir classic in Cape Fear · 1 t. 11 min.DP Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC breaks down the watery, noir lighting, anamorphic lenses, and practical tricks behind Apple TV's Cape Fear. Podcast highlights include: -How Eben built…
- Lyle Vincent on lighting the darkness of The Beast in Me · 1 t. 11 min.Cinematographer Lyle Vincent on shooting the Netflix series The Beast in Me with Panavision lenses and hard lighting that allow deep shadows to fall into black. Vincent's work is…
- Christian Sprenger on building the horror-comedy Widow’s Bay · 1 t. 11 min.Christian Sprenger, ASC on balancing horror and comedy in Widow's Bay with lighting, practical effects, and years of trust built with producer Hiro Murai. Podcast highlights…
- Peter Konczal, ASC on Black Rabbit’s raw, low-contrast look · 1 t. 11 min.Peter Konczal, ASC on Black Rabbit's deliberately low-tech-analog toolkit, customized blue bounce light, and the gradual unraveling of its visual style episode by episode…
- Suburban street photography and voyeurism in DTF St. Louis · 1 t. 11 min.DP James Whitaker, ASC breaks down the look of HBO's DTF St. Louis: street photographs, a brutalist style police station, and inobtrusively lighting intimacy. Podcast highlights…
- Smoke, spotlights, Silicon Valley secrets in The Audacity · 1 t. 11 min.The Audacity DP Richard Rutkowski, ASC made Vancouver look like Palo Alto, used lens filters instead of special effects to create wildfires, and dramatized the themes of the show…
- Bonus Episode: Peter Deming, ASC · 1 t. 11 min.Peter Deming, ASC on shooting Evil Dead 2 with director Sam Raimi and working with director David Lynch on Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks. Find Peter Deming…
- Shooting in the dark: the making of Spider Noir · 1 t. 11 min.Cinematographers Darren Tiernan, ISC and Peter Deming, ASC are the DPs of Spider Noir, the new MGM Plus and Amazon Prime series starring Nicolas Cage as the hard-boiled 1930s New…
- James Laxton, ASC Frames Class and Generation Gaps in Beef 2 · 1 t. 11 min.James Laxton, ASC is the Academy Award nominated cinematographer of Moonlight. His latest project is Season 2 of Beef, the acclaimed Netflix series created by Lee Sung Jin. This…
- Evoking dread in Something Very Bad is Going to Happen · 1 t. 11 min.Krzysztof Trojnar is the cinematographer of the Netflix series, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. It’s a genuinely unsettling horror show about a woman whose anxiety about…
- Lawrence Sher ASC: filming Apex in the Australian wilderness · 1 t. 11 min.Lawrence Sher, ASC, is the cinematographer of Apex, the action thriller currently sitting at number one on Netflix. Apex stars Charlize Theron as a woman hunted through the…
- Tari Segal, ASC: visual magic in Margo’s Got Money Troubles · 1 t. 11 min.Margo's Got Money Troubles DP Tari Segal, ASC approached the show with spontaneity, intimacy, and a creative way to bring static backdrops to life. Margo's Got Money Troubles…
- DP Greta Zozula on the look of The Testaments · 1 t. 11 min.DP Greta Zozula remakes the world of Gilead in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. She chose a very specific color palette and brighter look to show the optimism for…
- The scrappy, indie production of Hunting Matthew Nichols · 1 t. 11 min.Hunting Matthew Nichols is an indie horror film that’s shot as a mockumentary/found-footage movie about a documentary filmmaker investigating her brother's disappearance 20 years…
- Two horror films, one DP: They Will Kill You, Faces of Death · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 353: Isaac Bauman Cinematographer Isaac Bauman captured the visual identities of two different horror movies in They Will Kill You and Faces…
- Ted Hope, Hope For Film: the rebirth of independent cinema · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 352: Ted Hope Producer Ted Hope has worked in the film business for over 40 years, producing dozens of features with several Academy Awards…
- Two DPs, one vision: creating the look of Pluribus · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 351: Marshall Adams, ASC and Paul Donachie Pluribus DPs Marshall Adams and Paul Donachie share a visual shorthand, love of wide shots, and…
- Lawrence Sher, ASC reimagines Frankenstein for The Bride! · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 350: Lawrence Sher, ASC DP Lawrence Sher felt creatively challenged on The Bride! The "everything burger" movie combines many film techniques…
- 2026 Academy Awards nominations with Jenelle Riley · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast 2026 Oscar Special Jenelle Riley, three-time Emmy-winning entertainment journalist and host, chats with Ben and Illya for our SEVENTH annual Oscar…
- James Whitaker: Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die’s visual chaos · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 349: James Whitaker, ASC Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die DP James Whitaker, ASC played with different genres, with over 70 setups a day in the…
- Danny Cohen, BSC: Slow Horses ‘dirty London’ cinematography · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 348: Danny Cohen, BSC DP Danny Cohen, BSC, reveals how he crafted the "dirty London" look of Slow Horses through motivated lighting, high ASA…
- Into the Dark Ages: the gothic vision of The Dreadful · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 347: director Natasha Kermani and DP Julia Swain In the medieval horror film The Dreadful, director Natasha Kermani and cinematographer Julia…
- Special Episode: Frederick Wiseman, acclaimed filmmaker · 54 min.The Cinematography Podcast Special: Frederick Wiseman With the passing of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, here is a re-release of our 2020 interview. He discusses City Hall…
- Adolpho Veloso: capturing memory, naturalism in Train Dreams · 1 t. 11 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 346: Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP The film Train Dreams tells a story that feels less like a narrative and more like a memory. It began as an…
- Sean Bobbitt on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’s madness · 1 t. 28 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 345: Sean Bobbitt In the landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, few franchises carry as much visual baggage as the 28 Days Later franchise…
- Russell Carpenter, ASC: Lighting the world of Fire and Ash · 50 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 344: Russell Carpenter When cinematographer Russell Carpenter began working on Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash concurrently…
- DP Michael Bauman on One Battle After Another’s improv style · 1 t. 20 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 342: Michael Bauman Cinematographer Michael Bauman recently earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography for his work on One…
- Amy Vincent, ASC on the visual heart of Song Sung Blue · 1 t. 10 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 342: Amy Vincent, ASC Cinematographer Amy Vincent, ASC feels like she's reached the place where she wants to be, working on the kinds of films…
- Caleb Heymann: the cinematic playground of Stranger Things · 1 t. 10 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 341: Caleb Heymann Cinematographer Caleb Heymann has been a key architect of the Stranger Things aesthetic since the tail end of Season 3…
- Steve Yedlin’s gothic look for Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man · 1 t. 9 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 340: Steve Yedlin, ASC Cinematographer Steve Yedlin, ASC, and director Rian Johnson have shared a creative shorthand for over thirty years…
- BONUS EPISODE: Sinners DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC · 53 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 339: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC was first introduced to director Ryan Coogler through fellow DPs…
- Bryan Fuller and Nicole Whitaker: Dust Bunny’s nightmare whimsy · 1 t. 15 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 338: Bryan Fuller and Nicole Hirsch Whitaker Bryan Fuller has one of the most recognizable visual signatures in modern television. Whether…
- Eric Lin and Lyle Vincent tell a tragic story in Rosemead · 1 t. 15 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 337: Eric Lin and Lyle Vincent Rosemead tells the tragic, true story of Irene (Lucy Liu), a terminally ill single mother, and her son, Joe…
- Alice Brooks, ASC returns to Oz in Wicked: For Good · 1 t. 3 min.The Cinematography Podcast Episode 336: Alice Brooks, ASC For cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC, shooting both Wicked and Wicked: For Good concurrently was a huge feat. The…







