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tick tick... Boom! & In The Heights w/ Alice Brooks A.S.C

Alice Brooks, ASC is a cinematographer who has photographed award-winning feature films, television shows and commercials and her next feature project is Director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the hit musical WICKED. Brooks has worked with Chu on several of her last projects. She recently photographed tick tick…BOOM! for Netflix and Imagine Entertainment, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and produced by Ron Howard. tick tick...BOOM! It Premiered at AFI Fest on Nov. 10, then debuts in theaters for a limited run before heading to Netflix. Her other recent work includes the 2021 summer release of Miranda’s IN THE HEIGHTS for Warner Bros. also 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.

Da 5 Bloods with Newton Thomas Sigel ASC.

Newton Thomas Sigel is an accomplished Hollywood Cinematographer who has been at it for 40 years. Getting his start with Haskell Wexler on documentaries, shifting to Second Unit work with Oliver Stone, and then transitioning into DP work on a plethora of feature films after that. Some of his films include The Usual Suspects, Bohemian Rhapsody, Drive, Extraction, Da 5 Bloods,  a slew of the X-Men films with Brian Singer, Valkyrie, Cherry, Fallen, and many more.

Tales From The Loop with Craig Wrobleski, CSC

In more than 30 years behind the camera, Craig Wrobleski csc has had the opportunity to photograph projects of most every description. After getting his start as a cinematographer shooting documentaries, sports and corporate films, Craig transitioned into music video and commercial work before taking on Second Unit Director of Photography duties on features and television movies. The next step in his evolution was to take on the main unit Directory of Photography role on features, TV movies and, most recently, television series. Craig’s credits include two seasons of the acclaimed FX series Fargo, Season One of Legion for FX, the 10 part event series of The X-Files, the Twilight Zone limited series, two seasons of the hit Netflix series Umbrella Academy and the groundbreaking Amazon series Tales From the Loop. His feature film credits include In the Tall Grass for Netflix - based on a Stephen King short story. Craig is the recipient of two CSC Awards in addition to his 16 Alberta Film and Television Award wins and has also been nominated four times at the CSC Awards and his Blurryman episode of Twilight Zone received and ASC Award nomination in 2020.

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 2

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. In this continuation of the first part of the interview we delve deep into the world of our new favorite show, Amazon's Tales From The Loop and Paul's work with Phillip Glass on the series.

Composing For Film & TV With Paul Leonard-Morgan: part 1

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. We reached out to Paul because of two different films. One documentary thriller called Last Breath and the Amazon hit series Tales From The Loop. Along the way we talk about all things composing. Paul's credits are far too numerous to list in totality but here's a summary. Here's worked with bands like Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Mogwai, and No Doubt. He's composed for film including Limitless, Dredd, 3 projects with Errol Morris including Wormwood, American Dharma, and The B-Side, Walking With Dinosaurs, etc. Video games including Warhammer 40,000 and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and is currently composing his first classical commission, a celtic concerto for Inter-Celtic Festival in Lorient.