by Brandon Sparks | Essay
Shot selection can be one of the director’s best tools for communicating with an audience. It allows her to control what they see (or do not see) and manipulate the emotional impact of the story. And one of the most important and underappreciated shots in the...
by Lunacy Staff | Five For Filming
So, you’re film is playing at a film festival. Congratulations! We have a couple films on the festival circuit ourselves. The Lunacy films Plus One and The Short History of the Long Road are currently entertaining audiences in New York, Los Angeles, and...
by Lunacy Staff | Interviews
About Ross Putman After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Ross Putman started his career as a development executive before transitioning to independent film production. The company he co-founded, PSH Collective, went on to produce the Sundance...
by Lunacy Staff | Interviews
About Ani Simon-Kennedy Raised in Paris and based in New York, Ani Simon-Kennedy is a feature film, documentary and commercial director. Under the banner of Bicephaly Pictures, she collaborates with cinematographer Cailin Yatsko on socially-conscious stories. Her...
by Lunacy Staff | Five For Filming
You know the usual rookie errors: white walls, bad sound, haphazard composition, etc. But there are many more mistakes that are worth learning from. Here are five mistakes we’ve made, and the lessons we took from them! 1. Careless Collaborations Forget the director...
