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The indie cinema icon, collaborating with Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín for the second time, breaks down how he entered into the mind of Anglelina Jolie's Maria Callas with exquisitely painterly images in various styles and formats.

Cinematographer now turned director Rachel Morrison knows a thing to two about managing an impressive feat and breaking boundaries as a woman. In 2018, Morrison, best known for her work on Fruitvale Station and Black Panther, became the first female cinematographer ever nominated for an Academy Award. Reflecting on garnering her nomination for Netflix's Mudbound, she acknowledges the hoops women in the industry have to go through.

"Nightbitch" is a film that depicts both the loss and rediscovery of self through motherhood. The loss of self, which a child-bearing mother experiences when her offspring enters this world, hasn’t been well-documented in mainstream media. Still, the struggle is a hot topic amongst mothers whose voices have grown collectively over the last half-century.

"Gladiator II" picks up 16 years after the first film ends. When director Ridley Scott was conceiving the original, the approach was, "Build the sets, fight real tigers, shoot real arrows," says cinematographer John Mathieson. This time around, things had moved forward and the Colosseum was at its height. But also there had been huge improvements in technology, and processes were now faster, easier and 3D printing technology had since evolved.

TheAnimation Guild(IATSE Local 839) and AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year contact.

PETALUMA, CA —23 Workers at 2K's Motion Capture (MoCap) Studio in Petaluma, California, have voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Friday. The election, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), marks the first successful unionization effort at a motion capture studio in the video game industry's history. The final vote count was 15 in favor (71%), with 6 against.

Unionized workers at the nonfiction production company behind PBS'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.have greenlit a first union contract with their employer.

Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night" opens with a roughly 3 1⁄2-minute single shot in which the camera quickly weaves through Studio 8H, capturing the chaos and energy as the now-iconic NBC series "Saturday Night Live" prepared to go "live from New York" for the Oct. 11, 1975,premiere.

"People are quick to criticize unscripted TV crews, judging and labeling them as not real filmmakers or storytellers. But the truth is that reality operators have instincts that are second to none," says Local 600 Director of Photography Dawn Fleischman, SOC.