1) How did you get into directing?I was a kid and I loved my dog: the way his tongue lolled to the side opposite his gaze, his proud display of black paw pads as he laid on his stomach, the freckles on his nose. I wanted to remember him forever, so I took endless Polaroids…
1) How did you get into directing?I never set out to direct. Photography was one of my first passions and then people told me I was good at writing so I did that for a while before I landed at a production company producing documentary style branded content pieces. I got a tremendous amount of…
1) How did you get into directing?I’ve always been a film lover. In college, I got the opportunity to direct a short documentary in Israel about a co-existence program using sports to bring Palestinian and Israeli youth together. There I met a producer from HBO, who needed help on an upcoming documentary. This led to…
1) How did you get into directing?Since I was born my parents worked in the ad world so growing up I would go to creative and client meetings with them. We always had cameras laying around the house and I suppose directing for me first started with making skate videos with those camera. I was…
1) How did you get into directing?I began in public radio, and during my last year of college I transitioned to turning my radio pieces into film. My filmmaking is still very rooted in my radio stories, and I always begin my process by making a radio story. Then I turn it into a film….
1) How did you get into directing? As a child I wanted to become either an actress, an astronaut or a surgeon. Directing somehow seemed to be the perfect synthesis of all those jobs. 2) What is your most recent project? I just produced and directed a web series The Whitlock Academy for Isiah…
1) How did you get into directing? Nathan: Making short films and animations is something Adam and I have been doing for fun since we were kids. I remember visiting MGM Studios when I was about 12 years old and seeing the artists creating cells for Pocahontas, it made a huge impression on me. Growing…
1) How did you get into directing? I’ve been crewing sets as a gaffer/key grip since graduating film school in ’06. Of course, the whole point of film school was that I wanted to be a writer/director, but being young, it’s so easy for one’s goals and one’s focus to misalign. I don’t knock…
1) How did you get into directing? It was a long and unusual journey that started with dropping out of film school and going traveling. Eventually the money ran out and I realized that I like to eat and sleep in clean beds, so I settled in London and managed to get a job as…
1) How did you get into directing? That’s a tough question. I believe it started when I began daydreaming for the first time. My mind wandered into exciting stories that I eventually wrote down and turned into short stories. Those short stories became short films and when I bought my first Sony camera in High…