Filmtalkz – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Hyun Jin Cho, a programmer for the London Film Festival, has been curating captivating content for over four years. Collaborating closely with colleagues, she has helped bring some of the world’s most beautiful films to England’s second-oldest film festival. 

 

Currently, Jin is leading the Experimenta Strand, focusing on artistic movements, shorts, documentaries, and select feature films. 

 

In our conversation, we explore what the festival means to Jin, the relationships she fosters along the way, and the intricate process behind curating one of the world's most iconic film festivals. She shares how rewarding it is to see the films she champions light up the screen. 

 

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Randi Altman built postPerspective from the ground up, working as Editor-in-Chief after founding the Leading Digital Magazine for the Post Production & Production communities 11 years ago.   She has found her niche in interviewing the guys behind the screens, the ones who help bring all the magic together in post.   The vision was to create an Architectural Digest of the films you see - 'how do you create these big gorgeous things but with tools that you can afford. I wanted to show what the big guys were doing to encourage the smaller guys that they could do that as well'.   From Editors on Netflix hits to Colorists on your favourite blockbusters, Randi shares who she was most excited to interview, how the technology has changed in the time she's been in the industry and whether she would go into this world herself…   ‘Create Incredible’ has now changed to ‘Filmtalkz’, but fear not, all episodes are still available here.   Have you got a story you want to tell? Sign up to the Filmworkz Academy to find out more ways we can support you.   Follow us for more on: Instagram Linkedin Letterboxd Twitter Facebook

 

We all love to watch a classic nature documentary, there’s nothing quite like it - especially for Picture Shop’s Colorist Dan Gill.     BBC’s 'Blue Planet II' was what first got him inspired, and now he’s grading hit shows like Netflix’s Our Great National Parks, Wild Babies, Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale and BBC Two’s Natural World: Florida - America’s Animal Paradise.     Since the show is filmed over many months, lots of different shots are put together which might look different in tone and color, and Dan uses Nucoda to make seamless transitions for an overall smooth and stunning look into our natural world.

 

Host Sophia Stanford takes a trip to his studio in Bristol and gets down to business, chatting about how he got into the industry (with the intention to work in Audio Production!), working with Aidan Farrell on TV favourites like Downton Abbey and Utopia, and what it’s like knowing Barack Obama has narrated alongside your work.

 

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This year’s Cannes Camera D’Or winner, ‘Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell’ (2023), has been hailed by Variety for its ‘meticulous, intricately staggered compositions (that) paint in the rich, wet greens of the surrounding forest, the mineral blues of weather-heavy skies and the interrupting gauze of mist over everything...’ 

 

It’s a poignant tale of grief and love, a man must return his nephew to his rural village in Vietnam whilst grappling with his own ghosts and desires.

 

Color and symbolism were key - this is where Mark Song comes in. As a Senior Colorist and Finishing Artist for Mocha Chai in Singapore, he was able to translate what the Director felt through color despite speaking different languages and even wrote a two page essay when he first watched it to understand its meaning.

 

Join us on the ‘Create Incredible’ podcast to hear about how he experiments with tropes in film to subvert genre expectations, what its been like working on an in house project, and his experience on other projects like ‘Shadows’ (2020) which was delayed for years because of Covid.

 

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Restoration artists Michael Coronado and Pedro Morelos joins ‘Create Incredible’ from the Duplitech offices in LA, to talk about the growing industry of restoration, how they got into this world, tips for starting out, and what draws them to restoring old footage. 

 

With both having some great titles under their belt, films like Legally Blonde, The Hurt Locker, Captain America, and Belladonna of Sadness, these two have a strong grasp and understanding of the restoration industry and why it's so important to share the incredible work that film restoration can do. 

 

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Oliver Schmitz is a South African director and screenwriter, who found fame in 1988 with the release of ‘Mapantsula’. It is considered to be the first anti-apartheid feature film by, for and about black South Africans, and tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system. 

 

The film originally debuted in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival to massive critical acclaim and is often studied in film schools due to its artistic value and expression of the South African struggle. 

 

Since it was filmed under apartheid, Oliver had to provide a fake script to the authorities to gain approval for its filming. Since then, Oliver has made several other feature films, including 'Shephards and Butchers' starring Steve Coogan, and ‘Life Above All', which was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. 

 

'Mapantsula' has been recently restored and was shown at the Berlinale earlier this year under its Classics Section - Oliver takes ‘Create Incredible’ through the process of putting this film back together, how working in a nightclub influenced his politics, and the ways that his team had evade the authorities whilst filming 'Mapantsula'.

 

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Peter Doyle is an innovative and pioneering colorist, currently at Post Works in New York, renowned for his creative and original approaches to color grading that has played a part in changing the industry itself. 

 

His career spans iconic and much loved franchises to award winning blockbuster films like Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Gentleman, Fantastic Beasts, Paddington, The Hobbit, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Theory of Everything, and the latest Creed. 

 

The list goes on: chance’s are, you’ve probably seen something he’s worked on…

 

On ‘Create Incredible’, Peter talks about what it was like working on set of these franchises, his musings on the future of the film industry, his advise for creatives entering the industry, and much more.

 

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Brecht Declercq has been working at the International Federation of Television Archives for nearly 7 years, serving as their President for the last two, representing and leading the federation in its vision and mission in their quest to protect media archives. 

 

He has worked all over Europe, starting out as a radio archivist for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, as digitisation manager at meemoo, the Flemish Institute for Archives, and now in Switzerland where he works for FIAT/IFTA.

 

’Create Incredible’ sits down with him to talk about the importance of preservation, global inequalities in protecting our heritage and the way that students can get involved in archiving.

 

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‘Create Incredible’’s latest guest is Doug Weir, who supervises film remastering and restoration at the BFI and was a key figure in releasing a recently restored version of the concert documentary 'Dance Craze' (1981), bringing to life footage of some of the most iconic British musical figures, like Madness and The Specials.

 

Two tone was a movement in the late 1970s born out of regional British cities under a period of economic turmoil, and was a take on the Ska music brought over by Jamaican immigrants in the 60s. 

 

Doug takes us through the almost investigative like journey he underwent to put this film together with R3store studios and the joy he felt at seeing an audience finally dance along to this joyous piece of history at its premiere.

 

We also talk about why it so important to understand what the original film maker intended, Scotland’s film heritage, classism in the industry, and the future of restoration.

 

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Blake Jones is Create Incredible’s latest guest, and is a color grading legend, with nearly three decades worth of experience. Film is in Blake’s blood: born in the hospital opposite the studio, both his parents worked at Disney, which meant he would see films like ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ be put together.

 

Blake’s own portfolio is vast, grading films like ‘Forbidden Planet', ‘Batman’, and most notably ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, and lets us in on the process required to put them together. He also is an experienced instructor, taking us through why its so important to be able to share this information.

 

Amongst other stories, he tells us about how a second 'Dracula' was filmed in Spanish, what it was like restoring 'Jaws'’ original reels, and having a surprise dinner with Alfred Hitchcock.

 

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