“You have to go where you’re scared to do anything interesting. To move anywhere with your life, you have to venture out of your comfort zone now and then. This was very much out of mine.”
For cinematographer JAMES KNIEST, making THE DEVIL’S MOUTH was “fascinating, challenging, and I think very fruitful.”
An endlessly fascinating, wildly entertaining, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately moving portrait of acclaimed creature creator and special effects master Steve Johnson.
Philip Byron used to teach 6 a.m. spin classes. I exercise by perfectly balancing a glass filled with ice while lifting it from the bar.
Curiosity is contagious. As Shields himself put it: “Everybody on this movie learned everything.”
TOMMY JACKSON’s LAND OF WOLVES comes from an unfiltered voice fueled by ambition.
For writer/director BLAIR MOORE, BADLAND RISING is “a character-driven film with complementary action that suits those characters.”
“We are capable of bringing our dreams into the world…I feel a lot more capable, and I feel that other people who don’t believe that they’re capable are capable.”
“Constraints lead to creativity.” Those constraints ultimately became one of the film’s greatest strengths.
“We always put the characters first,” Tuck explains. “The plot brings our characters together, and we become attached to those people…The plot is secondary.”
“I was googling, ‘What are the most deadly animals on Earth?’” Nunn recalled with a laugh. “Hippos came up as one of the deadliest. It’s wild — they kill upwards of 500 people a year, more than sharks, lions, elephants combined.”
For CARY STACY, the true joy of episodic storytelling isn’t simply the individual moments. It’s the opportunity to develop a long-form sonic identity across an entire season.
