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Category: Behind The Scenes

Picture North takes to the skies to celebrate Idaho in Blue Cross campaign
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Picture North takes to the skies to celebrate Idaho in Blue Cross campaign

By Reel Chicago Aug 8, 2022
How do you film in a state which is largely inaccessible by car? Production company Picture North takes us Behind the Scenes of a new Blue Cross of Idaho campaign by creati...
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Lakefront Pictures announce completion of Chicago made film The Unseen
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Lakefront Pictures announce completion of Chicago made film The Unseen

By Reel Chicago Jul 29, 2022
Chicago filmmakers Jennifer A. Goodman (also known as Jennifer Karum) and Ryan Atkins, co-founders of Lakefront Pictures, announced they have completed their Indie feature film...
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Where the Crawdads Sing: Polly Morgan collaborates with Olivia Newman
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Where the Crawdads Sing: Polly Morgan collaborates with Olivia Newman

By Panavision Jul 26, 2022
Behind the Scenes with Panavision in an interview with cinematographer Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC, Where the Crawdads Sing. Cinematographer Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC discusses her...
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Yasu Tanida reflects on six seasons behind the camera for This Is Us
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Yasu Tanida reflects on six seasons behind the camera for This Is Us

By Reel Chicago Jun 16, 2022
On Sept. 20, 2016, This Is Us premiered on NBC, introducing viewers to the cross-generational story of the Pearson family. Over the course of six seasons and a st...
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Sarofsky creates dazzling 3D glass-house main titles for The Staircase
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Sarofsky creates dazzling 3D glass-house main titles for The Staircase

By Reel Chicago May 24, 2022
Sarofsky's dazzling 3D glass house main titles for the HBO Max limited series The Staircase are so captivating that it will make you hit rewind to take another look. Inspi...
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Erin Sarofsky takes us behind the scenes of WeCrashed’s opening titles
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Erin Sarofsky takes us behind the scenes of WeCrashed’s opening titles

By Colin Costello Apr 12, 2022
The founders of coworking space WeWork, Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey, believed they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, rea...
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Ari Wegner ACS captures The Power of the Dog with Panavision optics
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Ari Wegner ACS captures The Power of the Dog with Panavision optics

By Reel Chicago Feb 24, 2022
Cinematographer Ari Wegner, ACS is no stranger to dramatic filming locations. For the 2013 feature Ruin, she worked in the Cambodian jungle; the remote landscapes of the 2...
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Chicago P.D.’s Tracy Spiridakos makes dramatic Chicago River rescue
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Chicago P.D.’s Tracy Spiridakos makes dramatic Chicago River rescue

By Joia DaVida and Barbara Roche Feb 21, 2022
We're taking you behind the scenes to show you how Tracy Spiridakos and stunt double Kelli Victoria Scarangello pulled off Chicago P.D.'s most challenging scene of the season. ...
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Coodie and Chike take us behind the scenes of ‘jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’
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Coodie and Chike take us behind the scenes of ‘jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’

By Reel Chicago Feb 18, 2022
Filmmakers Clarence Simmons and Chike Ozah — better known as Coodie and Chike — have worked with Kanye West on music videos like Through the Wire, Two Words and Jesus Walks...
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Interview: Director Kamelya Alexan winner of the MFF Empowerment Award
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Interview: Director Kamelya Alexan winner of the MFF Empowerment Award

By Javier Navarrete Feb 11, 2022
Director and self-proclaimed wearer of many hats, Kamelya Alexan won the Empowerment Award at the 2022 Midwest Film Festival’s Best of the Midwest Awards, for her short, Chan...
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Alice Brooks, ASC recounts the journey that led her to tick, tick… BOOM!
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Alice Brooks, ASC recounts the journey that led her to tick, tick… BOOM!

By Reel Chicago Jan 13, 2022
Based on playwright Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical stage musical, the movie tick, tick… BOOM! marks the feature directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda, who partnered...
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Sandro Miller: How a still master mastered motion
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Sandro Miller: How a still master mastered motion

By Reel Chicago Jan 12, 2022
If you’ve seen his work, you’ve been spellbound. Because when you look at a portrait by Sandro Miller, it’s as if his subjects are looking right back. This is magical...
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Composing duo Robl + Sutta score Chicago film Grasshoppers
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Composing duo Robl + Sutta score Chicago film Grasshoppers

By Reel Chicago Nov 17, 2021
The composing duo Robl + Sutta recently scored the original soundtrack for Grasshoppers, award-winning filmmaker Brad Bischoff’s directorial feature film debut. ...
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Behind the Scenes of ‘Respect’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’
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Behind the Scenes of ‘Respect’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

By Reel Chicago Oct 14, 2021
Kramer Morgenthau, ASC takes Panavision behind the scenes of the period features Respect and The Many Saints of Newark. On the surface, a biopic about “Queen of Soul...
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Behind the Scenes of The Suicide Squad with Erin Sarofsky
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Behind the Scenes of The Suicide Squad with Erin Sarofsky

By Reel Chicago Sep 17, 2021
The Suicide Squad, consider to be the best DC Universe film of all time, is the third James Gunn superhero action adventure for the creatives and producers from one-stop cross-...
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Cinematographer Jack Donnelly discusses Godfather of Harlem
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Cinematographer Jack Donnelly discusses Godfather of Harlem

By Reel Chicago Jul 30, 2021
Following his work on Season 1 of Godfather of Harlem, cinematographer Jack Donnelly returned for Season 2 to focus on preserving “a consistent visual style” for the se...
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‘In the Heights’ DP Alice Brooks talks crafting a big look
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‘In the Heights’ DP Alice Brooks talks crafting a big look

By Reel Chicago Jun 29, 2021
Cinematographer Alice Brooks discusses using DXL2 and G Series anamorphics to craft a big look for director Jon M. Chu’s musical In the Heights. In 2002, when cinematogra...
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Stunt insurance for an 8000 pound RV on a frozen lake
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Stunt insurance for an 8000 pound RV on a frozen lake

By Reel Chicago Jun 4, 2021
Jeremy Pinckert of Explore is an Emmy Award winning director of commercials and branded content. Time and time again, Jeremy has proven that he has the eye-catching vision...
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Steeves and Cutters on the making of before/during/after
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Steeves and Cutters on the making of before/during/after

By Reel Chicago Feb 2, 2021
While many people dream of assembling a Who's Who list of premier talents to help them tell their personal story on the big screen, highly accomplished actor turned screenwrite...
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Sarofsky talks details on doc series, ‘A Mystery to Me’
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Sarofsky talks details on doc series, ‘A Mystery to Me’

By Reel Chicago Nov 17, 2020
The filmmakers behind A Mystery to Me, a new documentary series that aims to raise awareness of the rare neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis (MG), give details on their inn...
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