![]() There are a lot less issues to deal with. The advantage of using GoPro as the main (and only) camera on set In my opinion, the execution is fantastic here. The film in not new and was finished in 2016, made the film festival rounds in 2017, and arrived on Netflix last month. ![]() Moreover, there are numerous very low budget projects who were shot by inexpensive cameras, that transformed into cinematic success stories, like the famous Paranormal Activity.Ĭhoosing GoPro over other cameras like the iPhone is a much more logical choice since GoPro grant filmmakers a lot more control on camera settings. It reminds us of other films that have been shot on other than a conventional cinema cameras, like Tangerine from Sundance which was shot on iPhones, or Steven Soderbergh, who – after revealing that everyone should shoot on iPhones ( we reported about it) – went to release “Unsane” at Berlinale Film Festival, a feature that was indeed entirely shot on said phone. The film has won several prizes from film festivals around its innovation of shooting everything with GoPros. Other cameras were tested by the filmmakers, including the iPhone, but somehow, they found the GoPro look was most compelling and organic – and looking at the footage, I have to agree that indeed was a good choice. This film is about two childhood friends who communicate through FaceTime and bond over revealing their darkest secrets.ĭirector Matthew Toronto and cinematographer Kristoffer Carrillo shot the movie entirely on the GoPro Hero 4, with the intent to mimic the look of Apple’s FaceTime chat service. In the era of new sensors, 8k resolution, sophisticated codecs and cameras as a part of a race to digital cinema technology’s invisible finish line, once in a while there is a cinematic gem which reminds us that the story is still the most important part of what we do!įace 2 Face, now available on Netflix in the US, is an independent movie told through computer/phone screens of two American teenagers. Read more to explore this very special and well executed project. For me, it probably going to be one of the most important films I will make, in my life.”Įmancipation is scheduled to go into production early next year.Face 2 Face, directed by Matt Toronto, is an award winning film shot entirely on GoPro Hero 4, and available on Netflix. ![]() An actor’s portrayal as close as the film could get to this world. When I sat down with Will, we both talked about taking our skill sets to another level for this one, and giving ourselves completely to it in an honest and fair, true way. He’s at a place in his life where, we know Will’s charming and a talented actor and that he’s physical and we’ve seen him go really deep in other films. I haven’t seen this film, this character, before,” he said. It always involves being saved by someone else, as opposed to…how I feel about it, is he would do everything possible to escape, to be free and then to get back to his family. “For me, there has always been this thing about most films I’ve seen about slaves. Just on that basis alone, I thought the film should be made on an epic scale.”įuqua, who believes the upcoming project is unorthodox as compared to other slavery movies, explained why Smith perfectly fits into the role. Not for revenge – it’s not a revenge film – but just to get home to his family, and he was fighting for freedom. It’s rare to have a film that, on the entertainment side, has action that I’ve never seen before, real action, a guy running through the swamps for his life, wrestling with alligators and snakes, being chased by hounds, then joining the Civil War, fighting against the Confederate army. “When I read the script, I thought, what an amazing journey, a heartbreaking and heart-racing film to have an opportunity to make. “It’s based on historical fact,” he said. We have to face our truth before we can move forward.”įuqua also revealed the movie is based off “historical documents” and “information from Peter’s own diaries that he kept.” ![]() That’s one of the most important reasons to do things right now, is show our history. We all have to look for a brighter future for us all, for everyone. You can’t fix the past, but you can remind people of the past and I think we have to, in an accurate, real way. “Which is interesting, when you put it into perspective with today and social media and what the world is seeing, again. “It was the first viral image of the brutality of slavery that the world saw,” Fuqua told Deadline. Three illustrations showing Peter after his escape, the welts from being whipped upon his back, and in uniform after he had joined the Union Army, featured in McPherson and Oliver in July, 1863 via Library of Congress
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