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www.SHOOTonline.com Winter 2018 Super Bowl Feedback 12 Films’ titles & photo credits on page 3 credits titles & photo Films’ The DGA Awards 22 Road To Oscar 4 ASC Awards Preview 24 VES Awards Preview 26 Production Outlook 15 Sundance Film Festival 27 How Do Talented S I New Directors N C E E E 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Take Their Careers 2 To The Next Level? They enter SHOOT’s Annual NEW DIRECTORS SEARCH Visit EnterNDS.SHOOTonline.com to enter. See page 31 for details. BAFTA WINNER WINNER WINNER DGA NOMINEE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL CRITICS’ CHOICE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS NOMINEE DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE LONDON BEST SPORTS BEST DIRECTOR (THE ORWELL AWARD) AUDIENCE AWARD DOCUMENTARY BRYAN FOGEL “THERE WERE INSTANCES OF DOPING USE, TRUE. BUT NO ONE IS MAKING A BIG SHOW OF IT.” – VLADIMIR PUTIN JANUARY 30, 2018 “AN EXTRAORDINARY SPORT MEETS ESPIONAGE THRILLER. ICARUS LAYS OUT THE FULL ABHORRENT SCALE OF RUSSIA’S SYSTEMATIC CHEATING AUTHORISED FROM THE VERY TOP. 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Ger- daughters and how they coped with their is “the most powerful weapon we have Print Issues Subscription Service wig said to her peers in the audience, “Sto- mother's absence. against evil.” [email protected] SHOOT (ISSN# 1055-9825) printed edition is published bimonthly for members by DCA Business Media LLC, 256 Post Road East, #206, Westport, CT 06880. Printed periodicals by Celine Tricart postage paid at Westport, CT and at additional mailing offices. POV POSTMASTER: Send address changes to SHOOT, P.O. Box 184, Lowell, MA 01853 USPS (06-234) Directing VR in a War Zone–“The Sun Ladies” SHOOT ePubs The SHOOT >e.dition weekly ePub is published on Friday. The SHOOT Dailies are published daily Mon.-Fri. Brand New[s] weekly ePub is published Wednesdays. I was teaching VR in also looked like an improvised explosive women, to understand their state of mind, SHOOT Screenwork published Mondays. San Francisco when I device, making every checkpoint crossing their longing for peace, honor and dignity. www.shootonline.com/subscribe received an unforget- stressful. When I met the Sun Ladies, I was VR is about “being there” and empathy. It SHOOTmobile Get the SHOOTonline Mobile app table call. It was Maria blown away by their incredible strength is vital to take in the environment and cap- App Store: iPhone.SHOOTonline.com Bello, trying to produce a documen- and beauty. I also noticed how similar we ture the emotion. This is done by finding Google Play: Android.SHOOTonline.com Mobile Web Version: m.SHOOTonline.com tary on the Sun Ladies; women fighting were. If not for the uniform and machine the best camera placement and the right SHOOT is printed in the U.S.A. against ISIS. She asked me if I could be in guns, they were like other women, braid- pace through editing. VR is a completely Iraq next week to shoot and direct. I said ing each other’s hair. That’s why our film different type of filmmaking. It can be yes, hung up and cried. makes people emotional: It’s not about transcendent. We must abandon the total Days later in Erbil inside Iraqi Kurd- victims of war, it’s not about unattainable control we love as filmmakers and let each SHOOT is a member of: istan, my heart was pounding. I met one movie super-heroines. It’s about you and viewer see slightly different scenes. of our producers, Dylan Roberts, and me. The Sun Ladies and us are the same, Premiering at the Sundance Film Fes- co-director Christian Stephen, both film- just the world around us is different. tival, we offered our audience the choice makers and war journalists. We spent six We were able to tell the story of these to write letters to the Sun Ladies. An emo- Follow SHOOT at: #SHOOTONLINE days in Iraq, from the Syrian border to women in an immersive, intense way. tional crowd gathered around the table, refugee camps in Dohuk, interviewing Guided by the voiceover of Sun Ladie picking up pens and paper to write. The Yazidi women who had been taken as sex Captain Xate Shingali, we explore her life, day we left, Xate’s second in command, Cover photo credits (from top left, clockwise) for The Road slaves when ISIS invaded Iraq. They are from famous singer in Kurdistan to the Fahima, came to me and whispered in my To Oscar: Darkest Hour (photo by Jack English/courtesy now fighting back with AK-47s and sheer frontlines. We mix footage of breathtaking ear: “I love you.” I cannot wait to get back of Focus Features); The Shape of Water (photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight); Get Out (photo courtesy of Universal determination to free their captive sisters. Iraqi landscapes and their military train- to deliver the letters and tell her “me too.” Pictures); Lady Bird (photo by Merie Wallace/courtesy Shooting 360 isn’t easy, even more true ing compound with VR animation and Celine Tricart recently signed with The of A24); Call Me by Your Name (photo courtesy of Sony ° Pictures Classics); and Dunkirk (photo courtesy of Warner in Iraq. Our camera (generously supplied news footage. The most important thing: Cavalry Productions and SPECTACLE to Bros. Studios). by Google) was the best VR camera but it we bring our audience close to these direct spots and branded content. February 2018 SHOOT 3 ROAD TO OSCAR Perspectives From Different Filmmaking Disciplines Reflections on The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me by Bros Warner courtesy of Your Name, Beauty Searchlight courtesy of Fox and the Beast, of A24 Wallace/courtesy Merie by Photo Darkest Hour By Robert Goldrich, Road To Oscar Series, Part 14 Photo by Jack English/courtesy of Focus Features Jack English/courtesy by Photo of Focus courtesy Pictures of Universal courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics courtesy Pictures of Sony Along The Road To Oscar is a significant moderated by director Jeremy Kagan.