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Director of Kodak Motion Picture and me furious,” said Luca Guadagnino, also agrees that digital productions Entertainment, and a veteran of the director of Suspiria. Christopher Nolan are not necessarily less expensive than movie industry who has worked in put it this way: “As far as the cost, it’s film. “It looks cheaper until you take almost all areas of movie production a complete fallacy. I’m making my into the account the entire production as a consultant to, among others, films cheaper than anybody working and postproduction chain. Directors Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer. at the same scale on digital. There tend to shoot more volume digitally Bendetti told me that she has seen are no efficiencies to be gained there than they would on film, sometimes many examples of established artists and no money to be saved. There’s a lot more. While it may not cost who work on film mentoring younger been an aggressive fight against anything to capture more data, what directors and taking an active part in photochemicals by companies who does cost money is all the overtime a supportive community. The Kodak make money by change. They make pay for the cast and crew, as well as Awards event, which takes place about money by selling you new equipment the editors. Then you have storage a week before the Academy Awards, and building new equipment. The costs. It’s a huge volume of data to has become a place for the community studios saw an opportunity to stop manage, and that’s not even taking to meet and talk about craft. 2019 paying as much for release prints and into account keeping it readable in the was the third time the event has been follow more of a television model future as formats change.” Director of Photography Linus Sandgren and crew on-set during Director Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot on the set of the action adventure held, and it has expanded each year, where you’re broadcasting films rather production of First Man, directed by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Damien WONDER WOMAN, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Clay Enos including television, commercial, and than physically shipping them.” Sean Baker, a young independent Chazelle. Credit: Daniel McFadden/Universal Pictures and / TM & © DC Comics. ©n2017 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. and music video formats. “There has been director/writer/producer whose films DreamWorks Pictures RATPAC ENTERTAINMENT, LLC incredible growth across the board, Vanessa Bendetti agreed with Nolan, have won prizes like the New York with especially staggering growth and added, “We (Kodak) are the only Critics Circle Award, opened up to in the 8mm and 16mm formats from large-scale producer of motion picture Filmmaker Magazine on the subject. next generation auteurs,” said Steve color negative film left, and only one “We’re going to have issues with digital Bellamy, President of Kodak Motion voice in Hollywood compared to films, at least the ones that haven’t Picture and Entertainment, at the 2019 an entire industry of digital camera been film out-ed. …There’s no studio Awards. manufacturers and their supporting for (many of my) films, I’m basically infrastructure. They have huge the person who’s solely responsible More and more directors have started budgets to market their products and for their long lives. It seems like it’s an to speak out against the idea that way of doing things, and this makes endless thing, I’m constantly spinning shooting on film is more expensive than it tough to get our message out. We drives. …I have [my masters backed up shooting digitally. “It’s an ideological are very grateful for directors like on] LTOs, and still I feel it’s not enough. lie of the industry to say, ‘Don’t shoot Christopher Nolan, who champion film, I lost a mezzanine file of Starlet the on film because it’s less expensive to its benefits, and its importance to our other day — a top-quality [file]. That shoot on digital.’ I see directors that industry.” Bendetti reports that they drive just stopped spinning. …I just I love, who have been making films see lots of successful business models want to get these films all transferred forever on film, surrendering to the for movies shot on film, from small to 35mm and give them to the Library Director of Photography HOYTE VAN HOYTEMA, Director/Producer John David Washington as Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, ideology of digital — it’s ridiculous, indie productions with a total budget of Congress and be like, ‘That’s it.’ “ CHRISTOPHER NOLAN and crew filming Dunkirk. ©2016 Warner a Focus Features release. Photo by David Lee. © 2018 Focus Features it’s a complete lie, and it makes of $100,000 to huge blockbusters. She Bros. Entertainment Inc., Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC and Ratpac LLC. All Rights Reserved Entertainment, LLC 26 27