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2024 Sundance Questionnaire: Cinematographer Responses
Photo by Maya Dehlin Each year, Filmmaker sends all Sundance feature film or series cinematographers a questionnaire to complete ahead of their film’s festival screening. We also send out a single question for feature directors to answer as well as questionnaires for editors and first-time Sundance feature producers.
Below, find links to individual cinematographer responses, which will be updated daily during the festival.
“I Feel Like We Made an Image That I Have Never Seen Before”: DP Eric Yue on I Saw the TV Glow
“Creating a Mood and Tone Is the Most Impactful Element of Cinematography”: David Bolen on Thelma
“Each Day Was a White-Knuckle Ride”: DP Ryan Kernaghan on Kneecap
“We Tried to Take Advantage of What We Found on Site”: DP Nicolas Canniccioni on How to Have Sex
“The Images Mostly Emerged Intuitively”: DP Yunus Roy Imer on The Outrun
“I Get to Work with So Many Talented People”: DP Kevin Fletcher on It’s What’s Inside
“Simplicity Would Become One of Our Fundamental Rules”: DP Ximena Amann on Sujo
“There’s a Gritty Reality That is Undeniable”: DP David Timoner on Dig! XX
“You Live and Die by Your Crew”: DP Doug Emmett on The American Society of Magical Negroes
“Love Machina Taps into the Lofty Idealism of the 1960s”: DP Peter Sillen on Love Machina
“We’re There To Solve Logistical Problems All Day Every Day”: DP Steve Yedlin on Winner
“The Biggest Challenge on a Verité Production is Time”: DP Christopher LaMarca on Sugarcane
“The Audience Must Be Transported Here to Feel What It’s Like”: DP Andrey Stefanov on Porcelain War
“Adapt and Let the Film Show You What It Wants to Show You”: DP Kristen Correll on My Old Ass
“It’s Super Important to Me to Light Scenes, Not Shots”: DP Jih-E Peng on Girls Will Be Girls
“Shooting in the Woods Can Be Really Exciting”: DP Wilson Cameron on Good One
“I Prepared Myself by Digesting a Lot of Close-Ups and Portraits”: DP Iikka Salminen on Sebastian
“Operating Handheld for the Whole Film”: DP Matthew Ballard on Tendaberry
“My Main Idea Was To Work With Perspective”: DP Michał Dymek on A Real Pain
“It Was Essential to Offer the Cast Complete Freedom of Movement”: DP Mauro Pinheiro Jr. on Malu
“Our Style Was Very Observational”: DP Bruce Sakai on And So It Begins
“I Am an Obsessive Collector of Photography Books”: DP Alejandro Mejia on In the Summers
