Science Fair
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“It Was a Bit of a Scramble Chasing Them All Around the Convention Center”: DP Peter Alton on Science Fair
Documentary DP Peter Alton has shot non-fiction pieces on El Chapo, Tupac Shakur and the history of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Alton was hired by directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster to shoot Science Fair, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. The film follows nine students as they arrive at the 2017 International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles. Alton spoke with Filmmaker about his intimate, unobtrusive approach to filming documentary interviews and action. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 26, 2018 -
Editor Tom Maroney on the International Science and Engineering Fair Documentary Science Fair
Tom Maroney has worked as an editor on more than a dozen documentary TV series for the Discovery Channel, PBS, National Geographic, MTV and other channels. In 2017 he edited Nobody Speak: Trials of The Free Press, which premiered at Sundance and was released by Netflix. He returns to Sundance this year for Science Fair, a documentary in the Kids program of the festival. Maroney speaks with Filmmaker below about the film’s character-driven approach and how he and directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster sought to structure a film around a competitive science fair when “it was clear from the beginning that […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2018 -
“More Used to Filming Drug Busts than Nerd Conventions”: Directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster | Science Fair
As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and unpredictable? What roles did chaos and order play in your films? Before making our first feature film, we were both investigative reporters. We’ve spent a dozen-plus combined years hanging out with drug dealers, pimps, warlords and cartel kingpins in some sketchy places, so we were pretty used to working in hard-to-predict environments. We naively thought that making a light hearted documentary about the science fair would be […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 20, 2018
