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Five Lessons We Learned While Making STARLET

by Blake Ashman-Kipervaser (producer)

As a film producer I find that each production I work on has its own unique set of challenges and the process can feel a bit like a roller coaster ride at times. Yet somehow things always seem to work out, and hopefully after its done you feel you’ve learned something or become stronger at what you do. With STARLET undergoing finishing work and getting ready to be released later this year I’ve thought back on some of the recent close calls and other experiences we survived during the making of the film and how fortuitous many of them seem to be in hindsight.  Here are five examples which I hope will help other filmmakers in some shape or form. 

1. The right place at the right time 

While developing another project STARLET director Sean Baker,

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It Does Keep Getting Better And Better

The evidence is out there. The future is less painful than the present. Our tools keep improving. Access too. Thus opportunity. Wasn’t it less than a year ago that we hadn’t seen all that a DSLR camera can do? Evidently, REVERIE was the first 1080p video widely released that was shot with the Canon 5D MKII. I am sure that the millions of folks who have now watched it weren’t all filmmakers, but still you can feel the excitement of watching it for the first time and recognizing what you can do with these cameras. They’ve already made films I am involved in better.

Reverie from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.