DIRECTOR’S CLOSE-UP RECAP: TANGERINE FILMMAKERS “PHONE IN” THE YEAR’S MOST INNOVATIVE INDIE1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteReach into your pocket. Pull out your iPhone (or Android). Look at it. Would you believe that this small, sleek bit of tech contains more raw filmmaking firepower than Orson Welles had at his disposal to make all of Citizen Kane?
It’s true-but there’s a reason that the availability and dexterity of lightweight, pocket-sized video cameras hasn’t necessarily led to an explosion in quality independent filmmaking. Telling great stories still requires the effort of talented storytellers, and talent can’t be manufactured. Such was the case with the gritty, LA-set sex worker comedy Tangerine, famously shot on the iPhone 5s. But there’s more to the film than the novelty of its shooting format; Tangerine was the subject of Film Independent’s fifth (and final!) night of the 2016 Directors Close-Up series.
via: Film Independent
Image Credit: Duplass Brothers Productions
