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Got rice? 😈🩸🍚🗡️ Poster drop for @kaninfilm . We’ve been working on finishing this film and it’s almost ready! Can’t wait for everyone to see. stills by @julieeelogan design by @e.rasto

Happy Earth Day 🌎 🌳 In 2010 there was just a single tree on this hillside. By 2022 @itpa_brasil planted 500,000 trees in this area. One of their many reforestation projects in the Atlantic Forest region. I was lucky enough to spend a few days here while making a doc in early 2023. This footage has sat in a drive for a while and I’ve always loved the shots we got. Today I thought let’s cut it together and share some of it. Swipe over to see the before.

Some of the best and funniest lines from @kikehndez ’s interview we produced for @flightclub last year. Congrats to the @dodgers and @kikehndez on getting the W on Opening Day! ⚾️ #dodgers #baseball #productioncompany

Edit/Update: I’m so proud that I got to work as a Set Dec PA on BEST PICTURE WINNER One Battle After Another. This is one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had. And hopefully with this little post folks understand how many hands it really takes to make a film happen. I’m so grateful I got paired with the best boss @hktell . Here's a bit about how it went and sharing some of the parts I worked on that made it on screen. Every day I was given an envelope and a list of tasks. I basically pretended I was Ethan Hunt accepting various missions. To be totally clear as a PA I didn’t make any creative decisions but I did get creative in how I executed whatever was asked of me. Sometimes that meant going to 5 different motels and 10 gas stations / liquor stores to find the right ice bucket and a small white plastic bag that had no branding or text just before things were getting ready to roll. Or sourcing a chair from Offer Up that looks just right and is also good for Sean Penn to sit in. The biggest lesson I learned was I could have a great life and career working for other people’s projects. But if I do want to be a director or writer or DP then I cannot wait and I’ve got to get my own projects going. This is very hard when you’re trying to also pay rent though! But alas I gotta find a way. Also for what it’s worth sometimes there are long gaps between jobs. I would love to continue working on friends projects or help out on other folks projects when I can. It’d be cool to see how others run their sets and approach things. I applied many of the lessons from my time here (and from other sets) to the project @greengaskell and I are currently working on, @kaninfilm . And honestly a lot of the grind and hustle itself is the same. I just hope we can get to the higher budgets so we can all have healthcare and rates that make us all a proper living.

F1 is back! Here’s a couple clips from one of the shoots we did with Dropbox last year and the McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Adding a breakdown of how we did it below. This “sign the lens” trend got really popular last year and I was lucky to have prep time to test and execute it the way I wanted. Hopefully others find this helpful. First and foremost I’m not a DP but I do like figuring out the mechanics of how to achieve something. The references given to us were from broadcast tennis. First thing I noted was these are usually done outdoors so tons of light and second they use broadcast cameras. These cameras and sensors have deep depth of field so things in the foreground and background stay sharp. Ideal for watching any sport. That is how the signatures and the players would be in focus. On mirrorless cameras sensors are larger and have a shallow depth of field. You’ll see this on some NBA and NFL broadcasts now on the court and field. Each lens has a something called a ‘minimum focus distance’. I took note of what that distance was on the lens we used and tried to put the plexiglass as close to that distance as possible. That means we also needed a larger sheet (11”x14”) so the edges of it wouldn’t be visible. Additionally since we’d be indoors I wanted a strong enough light so we could be at f7 or f8 so we’d see the signature and driver clearly. Being wide open at 2.8 or lower would require us to potentially pull focus in the middle of the shot from the marker to the driver. Not ideal. Luckily we used the FX3 so shooting at the high base ISO made this easy. The other thing I found in my test was reflections. I solved this with a scrap of black fabric that I wrapped around the gap between the plexiglass and lens. A black Uniqlo t-shirt also works very well. The last thing is the pen. It’s opaque not translucent. Dry erase markers wouldn’t work for this. So I went to Baller Art Supplies and grabbed a few pens to test. Penco paint pens worked great. On to the actual shoot itself. We have extremely limited time so more prep on-site was needed to ensure this went smoothly. Continued in comments!

New work! Got to film and edit this interview with Ryan Coogler for @talkeasypod . Head over to their YouTube to watch. Shoutout to the crew @tikioffline and @joshuajortiz .

Kain na tayo. @kaninfilm Meet our cast: Monica Joelle Ortiz as Encar Erik Luminarias as Ding EJ Cabasal as Boy Jessica Cabasal as Ina Photos by @redgaskell

@industryhbo x 21 Savage - a lot re up because i made it shorter. originally saw this song cut to barry lyndon scenes by flanthippe on twitter. thought it’d be good for this episode of industry too

Never shared these on main but here are photos I took of the @anorafilm cast in 2024. Thank you @biancaparkes for the call. guess which one is film lol light/tech: @michaelcamacho assist: @greengaskell

Another year has passed and thankfully my hairline is still intact and I do not need to go to Turkey. I will ignore the ads from Hims no matter how aggressive they target me. I am going to focus on work in this recap. Short version is I worked with my brother @greengaskell a lot. We went around the country and around the world and then made a short film - KANIN. When I first started to freelance it felt like life or death with each project and I still feel that way sometimes. I thought after getting a bigger job (and awards) my trajectory would continue to go upwards but man it’s been a trip and the gap between where I am and where I want to be feels like it’s grown farther out of reach the more I do. Last year I was actually in the negative. That was a wake up call. Glad to say I turned it around this year. The biggest highlight I want to talk about is @kaninfilm . My brother @greengaskell and I started going to local film festivals together when I moved back to LA in 2022. We’ve been to several and made friends at each but haven’t done anything ourselves yet. At the end of 2024 he wrote something so good I knew we had to get it made. And this year we got it done. I told him no matter what we have to at least shoot it this year. I’m currently editing it and cannot wait to show everyone. So many people gave us a chance to make this and a caption feels inadequate to say thanks (like making a post about your mom on mother’s day instead of calling her (unless she is on IG like that)). I think “the grind” did wear me down last year and I felt a creative rut into this year. I used to be proud and excited of everything I made and then I began to question and compare it to other people’s work and doubt myself more. But the optimism has been renewed (for now lol). When things are hard I think of a line from one of my favorite shows last year The Pitt, “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” But I also remember that I am grateful this is what I get to do for work. Continued in comments! Damn I guess I had a lot to say.

The idea of driving out to the desert to shoot seemed a little crazy but when your director is genius and has directed projects for Disney, B.E.T, Billboard, etc,etc, you go. Not to mention your DP just happens to be in one of the most talked about films of the year “ One Battle After Another”, you go. Finally your scene partner just happens to also be crazy talented, hilarious but also in ◼️◼️◼️◼️( can’t say) you go.. So “ WE” went. “ WE “ laughed. “WE” made something. The Tales of Theo & Eli Ep6. TARGETS Now streaming on YouTube Link in bio

“In this business, you don’t outsource. You get your hands dirty.” 🔥 The Tales of Theo & Eli 🔥 New chaos. New episode. Watch now! Streaming on YouTube 📺 Link in bio.