Luke Lorentzen is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. Luke’s first feature film out of college, Midnight Family, follows a family-run ambulance business in Mexico City. Midnight Family is a verite film, shot with two cameras Luke operated simultaneously. The film has played at over 130 film festivals around the world and has won over 25 awards including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest. I was released theatrically in December 2019. Luke sat down with host Jennie Butler to discuss how he managed to shoot Midnight Family solo with two cameras, his philosophy on verite filmmaking, and the film's rocky path to Sundance.https://www.roughcutpodcast.com/Find Rough Cut on Instagram Find Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on InstagramThis episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Lance Oppenheim is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been collaborating with the NY Times since the beginning of college, making three Op-Docs, and now the brand’s first ever feature-length documentary, Some Kind of Heaven. The film was executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and premiered at Sundance in 2020. Some Kind of Heaven’s editor, Dan Garber, also joined the conversation.Find Lance on InstagramFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Kevin Klauber is a documentary editor based in Los Angeles. He is best known for editing the Oscar-winning documentaries Icarus and 20 Feet from Stardom. Since then, he's contributed to numerous feature documentaries and doc series for HBO, Netflix, and others. He recently contributed to the feature documentary Fantastic Fungi, and the upcoming Netflix doc, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana.Find Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Bing Liu is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Chicago. His first feature documentary, Minding the Gap, is streaming on Hulu and was nominated for best documentary at the 2019 Academy Awards. Find Bing on InstagramFind Rough Cut on Instagram Find Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Charles Haine has worked in the film industry since 1999 as a colorist, cinematographer, and entrepreneur. He founded the production company Dirty Robber in 2008, which has produced feature films, shorts, commercials, and music videos. Haine has authored two books about filmmaking, Business & Entrepreneurship for Filmmakers and “Color Grading 101”, and currently teaches at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.Find Charles Haine’s book Business & Entrepreneurship for Filmmakers on AmazonFind Charles’ blog The Week in Film TechRead Charles’ articles on No Film SchoolFind Charles Haine on TwitterFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out.

Wonbo Woo is Wired Magazine’s Executive Producer of Video. In just over a year, Wonbo tripled Wired’s subscribers on YouTube; the channel has 5.4 million at the time of this episode’s recording. Wonbo got his start in broadcast journalism, working for ABC’s Nightline, then NBC’s Nightly News. He’s based in New York.Find Wonbo Woo on InstagramFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Vanessa Carr is a Brooklyn-based cinematographer specializing in vérité-style shooting. Vanessa shot a handful of episodes for the New York Times docu-series, The Weekly, and has contributed to PBS Frontline, VICE, NY Times Op-Docs, and HBO. In this episode, Vanessa discusses what’s in her field kit, how The Weekly honed its unique style, and what she wishes she knew as a younger DP.Find Vanessa Carr on InstagramFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in San Francisco, specializing in branded films. His work has appeared at SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, as well as on Vimeo Staff Picks, The Guardian, VICE, CNN, and The Atlantic. Gorjestani’s film Exit 12 was commissioned by Square and was later acquired by Fox Searchlight.Find Mohammad on InstagramFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Courtney Coupe is the head of Great Big Story, a cinematic storytelling unit of CNN. Since it launched in 2015, Great Big Story has produced countless mini-documentaries, primarily distributed on Youtube. Courtney discusses how Great Big Story has honed their brand, why she thinks certain stories go viral, and why they turn down 80% of incoming pitches, even from their own producers.Check out Great Big Story on YouTubeFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out. 

Johnny Harris is a multimedia journalist at Vox. His show, Borders, is an international documentary series that explores people and culture at various border areas. Johnny also makes videos for his personal YouTube page, where he posts career advice and other musings.Johnny called in from his home in Washington DC to discuss how he was able to successfully pitch and execute Borders, his run-and-gun shooting style, and the benefits of working under pressure.Find Johnny Harris on InstagramFind Rough Cut on InstagramFind Host Jennie Butler on InstagramFind Producer Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagramhttps://www.roughcutpodcast.com/This episode is brought to you by Musicbed, which has made it easier than ever for you to find the song you're looking for with intuitive and easy-to-use browse and search, amazing indie artists and bands, incredible composers, and thousands of songs to choose from. To create your free account, go to musicbed.com. Plus, as a Rough Cut listener, you’ll get one month of subscription for free — or 20% off of a single-song license. Just enter promo code ROUGHCUT, all one word, when you check out.