Friends With Benefits
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Podcast Overview
<p>The podcast that brings together two long-distance best friends who catch up with their nearest and dearest industry friends for a candid conversation about the good, the bad, and the sexy of their filmmaking journeys. </p>
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1/31/2024
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November 18, 2024
Friends With Benefits with Trevor Gates
With a background in music; playing piano and writing from a young age, Trevor has always had an affinity for sound and sonic arrangement. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area and Portland, Oregon, Trevor decided to take a leap of faith to pursue a career in sound. After attending The Art Institute of California Los Angeles and earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Audio Production, Trevor started working as an engineer and producer with an established R&B music producer. Trevor was next presented an opportunity to create sound for film. Within six years, Trevor has creatively participated in the soundscape of over 100 films. Within Trevor's sound career, he has been awarded a participation Grammy Award for the gospel song Jesus by Le'Andria Johnson and a Golden Reel Award for best sound effects and sound design for the feature film, The Liberator (2013). He received another Golden Reel in addition to an Emmy for the acclaimed documentary, Sonic Sea (2016). Trevor's recent work in feature films include Get Out (2017), Hell or High Water (2016), Don't Breathe (2016), and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016).
October 24, 2024
Friends With Benefits with Mauro Fiore, ASC
Mauro Fiore is an Italian-American cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Avatar (2009). Fiore was born in Marzi, California, and moved to the US with his family in 1971. He attended Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He started out pursuing a career in sociology but was captivated by photography and art. He went on to receive his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 1987 and moved to Los Angeles to jumpstart his career. He graduated from the AFI Conservatory, where he met cinematographers Janusz Kamiński and Phedon Papamichael. Early in his career, he worked with fellow Columbia College and AFI graduate Janusz Kamiński, initially on B movies before the two gradually worked their way up into higher-profile projects. He was Kamiński's grip, his camera operator, and eventually his second unit photographer on The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad (both 1997). He was the director of photography on Kamiński's directorial debut, Lost Souls (2000). Fiore shot 17 episodes of the television series Tracey Takes On... His first major motion picture credit as cinematographer was the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Get Carter (2000). He established a partnership with director Antoine Fuqua, beginning with Training Day (2001), and has shot six more of the director's films since. His other feature film credits during this time included Wayne Wang's The Center of the World (2001), Michael Bay's The Island (2005), and Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010). Fiore shot James Cameron's Avatar (2009), where he and the director utilised a variety of cutting-edge techniques to combine a live-action shoot with computer-generated characters and environments. Fiore and Cameron utilised a unique camera referred to as a "simulcam," which recorded the live-action footage with virtual camera CGI footage in real-time. For his work on the film, Fiore won Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards. Subsequent films Fiore has worked on include Real Steel (2011), Dark Phoenix (2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), A Good Person (2023), and The Killer (2024). In 2021, he shot his first film produced in his native Italy, Security.
September 11, 2024
Friends With Benefits with Gabriella Moses
Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning director, writer, and production designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her production design work has been featured across top film festivals across the globe including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and SXSW. Her work as a writer/director has received support from the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab, Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access Lab and Creators Market, IFP (The Gotham) No Border’s Film Market and the Los Cabos Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund programs. She has participated in the the Sundance Screenwriter's Intensive, the NYWIFT "From Script to Pre-Production" Workshop, Tribeca and Chanel Through Her Lens, AT&T Untold Stories program and the annual Black List Screenwriter’s Lab. Most recently she was selected for the inaugural WScripted Cannes Screenplay List, LALIFF & Netflix Inclusion Fellowship and The Black List Latinx List. Her screenplay EL TIMBRE DE TU VOZ won Fresh Voice’s Best Drama screenplay including recognition as through their Diversity & Inclusion and our Culture & Heritage Spotlight Awards. Her directorial debut feature BOCA CHICA produced by Selene Films in the Dominican Republic is premiering at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. She believes in sharing stories with underrepresented protagonists that test viewer’s perceptions of identity and their imaginations.
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<p>The podcast that brings together two long-distance best friends who catch up with their nearest and dearest industry friends for a candid conversation about the good, the bad, and the sexy of their filmmaking journeys. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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