Friends With Benefits

About Friends With Benefits

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.

Publisher

Masters In Motion

Category

education · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2024

Latest episode

18 Nov 2024

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Nov 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).

2. 

   24 Oct 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.

3. 

   11 Sept 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.

4. 

   25 Aug 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Cecilia Delgado

   Cecilia Delgado is a Venezuelan and Brazilian filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her short film YOUNG MOM screened at InsideOut Toronto, Salerno Film Festival, and Future of Film is Female. It won the Audience Award at La Femme Independent Film Festival, premiered online on Film Shortage and Short Of The Week, and earned a Vimeo Staff Pick. As an editor, Cecilia’s work has screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Slamdance, Adelaide FF, and BFI London, and gone on to be distributed by HBO, STARZ, AmazonPrime, and TOPIC. She has edited content for Planned Parenthood, The New Yorker, and David Zwirner Gallery. Cecilia gravitates toward stories that shed light on important social issues and feature characters less often seen on the screen. She strives to be a part of projects that make an impact through well-crafted storytelling.

5. 

   14 Apr 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Larry Fong, ASC

   Larry Fong is a cinematographer based in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Linguistics, and from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) with a film degree. After graduation he started shooting music videos, including REM's 'Losing My Religion', winner of MTV's Music Video of the Year. TV commercials followed as did episodic television (JJ Abram's 'Lost'). His first studio film, '300', began a long running collaboration with director Zack Snyder, most recently Warner Bros' 'Batman v Superman'. His recent work with Universal, Paramount, Legendary, Disney, Amazon, and Netflix include 'Super 8', 'Kong: Skull Island', 'The Tomorrow War', 'Rescue Rangers', and 'Damsel'.

6. 

   21 Mar 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Joanna Naugle, ACE

   Joanna Naugle, ACE is a television and film editor based in Brooklyn. She is best known for her work on FX's THE BEAR, for which she won a Primetime Emmy, ACE Eddie, and BFE Cut Above Award. Her other television work includes RAMY (Hulu), BIG MOUTH (Netflix), 2 DOPE QUEENS (HBO), SOME GOOD NEWS (YouTube) and specials for various comedians including John Mulaney, Roy Wood Jr, Phoebe Robinson, Chris Gethard, and Ramy Youssef. Her film work includes MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE (SXSW 2023), MUSTACHE (SXSW 2023), BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (Sundance 2019), KATE CAN'T SWIM (Slamdance 2017), and the upcoming film Y2K (SXSW 2024). She has also done branded work for clients including Coca-Cola, Reebok, YouTube, Atlas Obscura, Sephora, Vevo, and Vice. Joanna co-owns SENIOR POST, a boutique post house located in Brooklyn, and is a proud member of American Cinema Editors, British Film Editors, and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. She is also a huge fan of flea markets, banana bread, and overly-complicated board games.

7. 

   6 Mar 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Chayse Irvin, ASC, CSC

   Chayse Irvin is a Canadian/American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with Director/Artist Kahlil Joseph. Chayse' first feature film as a cinematographer was Medeas (2013) in which he won the prestigious "Best Cinematography Debut" at the Camerimage Film Festival. Soon after Chayse began collaborating with Kahlil Joesph on numerous works of art eventually collaborating together on Beyonce's Lemonade in 2016. In 2017 at the Cannes Lions festival, Chayse won Gold for Sampha "Process", Silver for John Malkovich x Squarespace, and Bronze Apple Watch Series 2 "Go Time". In the same year Andrea Poloraro's "Hannah" took home Best Actress award for Charlotte Rampling and soon after Won, Silver Hugo Best Cinematography at the Chicago International Film Festival.

8. 

   14 Feb 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Joe Simon

   Joe Simon is a director and cinematographer based in Austin. He draws inspiration from a wide array of shooting environments, including documentary, narrative films, music videos, and commercials, to craft his unique visual style. Joe recently completed production on the feature film "Art of a Hit" in France, set to debut in 2024. In 2021, "The Get Together," a feature film, was released on Showtime and Amazon Prime. Joe's social justice documentary short, "7 Years and Counting," received acclaim as a Vimeo Staff Pick and earned recognition at various film festivals. September 2023 marked the global release of his feature documentary, "Man on the Run." He also premiered "Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird," a documentary about the band The Mars Volta, at the Rain Dance Film Festival in October 2023. In the same year, Joe's short film, "(DIS)CONNECTED" gained official selection status at the 2023 Austin Film Festival and won best Sci Fi at Toronto Shorts Festival. Additionally, Simon has shot numerous award-winning short films, such as The Volunteer, The Laundromat Off Malibu, The Study, Unfettered, and Low Tide. He was also the cinematographer on Season 3 of the CNN Original Documentary Series, “The Wonder List with Bill Weir”. His commercial work includes collaborations with brands like Nike, Red Bull, Budweiser, Dodge, Under Armour, and Toyota. Joe has also shot music videos for artists such as Leon Bridges, Khruangbin, Gary Clark Jr., and Breland.

9. 

   31 Jan 2024

   Friends With Benefits with Jon Connor

   Jon Connor is a feature film editor known for his storytelling prowess. With a career spanning over two decades, one of his standout collaborations was with the legendary Bill Murray on New World's "Cradle of Civilization," a film that garnered recognition as an Official Selection at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2021 where it premiered to a standing ovation. He worked with longtime editing collaborator Cristina Valdivieso on "Daniel" which was produced by Academy Award winner Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Jeff Waxman, Jennifer Madeloff, Ricky Staub and Dan Walser, and will premiere on HBO on December 20, 2023. Following closely on the heels of "Daniel" is "Man on the Run," the definitive accounting of the 1MDB saga which is set to premiere on Netflix on January 5, 2024. Jon Connor is paired back up with Cristina Valdivieso on a feature documentary for Amazon. This documentary is being edited from over 2,500 hours of footage and stars legendary wide receiver DeSean Jackson.

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