Alex Churnoff is a lead colorist at Pictureshop, working on some of the most exciting sport docuseries on Netflix, like Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Tour De France: Unchained, and Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story. Reigning at the top of the Netflix charts, Drive to Survive has had an unprecedented impact on the world of racing, boosting viewer…

What started with a need to choose a film on Friday night transpired into a business - Ben Polkinghorne has fixed our cinematic indecision through AI with moveme.tv. Unlike content based algorithms that look at your previous choices, or collaborative filtering which recommends popular content, moveme.tv focuses on how a viewer is feeling in that mo…

In this episode, we chat with Andres Aparicio, a music artist from Bakersfield with over 50,000 monthly listeners and four albums under his belt. Andres knew he had a love for creating music early on with his life, picking up his first violin when he was only just eight years old. Influenced early on by bands such as My Chemical Romance, Dance Gavi…

Where do you encounter an acidic Mayfair glitz with a noughties Notting Hill bohemian look tied together with a strong sense of aristocracy? You come to Saltburn. In this episode, we chat to Set Director Charlotte Dirickx and Art Director Caroline Barclay about their work on Emerald Fennell's Saltburn (2023). A sticky, uncomfortable, hedonistic rio…

Filmworkz speaks with with Max Goldini, a colorist at Pictureshop, as he takes us through his journey into the industry, his experience grading BBC's 'Ambulance' and 'Everything I Know About Love', and why your greatest tool in post production is communication. ‘Create Incredible’ has now changed to ‘Filmtalkz’, but fear not, all episodes are still…

Filmtalkz catches up with Rowan Woods, the London Film Festival’s Series and Episodic Programmer for the BFI, just as the festival is about to begin, to chat about what we can expect, the months of planning that goes in to it, and how it caters to all audiences. We touch on the infamous Don’t Worry Darling (2022) drama and the impact social media h…

On our final episode of this season of Create Incredible, we go back to where we began by interviewing first time director Maya Katherine. Last time she was taking us through how her first short film Moishe came together and what it was like trying to break into the industry - this time we catch up on its progress since then and how it's been in po…

We all love to watch a classic nature documentary, there’s nothing quite like it - especially for Picture Shop’s Colorist Dan Gill. BBC’s 'Blue Planet II' was what first got him inspired, and now he’s grading hit shows like Netflix’s Our Great National Parks, Wild Babies, Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale and BBC Two’s Natural World: Florida - Amer…

This year’s Cannes Camera D’Or winner, ‘Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell’ (2023), has been hailed by Variety for its ‘meticulous, intricately staggered compositions (that) paint in the rich, wet greens of the surrounding forest, the mineral blues of weather-heavy skies and the interrupting gauze of mist over everything...’ It’s a poignant tale of gri…

Restoration artists Michael Coronado and Pedro Morelos joins ‘Create Incredible’ from the Duplitech offices in LA, to talk about the growing industry of restoration, how they got into this world, tips for starting out, and what draws them to restoring old footage. With both having some great titles under their belt, films like Legally Blonde, The H…

Oliver Schmitz is a South African director and screenwriter, who found fame in 1988 with the release of ‘Mapantsula’. It is considered to be the first anti-apartheid feature film by, for and about black South Africans, and tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to c…

Peter Doyle is an innovative and pioneering colorist, currently at Post Works in New York, renowned for his creative and original approaches to color grading that has played a part in changing the industry itself. His career spans iconic and much loved franchises to award winning blockbuster films like Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Gentl…

Brecht Declercq has been working at the International Federation of Television Archives for nearly 7 years, serving as their President for the last two, representing and leading the federation in its vision and mission in their quest to protect media archives. He has worked all over Europe, starting out as a radio archivist for the Flemish public b…

‘Create Incredible’’s latest guest is Doug Weir, who supervises film remastering and restoration at the BFI and was a key figure in releasing a recently restored version of the concert documentary 'Dance Craze' (1981), bringing to life footage of some of the most iconic British musical figures, like Madness and The Specials. Two tone was a movement…

Blake Jones is Create Incredible’s latest guest, and is a color grading legend, with nearly three decades worth of experience. Film is in Blake’s blood: born in the hospital opposite the studio, both his parents worked at Disney, which meant he would see films like ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ be put together. Blake’s own portfolio …

‘Create Incredible’s’ latest guest is Purab Kohli, an experienced Bollywood actor, model, and former video jockey, who initially found fame in India but is now moving to audiences around the world. Although starting off presenting TV programmes, like a travel show and the Indian equivalent of MTV, he found early success with Hip Hip Hurray. He has …

This week on ‘Create Incredible’, we chat with Michael Robayo who is an independent filmmaker from the Bronx, New York, who frequently works on music videos, dance films, and documentaries. Michael also set up his own production company, Site B studios, and works alongside artists and filmmakers who are committed to create human stories grounded in…

This week’s guest is Chin We, an award winning British Nigerian visual artist and filmmaker; through film, photography, and mixed media, she explores themes of social and cultural identity, representation, heritage, and the African diaspora. Her latest project takes her into the world of film, as she begins post production on ‘Nwanyịbùífe’ - an exp…

Our guest this week is Fabio Bedoya, who is a film restoration artist and colorist in Peru. Thanks to the DAFO grant that provides some small local companies funds to digitize and restore the film heritage of their nation, Fabio has been able to restore projects like Color de Mujer, Caminos de Liberación, and Viento del Ayahuasca. Fabio openly talk…

The Critics have been making waves in the film industry for the last few years, with their latest short film ‘Ogun Ola: War is Coming’ being picked up and produced by Morgan Freeman, and for recently winning the #YouTubeBlack Black Voices Fund. This group of young creatives from Nigeria have become famous for their DIY approach to their creative sc…

This week, Whitemore Masudi Ngwira is our special guest, and he lets us in on what it's *really* like working on reality shows as a colourist. Whitemore Masudi has worked predominantly on TV shows for South Africa’s major broadcasters, some of which include the popular Our Perfect Wedding and Date My Family. Whitemore also belongs to a whole host o…

Sophia Stanford chats with writer and director Kristen Dania about his experience directing short films and how he’s trying to break into the industry. Kristen initially started out as a photographer for concerts and then built on his armoury of filmic experience by documenting short films and then went onto film school. His two latest short films …

In this episode, our own Sophia Stanfold talks with Maya Katherine about her first film ‘Moishe’, which she wrote and directed herself during lockdown. ‘Moishe’ follows the story of young Jewish boys in Ukraine during the 1800s, who were often violently taken from their homes to be integrated into the rest of the Russian Empire and convert to Chris…