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- Filmmaker Sean Baker (Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway, Starlet) premiered his new film Tangerine at the Library theater Friday at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. A Q&A followed the screening during which Baker revealed that the film was shot entirely using three iPhone 5S phones.
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Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015, through Magnolia Pictures. [5] It received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, performances and portrayal of transgender individuals.
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By utilizing the iPhone 5s and anamorphic adapters, the Director/co-DP Sean Baker and co-DP Radium Cheung (who was shooting FX's The Americanswhen he got the call to shoot this film) were able to capture the film in a way that gave them maximum mobility, a unique look, and quite a bit more stealth than if they were using larger cameras. The anamorp...
From ASC magazine, here is a little bit more about the lighting used on the film, which was almost non-existent: For the 22-day shoot, Cheung brought only three battery-operated Rosco LitePads — 1’x1’, 6”x12” and 3”x12” — “just to be able to fill in and add some eyelight every now and then,” he says. Bounce material picked up at a 99-Cents Only Sto...
Here's more from that same ASC articleabout how they decided on the look for the film, which pops with energy the way its colorful characters do: It was during prep that Baker discovered another key component of the movie's look: its amped-up color. Again, this was a 180-degree turn. “The sort of films I make have this urban social-realist thing,” ...
While they utilized relatively inexpensive gear to shoot the film, they did not skimp on the sound gear. Veteran sound mixer Irin Strauss used the Sound Devices 664 mixer/recorder along with some other high-end stuff to capture the best audio possible. Here's a taste of what he used thanks to ProSound Web: In addition to his 664, Strauss used a Lec...
Sean recently spoke with the terrific Film Courage, and here are the first two videos in that series that go a little deeper into the conversation about shooting the film and what advantages the filmmakers had choosing the iPhone format: If you're wondering, no, this was not a marketing ploy on the part of the filmmakers, especially since they kept...
This film, like most movies, could have been shot on any number of cameras that could have fulfilled a similar purpose, but the filmmakers chose a format that allowed them to not only put the cameras anywhere they wanted, but also let them blend into busy city sidewalks and easily shoot inside vehicles. There are a number of cameras that can accomp...
- Joe Marine
Jan 28, 2015 · Tangerine, a breakout hit from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is full of surprises. There’s the subject matter: transgender prostitutes working in a not-so glamorous part of Hollywood.
Jul 6, 2015 · When the comedy “Tangerine” had its premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival, it was warmly embraced by critics. Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times that it was “beautifully...
- Mekado Murphy
Nov 8, 2015 · Director Sean Baker and co-star Mya Taylor on the making of their innovative, worthy awards contender Tangerine. Shot on an iPhone for a budget of $100,000 and starring...
Karren Karagulian, James Ransone, writer-director Sean Baker and Mya Taylor talk ‘Tangerine’ at the Variety Studio at Sundance.
Jul 9, 2015 · One of the sensations in this year's Sundance Film Festival was Sean Baker's film, "Tangerine," which is set in the Los Angeles subculture of transgender sex workers.
