TheWrap magazine
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Every ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Costume Was Made in Real Life Before Being Scanned Into a Computer
TheWrap Magazine: Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott explains why it was crucial to create every piece of clothing and jewelry in physical form
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ VFX Team Reveals the Secret to One of the Film’s Most Eye-Popping Shots
TheWrap Magazine: The “Avatar” sequel’s VFX team explains how live-action photography was used in a shot of Jake Sully gripping a leather strap
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How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Composer Simon Franglen Honored the Late James Horner
TheWrap magazine: “There’s no reason that a reef tribe would have the same sound (as a jungle tribe),” the composer says
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Sound Mixer Created Live Sound Design for the Actors During Mo-Cap Filming
TheWrap magazine: “A lot of what we did, nobody had done before,” Julian Howarth says
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How Canada’s Animated Doc ‘Eternal Spring’ Aims to Follow ‘Flee’ Path to Oscar Glory
TheWrap magazine: “I wasn’t concerned that people would think, ‘Someone did an animated doc last year,’” says director Jason Loftus
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How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Composer Created Those ‘Disturbing’ Sounds of War
TheWrap magazine: Volker Bertelmann says he used drums and harmoniums to make military sounds like shooting bullets
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How ‘Memory Box’ Turns a Stack of Teenage Notebooks Into a Movie
TheWrap magazine: “I had this strange personal archive, and we thought it would be interesting to do something with it,” says co-director Joana Hadjithomas
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Irish Oscar Entry ‘The Quiet Girl’ Has a Secret Weapon: Silence
TheWrap magazine: “The different types of silence in the film are reflective of Irish society and certain aspects of our past,” says director Colm Bairéad
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‘Joyland’ Director Saim Sadiq on How Honesty Grounds His Queer Love Story
TheWrap magazine: For his debut feature, which was momentarily banned in its native Pakistan, Sadiq followed the “only barometer in cinema”
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‘Last Flight Home’ Director on Filming Her Father Before His Medically Assisted Death
TheWrap magazine: Ondi Timoner says turning on the cameras during her dad’s final days “suddenly became so valuable to everyone”
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‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher: Imprisoned Russian Opposition Leader’s Impact on History is Unfulfilled
TheWrap magazine: “It’s very, very sad to know that (Alexei Navalny) has never seen our film and he may never see our film,” the filmmaker says
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‘Good Night Oppy’ Director on Making a Doc for Steven Spielberg: ‘I Wanted to Make Him Proud’
TheWrap Magazine: “Making a film like this, that’s very Spielberg in its branding, I felt intimidated,” Ryan White says of his movie about two Mars rovers
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How ‘Descendant’ Searched for a Slave Ship and a Community’s History
TheWrap magazine: “My mom talked about it like a ghost story or myth — it wasn’t something you talked about out loud,” says director Margaret Brown
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‘Return to Seoul’ Director Davy Chou on What It Means to Live Between Two Cultures
TheWrap magazine: Chou’s film, about a woman struggling to figure out who she is and where she belongs, is Cambodia’s Oscar entry
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How ‘Fire of Love’ Doc Captured the Larger-Than-Life Spirit of Famed Volcanologists
TheWrap magazine: “The more we learned, and the more imagery we saw, we were just blown away — forgive the pun,” says director Sara Dosa
