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MTh Directors, Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi joined forces for Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ to transform this pop star into Queen of the Jungle. * What challenges on set did you face throughout the development of the video?Our vision was always to make the biggest, best jungle video we possibly could, limitations be damned. We as a whole group just took on the challenge of getting all of it - a complete Woman vs. Tiger storyline, a “Woman Meets Monkey” friendship … not to mention a bunch of action that involved swinging from vines, standing on waterfalls, animated cave paintings and working with all of those animals … and just the “Katy being Katy” scenes in which she paints the elephant’s toenails, brushes the alligator’s teeth, and all those other “Glamazon” moments we loved. See? It’s hard to even summarize it in a quick way - so imagine trying to shoot all this complex stuff in a couple of days.

by Michael Valinsky After initially meeting at Manhattan Edit Workshop's Inside the Cutting Room event, we followed up to talk further with Emmy-Award winning editor Arielle Amsalem at Third Rail Coffee in Greenwich Village, NYC. One of the most promising up-and-coming documentary editors today, we had the opportunity to ask her a whole range of questions. Here's our fully-caffeinated interview.

Acclaimed composer Philip White has a long list of notable works including The Loud House Movie which earned a 2021 HMMA nomination for Best Original Score for an Animated Film, Jexi, A Madea Family Funeral, Nobody’s Fool, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, and Alex & Me. He is excited for the release of his upcoming project The Winchesters, a Supernatural spinoff that premieres on the CW on Oct. 11th.

The production industry is always evolving, from new ways to film to breakthroughs in production technology, with many women spearheading initiatives that impact the industry and set changes in motion. For the second year in a row, we are thrilled to present a few of our favorite "Women to Watch" — women who are constantly inspiring and reaching new ceilings in an industry that was previously male-dominated.