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When experienced Producer/Director Skye Fitzgerald landed in the hospital after suffering a broken hand from a bicycle race outside of Portland, Oregon, his visit ended with much more than just a recovery…What was first a consultation with orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Hisham Bismar, also a highly sought-after hand specialist, soon became a 45-minute conversation, exchange of ideas and opinions about the horrific realities of the Syrian Civil War.

Composer Panu Aaltio has composed music for 30 feature films, multiple TV series, video games, as well as a full-length ballet for the Finnish National Opera. His emotional nature of film scores has made Panu the only composer to have won the Best Documentary Score award from the International Film Music Critics Association for each film in a trilogy. First with the Tale of a Forest in 2013, then Tale of a Lake in 2017, for which Panu also received Finland’s equivalent of the Oscar, and finally in 2022 Tale of the Sleeping Giants.

Ask a Filmmaker of any stature, and they will tell you that they never have enough resources (time, budget, equipment), to devote to any project. It’s certainly true for me shooting indie (read: low budget) features. However, for better or worse, it is an area of the business I’ve come to be known for, movies with budgets between half a million and five million dollars. Over a 40+ year cinematography career, I’ve learned a lot of tricks to squeeze maximum production value and good looking images out of meager budgets, making dimes look like dollars on the screen.