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Learning About Yourself through Collaboration with Cinematographer Cailin Yatsko | Episode 2

1h 5m · Cause of Craft: Why We Create · 16 Aug 07:45

Cinematographer Cailin Yatsko joins the show to discuss her journey into filmmaking, the perks of learning on the job, and how collaboration can teach you something about yourself. Timestamps and full transcript below.

Links:

Cailin’s website: www.cailinyatsko.com

Cailin’s Instagram: @cailinyatsko

Bicephaly Pictures: www.bicephalypictures.com

Bicephaly Pictures Instagram: @bicephaly

Days of Gray:

Trailer

iTunes | Amazon

Website: www.daysofgray.com

Instagram: @daysofgray

Short History of the Long Road:

Trailer

iTunes | Amazon

Website: www.shorthistorylongroad.com

Instagram: @shorthistorylongroad

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Topics Cover With Timestamps:

Intro

Cailin’s Early Interest in Filmmaking

Undergrad and the Value in a Broad Education

Business Classes and Learning on the Job

Inexperience Can Be Valuable in Just Starting Out

Learning from Other Mediums like Books

Film School

Meeting Ani Simon-Kennedy

Setting the Goal of Making Features

Cailin and Ani’s Creative Process

Collaboration in Filmmaking

Learning About Yourself Through Collaboration

Setting New Challenges for Yourself

The Helpfulness of Restrictions

Releasing During a Pandemic

How to Watch Cailin’s Films

Outro

About Cailin Yatsko: Originally from Arkansas, Cailin Yatsko is a New York City-based narrative and documentary cinematographer. In 2011, she partnered with director Ani Simon-Kennedy to form Bicephaly Pictures, one of just a few female production companies in NYC - producing narrative films, music videos, web series, and commercials. Her commercial cinematography includes award-winning branded and editorial content for clients such as Google, Intel, Condé Nast, Colgate, The New Yorker, The Fader, Vice, and many others in her nine years working in the industry. With director Ani Simon-Kennedy, they have collaborated on two narrative features: Days of Gray and The Short History of the Long Road, which premiered in US Narrative Competition at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and released by FilmRise. She also shot with director Cynthia Lowen (Bully) for the feature documentary Netizens, exposing the proliferation of cyber harassment facing women (2018 Tribeca Film Festival).

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