It worked for this filmmaker. Until 2016, Hasan Oswald had been teaching English in Thailand and Spain. Then he started to fool around with a GoPro and iMovie. The next thing he knew, his short film had been tweeted by Stephen Fry, followed by NatGeo knocking on his proverbial door to join their crew. What did he do next? Something about this moment told Oswald he was ready to become a filmmaker. So he set out to learn everything he could about cameras, editing, and production from such fabled resources as YouTube and No Film School. Many harrowing hours of work and bi-weekly selling of his blood plasma later, he finished his first feature film Higher Love, a gut-wrenching, visually gripping documentary that won the Slamdance Grand Jury award and is now available to watch on all the major streaming platforms. Oswald sat down with No Film School to explain his process. No Film School: Why did you decide to make this film, and how did you meet the people in the story like Daryl and Nani? Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 10 December, 2020