If you want to make docs or learn about LA, Matt Yoka and Whirlybird are perfect for you. I first spoke to Matt back before Sundance 2020, in a very different world. He had finished his first feature, the documentary Whirlybird, that follows a family and the city of Los Angeles via archival footage of high-speed chases. It's a crazy story, not just the story of the film's subjects but the story of Matt making it. He started out with an interest in documenting the city of Los Angeles via archival footage, and it took him eventually to a chopper and a filmmaking couple that truly innovated news coverage. Matt has had to follow this thread patiently, and carefully, for years as it unspooled. But even as he was nearing a certain finish line, a world premiere at Sundance, new curveballs came his way... and the familiar Hollywood refrain of "hurry up and wait" was back at the fore. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 14 September, 2021