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When the Going Gets Tough, Filipe DeAndrade Keeps Shooting

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If you love something enough, you’ll suffer for it—that’s what Filipe DeAndrade took away from AFS. But of course, when it’s filmmaking you love, it makes suffering through brutal conditions or lack of sleep simply part of the love affair. “If you don’t love it, you’re not going to be able to do it,” he says.…
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Moments That Make a Story

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Of all the things I learned from noted adventure filmmaker Michael Brown, the thing that has stuck with me the most is to make sure you watch all your footage. It might not sound like a revelation in storytelling, but as I set out to make four films over the course of the GoPro Mountain Games with the Adventure Film School last week it became an essential lesson.…
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Catching The Storytelling Bug With Alex Williams

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All the expensive equipment in the world can’t make a compelling film without a good story. “You can have the best lighting and sound equipment, but if you don’t have true stories, you just have pretty imagery, and it’s kind of dead in the water,” says Alex Williams, owner of Videotrekker Films.…
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Allison Otto Masters The Art Of Capturing Character

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Anyone who saw the film “Keeper of the Mountains” at a film festival last year knows one thing: A great character can make a great film. Allison Otto, the film’s director—and AFS alumni—featured Elizabeth Hawley, a 90-year-old Himalayan mountaineering archivist in Nepal.…
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