REED MORANO - Director / Cinematographer

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, director and cinematographer Reed Morano (THE HANDMAID’S TALE, I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW, MEADOWLAND) speaks with us in a career-spanning conversation. We learn how after being drafted into the position of family documentarian, Reed soon found herself drawn towards the world of filmmaking. Reed reflects on how she may or may not have gotten her first job as a cinematographer on Craigslist after film school and how shooting FROZEN RIVER changed her career. We discuss the types of projects Reed is approached for as a director and how the opportunity to tell a man’s story from her perspective drew her to direct I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW. Towards the end, we also discuss the noble folly of trying to save a script that just doesn’t work.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Philex, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:30.0	Philex is known for their LED color franels ranging from the smallest
0:35.4	philex Q3 to the largest philex Q10 and they set the gold standard in the
0:41.5	motion picture industry with precise color science, brightness, and
0:46.2	beam shaping. Philex recently launched a new LED color ellipsoidal called the Philex G3 which can make razor sharp cuts.
1:00.0	Today we're speaking with a cinematographer and director.
1:03.8	Her credits include Frozen River,
1:06.3	the Skeleton Twins, Rhythm Section,
1:08.6	and Handmaid's Tale.
1:10.6	We're pleased to welcome, Reed Marano with us today Reed. Thank you for doing us.
1:15.2	Welcome.
1:16.2	Thanks for having me. It's an honor.
1:19.7	We'd like to start with our normal question which is how did you get to where you are today?
1:28.4	Was this something that you always thought you wanted to do or did you take another path and then find this? What's your story?
1:35.0	I think I was you know there was a guide a little bit to where I ended up not a little bit for sure I think I find as a parent I'm putting
1:47.7	these things on to my kids that I want them that I wanted to do when I was young that I never got to do like you know I gave my
1:54.5	one son a drum set and the other one like oil paints and things like that and I
2:00.6	wonder if that's what my dad was doing with me,
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