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This Oscar-Winning DP Shares the Secret to Great Documentaries (opens in new tab)

"Less direction is better in pretty much everything."This is insight from award-winning filmmaker Matt Porwoll, DP of All the Empty Rooms, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 98th Academy Awards. The film, directed by Joshua Seftel and streaming on Netflix, follows CBS correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they document the untouched bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.In a recent interview with Early Light Media, Porwoll breaks down his proces...

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