Chris O'Falt
Executive Editor, Crafts & Special Projects
Chris O'Falt runs IndieWire’s Film & TV Craft department and hosts the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. Previously, he covered the indie and doc film beat for The Hollywood Reporter. When he’s not writing about the innovation of today’s leading filmmakers, Chris is helping train the next (and hopefully more diverse) generation of filmmakers through a non-profit he co-founded in NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses. Follow @cofalt.
Latest by Chris O'Falt
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From "Amélie" to "Zodiac," IndieWire ranks the 60 films with the best cinematography of the last two decades.
From "Avatar" to "The Lord of the Rings," these Oscar winners' CGI and motion capture to define 21st-century visual storytelling.
Exclusive Images: “Moonlight” colorist Alex Bickel traverses the texture and looks of the multiverse.
The cinematography, sound, music, and VFX that created Jordan Peele's terror in the sky was the best Hollywood craft of 2022. So why was it ignored?
Toolkit Ep 190: Laura Poitras and editor Amy Foote on how they avoided biography in their portrait of Nan Goldin’s life, art, and activism.
Watch how the writing, casting, and score deepened the complexities of and the questions surrounding one of the modern true crime genre's defining cases.
Toolkit Ep 187: Director Daniel Roher discusses the thrilling behind-the-scenes filming of the man Putin's Kremlin tried to assassinate.
Director Shaunak Sen goes inside how he found and created the most innovative visual language of any film this year.
The great comedy director behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Bros" tells IndieWire how he knew Billy Eichner was a movie star.
From "Euphoria" to "Atlanta" and "Loki" to "Station Eleven," 15 directors of photography tell IndieWire about the equipment they chose for their Emmy-nominated series — and, more importantly, why they chose it.
