Ryan Booth
@ryanbooth
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Filmmaker. DGA Director. Commercials at division7 x SMUGGLER. debut feature, STAGES, in post. I’m always making something. One foot in front of the other.
NYC based Texan
Joined July 2008
when people talk about "hollywood" - this is what it actually means. world class craftspeople who bring decades worth of experience and talent to a singular set of images, sets, performances, and stories. most people never get to work with people at this caliber.
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this. filmmaking is collision with things outside of your control. the end.
I have such a hard time imagining ever being infatuated with A.I. as a writer, filmmaker, or viewer. Most of the magic is the alchemy that occurs when an authorial vision mingles with the needs & contingencies of other people, of material reality, of the medium, & of time itself.
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the big short guy is tweeting. defcon 3/4, i'd say...
Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.
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they're letting us play with the AI toys, but what they're actually building w/ all that compute is THIS:
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lost in the maze of making the check writers happy. bad place to be.
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the 14 year olds mostly disagree with your assesment of the record that just dropped. and sadly, that's all that actually matters in the (business) scheme of it.
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watched Eddington for the first time last night and.........woof. I might start smoking.
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give it a watch!
AMERICANA (2025). My first picture as a writer-director, available now on VOD via Amazon, iTunes, etc. I've taken things I love from my trailer park cultural heritage (violent westerns, Clint/Burt movies, country music, etc) & dragged them warts & all into the modern West.
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The spirits that remain after something magical’s happened, and how you can go back to a place where something amazing occurred, and the feeling’s still in the air. Happy Anniversary “Almost Famous”!
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congrats Tony!
Here are some shots that didn't make the final cut of AMERICANA but which I still really like. One of my favorite things about the movie is how it looks -- I dig the cozy analog texture of its look (as well as its sound). Hats off to our DP Nigel Bluck & colorist Alex Bickel.
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only thing i'll say - as someone who regularly gets hired by global brands and the biggest ad agencies... they aren't going to hire you, AI filmmaker guys. They have been quietly building internal produciton companies and they'll hire 25 year olds on salary to prompt it all.
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I started diversifying away from advertising a couple of years ago. It won't be how filmmakers make a living for long. We're going to see the "tentpole" model develop. You either get hired to direct the Marvel movie equivalent of global campaigns (with celebrity talent) or...this
AI has Changed Advertising Forever 👀 Especially with the latest Midjourney HD Update. New levels now playable...
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i swung for the fences and got the title designer for SNL, Avengers, Shogun, American Horror Story, and literally hundreds of others to create the title sequence for STAGES. Couldn't be happier. Had a very specific vision for it and Justin elevated it in really profound ways
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Someone needs to map a venn diagram of AI Filmmakers and Used to Be Church Video Guys. A distinctly "evangelical" feel to so much of the AI work for some reason...
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Name a movie where a minor character completely stole the show.
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I'm not interested in the knee-jerk conversations about AI. I'm interested in historical antecedents, in the ways that people can and will participate in upending current institutions (willingly/unwillingly), in the 10-20 years following an upheaval... https://t.co/Wg4hhJh8EQ
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heartbreaker of a festival rejection. didn't get the pass until the day before they announced competition films. we were in it till the very end. trying not to let it take the wind out of our sails, but, truly, it hurts. ok, back to finishing.
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Directed a commercial with Noah Lyles back in the lead up to Tokyo. We got 30 minutes total time. Since he was in active training, he could only come out of the blocks 3 times because the explosiveness of the exit carried a very real potential of injury. Ok great, how to cover…
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