4 Types Of Directing Every Director Should Know - Pete Chatmon

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With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed over 50 episodes of television including HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Love Life, Netflix’s You, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Black-ish, Starz’ Blindspotting, FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest. He is in development on The Education of Matt Barnes with Showtime, for which he will direct the pilot and serve as executive producer and is currently co-executive producer and producing director on Reasonable Doubt, the first project to be produced via Hulu’s Onyx Collective. His debut feature as writer/director, Premium, starred Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper, and premiered on Showtime after a limited theatrical run. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed 761st, a documentary on the first Black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Andre Braugher. Through TheDirector, his Digital Studio, he has directed, shot, and edited content for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 brands. Chatmon’s career began in 2001 with the Sundance selection of his NYU thesis film, 3D, starring Kerry Washington. His most recent short film, BlackCard, premiered on HBO, and his narrative podcast, Wednesday Morning, engaged voters around the 2020 election. His podcast, Let’s Shoot! with Pete Chatmon is available on YouTube, iTunes, and all podcast platforms. In January 2022 his book, Transitions: A Director’s Journey + Motivational Handbook was released by Michael Wiese Productions.

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[SDW]

“Which lens is your favorite? The one that gets the shot.” Great life lesson.

[AstralMarmot]

Chatmon's got that realness to him of someone who looked at the dilemma of "commercial or art?" and just said nah and built their own path through. Genuinely makes me happy every time I see an artist whose innate pragmatism is wedded to their art and not in conflict with it. It reminds me whatever artistic traps I feel stuck between are probably a lot less intractable I think

[tieuellegacy]

As you will read in Pete’s book, he’s awesome at preparation. He knows the ins and outs of weaving types of projects together. He shows how he navigated each during difficult times.

[albertabramson]

When is it okay to direct through a screenplay? What are the limits of direction that a screenplay should have?

[haniesnoonaiselsa]

Does anyone know which countries in Europe other than the UK is best for studying film? But like where they offer the studies in English of course