“Argentinean cinematographer and filmmaker, Guido Pezz recently shot and directed “An Island Off An Island”. For the past 20 years, Jenene and John have carried on a simple life together on Bruny; an island off the island of Tasmania, located at the bottom of Australia. This film is an intimate portrait about life away from the distractions of the outside world.”

"I have always been fascinated by people who live on islands, isolated away from the world. When you arrive here, you can’t help but ask yourself, is this a place I’d like to live? After you have been there a couple of days, you’re constantly thinking this in the back of your mind. Shooting at a place like Bruny Island is difficult to explain. There were no epic mountains or rocky outcrops to focus on. Bruny Island is more about what it feels like to live there; and so that is what I was trying to capture. I wanted to translate the essence of living there as authentically as I could.”

British cinematographer, Ben Davis BSC., is well known for his work on Hollywood blockbusters and beautifully crafted independent films. Ben recently shot Banshees of Inisherin on Achill Island off the coast of Ireland. Ben talks about his work with Martin McDonagh and why they chose to use a Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K as one of the production cameras.

“Martin’s parents both come from this part of Ireland. And so I really think he was keen to present a vision of Ireland that offset some of the drama that was going on in the film. He wanted the scenery to be amazingly beautiful in order to explain why some of the locals wanted to stay on the island, and why others were intent on leaving.”

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‘Of Two Lands’ founder, Florent Piovesan is a French Australian filmmaker currently based in the French Alps. As part of his popular YouTube Channel, he has nearly two hundred videos that showcase all things filmmaking alongside of his travels. ‘Our Perfect Day’ is a 240fps 4K resolution camera test, shot on Blackmagic’s URSA Mini Pro 12K using a Sigma Art lens.

“I had the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K as loan for shooting some 12K and 8K 120fps footage. I shoot most of my commercial and documentary work on a Blackmagic Cinema Pocket Camera 6K, so I was pretty intrigued to see what double the resolution would give you.”

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Matteo Bertoli is an Italian filmmaker based in Lisbon, Portugal, who has lived in the US for six years. Matteo is a well known Youtuber with over 56 thousand subscribers and the co-founder of Buttery Films and Buttery LUTS with Raffy Vesco. Matteo talks about a spec commercial he shot on the URSA Mini Pro 12K.

“For a while now, I’ve been wanting to show what can be done with the URSA Mini Pro 12K. The community of filmmakers who follow me on YouTube, are always interested in what you can do when shooting without much equipment and with a very small crew.”

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Austrian based agency and production company, Freystil, created the latest Austrian Kia car commercial with the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K. Founder and CEO, Michael Frey talks about why he has founded his company on the URSA Mini Pro 12K and BMPCC 6K cameras.

“I started my company three years ago with zero budget. I had nothing. My goal was to make high-quality content affordable and to give Austrian customers the most flexible content bundles we could. I wanted to create a completely different type of production and post production facility, here in Austria.”

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Seattle-based director and cinematographer, Note Suwanchote recently did a 12K and 8K camera test in Blackmagic RAW, using the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K. Note talks about the image quality for the new 12K sensor and how easy it is to shoot using Blackmagic’s RAW codec.

“There is a giant rock formation at Cannon Beach in Oregon, called ‘Haystack’ where they shot, ‘The Goonies’, ‘Twilight’ and ‘Point Break’. It’s one of those places I have always wanted to shoot. The other location is Rialto Beach in Washington, which is about a four hour drive north of me. I had seen beautiful photographs of both locations and I thought they would be perfect for shooting test footage with the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K.”

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Cinematographer Vance Burberry recently shot the launch film for James Perse’s Robertson Boulevard flagship store in Beverly Hills. Vance talks about shooting this architecturally inspired black & white commercial for this Californian fashion and homewares designer.

“As it happens, Julian Metter was directing this cool commercial for James Perse. Both Julian and James wanted something really stylish in black & white, a bit like an architectural piece. James Perse is very creative with great artistic sensibilities. He is also heavily into his architecture, so keeping the architectural integrity of his flagship store was very important.”

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Cinematographer, John Brawley recently conducted the first tests on the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K camera. John talks about using this camera for the first time, while he was shooting the episodic drama ‘The Great’. He then explains the background to ’Twelve’, which was his 4K, 8K and 12K camera tests on Zeiss Supreme lenses.

“I guess my initial reaction when I first saw this camera, was wow ‑ 12K!”

“I understand for a lot of cinematographers the starting point will be, why do I need to shoot in 12K? And, that the pursuit of more pixels alone, does nothing to improve the quality of the pixel pipeline. From what I can see, the way Blackmagic started on this problem, was to firstly understand how to make better pixels and then to see how many pixels you could get from their new sensor architecture! What they’ve discovered is by increasing pixel density they could actually get rid of those aliasing and structural issues we’ve been suffering.”

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Cinematographer, Vance Burberry teamed up with Cristina Piemonte to create this cool piece for Seniesa “Superbad” Estrada, WBA Flyweight World Champion and currently one of the biggest names in women’s boxing. Vance Burberry is a highly notable cinematographer with a career spanning thirty years shooting music videos, commercials, underwater work and feature films.

"The boxing gym we shot at was in East Los Angeles. Seniesa has since become the WBA Flyweight World Champion and this was the very same gym that she had trained in for the last two and a half months."

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