Hi,

I am simply amazed by your work. Ever since I discovered the existence of 35mm adapters, which was through your work I gained a lot of confidence in moving from still to moving images.

I moved to California 6 years ago from Europe. Have spent some tome in London with my wife prior to coming to the US, so Piccadilly made us very emotional. What a look, by the way.

OK, I have a question to you, have you ever attended any academical course in cinematography? And something completely different: how does the the final HD material shot trough letus look when printed on stock film for distribution? Pretty soon it will not be a problem anyways because most of theaters (cinemas) around are switching to digital projection (oh I wept…), but I am curious if had done that with HD and 35 mm adapter.

I appreciate your time. Would love to meet you when I am in Europe this coming Spring.

Best and once again, “respect!”

Slav

Brief but entertaining biography. Short and sweet. It’s OK, everyone has their moments of third person speak.

Anyway, it’s nice to see blogs and personal updates from someone as dedicated to video/film craft as you. It gives everyone hope that the world, and the film world for that matter, is not such an alienating place at all times.

All the best,

Jon

Philip,
when are you going to get a hold of the Sony PDW F800?
bob

Hello from Tokyo,

thanks for this absolutely wonderful movie: “Alone in Tokyo”. I have seen this film and only thought: “Tadaima” (You say Tadaima in Japan when you coming home).

If you will come to Tokyo again someday, it would be my pleasure to pay for the dinner.

Domo arigato gozaimashita

Oliver

Hi Philip

I recently got in touch with your work, and I simply love it.

Film and photography have been my two passions for a long time now.
Everything about it attracts me to learn about it, more and more.

I had to choose what to study after I finished High School, so I decided to follow the way of Filmmaking.But, I’m worried. I’m not that of a good student, I don’t like what school offers me and puts me up to tasks I really hate to complete.

I want to do this by myself, without academical courses. But also affraid that there won’t be any employer in the future who will recruit someone just by its passion and has no diploma in his pockets.

I see you did it all by yourself. Did you encounter many obstacles into making carreer as filmmaker?

Thanks for taking time to read.
Hope to hear from you and see more of your work in the future.

Friendly regards,

Nico

Phillip,

Let me start out by saying how much I love the videos that you produce. They have so much emotion, passion — it shows that the person making the videos truly pours their heart into what they are doing!

I aspire to do something like yourself, to well, go places that many people have not had the opportunity to go to, and to tell a story — a story about the people there, the things they do, and the world that we live in. Needless to say, I desire to go into the film industry with no class experience — I think that you can learn all you need from the internet, and these things called books that so many of my peers seem to have thrown to the wayside.

Since you’ve never studied film, did you learn everything from good ‘ol experience and hands-on training?

I just saw your reply to Nico’s post, I think i’ll search around for your blog post! I’m curious to see what advice you can give about this subject!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read these posts and reply! It means a lot to the ‘aspiring filmmaker’ to get advice from a guy living the dream.

Jonathan Seawright