To celebrate the art of the close-up, MobileMovieMaking ran an Instagram competition. The challenge was to post a video that included at least one knockout close-up. Coming from eight countries, entries represented a wide variety of genres including documentary, music video,  travelogue, and fashion. The winning video was “Vacant,” a horror trailer directed by Oliver…

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Apple’s App Store offers more than four million apps. Most of them fit in the “lifestyle apps” category, promising to make our lives better, easier, smarter, or just more fun. In the Socratic tradition of posing obvious but profound questions, Oliver Richard’s “Thirsty?” invites us to step back and ask: “Are we better off for…

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There are many qualities you need to be a successful filmmaker. These include recognizing a good story, scouting interesting locations, and solving the problems that almost always arise during the production. Oliver Richards—an English filmmaker residing in Cork, Ireland—adds another element: flexibility. In the interview below Richards explains how that personality trait helped him create a flying saucer for his…

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