
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America
Spike Lee made She's Gotta Have It (1986) independently for under $200,000 and Do the Right Thing (1989), both landmarks in American independent cinema that centered Black American experience in the mainstream for the first time at that scale. He has maintained an independent production base in Brooklyn throughout his career. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman (2018).
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The Arriflex 35 BL (Blimped Lightweight), introduced in 1972, was the first self-blimped 35mm motion picture camera quiet enough for sync-sound shooting without an external housing. Its mirror-reflex viewfinder and rugged construction made it a standard tool in European and independent filmmaking from the 1970s onward.
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