Planning a holiday can be extremely frustrating for almost everyone. This is especially true for people who love traveling but aren’t very good at planning everything from the itinerary to booking the hotels and flights.
The Filmmaker’s Ultimate Backpacking Checklist (2026) How to Pack for the Backcountry Without Sacrificing Your Cinematic Vision The first time I tried hiking the Juan de Fuca with a cinema rig, I made it forty minutes before my right shoulder went numb. The pack—a hand-me-down Osprey loaded with a Panasonic GH5, three primes, a carbon … Read more
The Hook 3:47 AM call time. Victoria, BC. February. The set for Maid smelled like sawdust and stale coffee, and the BC dampness had already soaked through my rain shell—the cheap one I bought thinking “it’s just drizzle.” By hour six, I had a headache sharp enough to ruin my focus, and by hour nine, … Read more
The 2 AM Reality Check LAX Terminal 1, 2 AM. My flight from Sundance just landed three hours late. I’ve got two Pelican cases stuffed with camera gear from Going Home post, a backpack overflowing with festival swag, and exactly zero energy left to deal with LA traffic. The Uber line snakes around the terminal. … Read more
The Moment I Wanted to Quit (And Kept Filming Anyway) I was standing in the middle of a crowded market in Lisbon, camera in hand, and completely paralyzed. Not because anything was wrong. Because everything was right — color, chaos, light — and I had no idea how to film it without looking like a … Read more
The Footage I Lost in Victoria (And What It Taught Me About Travel) Three years back, I’m standing in Victoria, BC with my Sony and a dead backup drive. The entire first week of footage—gone. Not corrupted. Just… gone. I’d been so focused on getting the perfect shots of the Inner Harbour at golden hour … Read more