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Director

Quinn Bender

Bio

Quinn Bender is an award-winning photojournalist and reporter, now contributing full-time to MovieSet with original, behind-the-scenes content. With more than 10 years of experience in writing, photography and videography, his work has appeared in national dailies and magazines, including The Globe and Mail and National Post, and major broadcasters like CTV, CNN and CBS. Quinn's arrival at MovieSet reconnects him with CEO Colleen Nystedt, with whom he served as Director of Creative Affairs in her previous enterprise, New City Films. Quinn now joins the MovieSet team as Content Director, a reporter-at-large.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.