An interview with Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, the filmmakers behind your next Netflix obsession. Published November 20, Interviews , Movies By Sarah Foulkes Disclaimer When you purchase through affiliate links on our site, we may earn a commission. Cam premiered this summer at Fantasia Film Festival and is hitting local browsers November 16th via Netflix. As she struggles to regain her online identity, she faces stigma and derision from her family, the police and even the site itself.
How you guys came to work together. You guys were friends from high school, right? IM: Yeah, we met in high school. Even just helping each other out with our college essays and things like that. I studied Russian and Italian literature and I focused on futurism and the avant-garde.
So the world of writing was not foreign to me. It was interesting seeing Cam at Fantasia because I was seeing it along with so many screenlife films, like Searching and Unfriended.
Was there ever a discussion about setting it entirely on a computer screen? DG: Ultimately I think that the ground that Timor and the other filmmakers that have worked with him on the screenlife films have broken is really important.
Because I think they really did an amazing job of cracking the question of like, how do we make movies about living online? How do we represent that cinematically, how do we think about branding, how do we think about frames in frames? And what Cam was about from day one was the contrast in juxtaposition of the digital experience with the real experience.
