Director and star Olivia Wilde and Emmy Award®-winning cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra join us to discuss their creative collaboration on “The Invite” — a deceptively simple, four-character comedy set almost entirely in one apartment. But by shooting on 35mm film, and using creative framing, blocking, lenses, and carefully chosen camera movements, Wilde and Newport-Berra created a visual language to reveal the evolving (and devolving) relationships between the characters.

“There's something about the film running through the camera that changes the weather in the room. Everybody, I think, kind of snaps to... I think a lot of people forego film in comedies these days because they assume we won't be able to improvise, we won't be able to kind of 'discover it.' But that's not true. It actually makes people work a little bit faster and harder in finding the magic moments in the scenes. The stakes rise, and then everybody kind of elevates all together.”

—Olivia Wilde, Director and Actor, “The Invite”

Be sure to check out The Invite, now streaming on HBO Max in Dolby Vision®.

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