5 Reasons Why Filmmakers Need To Start Thinking About Virtual Production — Keith Sutliff

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3 min readJan 15, 2024

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Film Courage: How did you first hear about virtual production?

Film Director/Producer/Writer/Owner of Sutliff Studios — Virtual Productions, Keith Sutliff: Virtual production really became big and known from the Mandalorian TV show from Disney. That’s kind of like where I got a taste of it and heard about it, in 2019 around Covid (maybe 2020). That’s when I first started extensively researching it and saw the power and the capabilities and all the things that can be done that can benefit and help people and filmmakers and companies with filming for whatever they’re trying to shoot (whatever project).

Film Courage: How many movies or TV shows can you name right now that you feel use virtual production?

Keith: There’s a lot, The Mandalorian. I mentioned one, it’s a space movie with Tom Cruise, I don’t remember off my head. The Lion King used it. There’ve been a lot of commercials that have used it for stuff, airplane stuff, car process stuff, commercials for Samsung or cell phone…

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