William Eubank was born on November 15,1982 and is an American film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
27 Facts About William Eubank
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On his first feature film, Love, released in 2011, in addition to directorial and director of photography duties, Eubank served as production designer.
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William Eubank was born on November 15,1982 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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William Eubank's father, Carlyle Eubank II, is a fine art consultant, former Christie's representative, and adviser to the Office of Fine Arts at the State Department.
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William Eubank's mother, Patricia Reeder Eubank, is a children's book author and illustrator.
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The second of four siblings, William Eubank has one older sister and two younger brothers, and grew up in the Santa Ynez Valley, a noted wine-producing region north of Los Angeles.
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William Eubank grew up involved in Scouting and, like filmmakers Steven Spielberg and David Lynch, is an Eagle Scout.
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When William Eubank was young, he had an interesting experience with the verisimilitude of cinema.
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At the time that he first watched the 1974 film Chinatown, set in the year 1937, William Eubank was unaware that it was a period piece, assuming it to have been made contemporaneously in 1937.
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When he found out it had been made almost four decades after the era it depicted, William Eubank came to a realization about film's power.
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William Eubank began accepting jobs as a director or cinematographer at age 18.
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William Eubank was never hired to direct commercials but did release specs, as well as reels and camera tests.
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William Eubank was accepted into UCLA where he took cosmology classes that he would later cite as an influence on his films' ideas.
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William Eubank would become a seasoned Panavision employee, staying at the company for the next eight years.
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William Eubank attended the Sundance Film Festival five times representing Panavision, dreaming of attending as a director.
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William Eubank would meet with his Navy cinematographer grandfather, who lived in Salt Lake City, who insisted Eubank would someday attend with a film.
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William Eubank describes his time at Panavision as serving as his film school.
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William Eubank directed a number of music videos for the band, including the video for the single "Surrender".
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William Eubank spent four years working on the film, serving as the film's production designer and constructing both the International Space Station and Civil War-battleground sets for the film in his parents' backyard himself over the course of nine months.
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William Eubank based his building of the ISS set on NASA photography and skateboard ramp designs and his staging of the battle scenes on Civil War paintings.
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William Eubank collaborated on the script with fellow screenwriters David Frigerio and his brother, Carlyle Eubank.
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William Eubank described his main inspirations for the film as filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, and said that thematically the films Pi, Moon, and Cube were on his mind.
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For props, William Eubank worked with Legacy Effects to design custom pieces.
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William Eubank chose Brian Berdan, an editor who worked on David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, to edit the film.
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Berdan and William Eubank had collaborated before, Berdan having edited Love.
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In 2016, William Eubank began work on the 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment film Underwater.
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William Eubank cast Kristen Stewart and Game of Thrones-actress Jessica Henwick in the lead roles.