William Eubank
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William Eubank on the set of Love
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| Born |
William C. Eubank November 15, 1982 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Hollywood Hills, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Will Eubank |
| Alma mater |
UCLA (dropped out in 2003) Brooks Institute |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Organization | Directors Guild of America |
| Agent | Creative Artists Agency |
| Notable work |
Love The Signal |
| Home town | Santa Ynez Valley, California, U.S. |
| Website | www |
William Eubank (born November 15, 1982) is an American film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. His 2014 feature film The Signal premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters by Focus Features on June 13, 2014. For his 2011 feature film Love, in addition to directorial and director of photography duties, Eubank also served as production designer.
Eubank began working as a director at age 18, creating commercials for Mikasa and other clients. He attended UCLA where he took cosmology classes that he would later cite as an influence on his films' ideas. He worked at Panavision in Woodland Hills, California for eight years, as a camera technician and digital imaging technician. Eubank attended the Sundance Film Festival five times representing Panavision, dreaming of attending as a director. He would meet with his grandfather, a former Navy cinematographer, who lived in Salt Lake City who insisted Eubank would someday attend with a film.
A number of Eubank's works feature the use of in-camera speed 'ramping'. Shots of this style were featured in his Mikasa spots and in reels for Honda, Adidas, Skullcandy, and others. Eubank was later hired by the UFC to film fights in this style.
In 2007, Eubank was approached by Tom DeLonge to create material for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. Eubank directed a number of music videos for the band, including the video for the single "Surrender". Eubank also wrote and directed the feature film Love, commissioned and produced by Angels & Airwaves. The film was inspired by Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line and asks according to Eubank "[W]hat are we, as human beings, going to leave behind when we cease to exist one day...?" The emotion the film is titled after, 'love', is defined by Eubank as "The ability to feel and find complete communication without words or touch…the ability to find an understanding on nothing but a sense…"
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