Director Carey Williams and DP Mike Dallatorre on directing and shooting the film Emergency

Emergency is a comedy about three men of color- college roommates
Kunle, Sean, and Carlos, who are about to go out for an epic night
of spring break partying when they find a white girl has
accidentally stumbled in and passed out on their apartment floor.
Concerned about what might happen if they call the police, they
decide to take the semi-conscious girl in their van and drive
around town for hours, trying to find a safe place to leave her and
not get in trouble. Meanwhile, the girl's friends chase after the
men as they track her phone and call the police. Director Carey
Williams and cinematographer Mike Dallatorre met about twenty years
ago and have worked together on several music videos and other
projects. Emergency began as a 2018 short film directed by Carey
and shot by Mike. The short won a jury award at the Sundance Film
Festival and Best Narrative Short at SXSW. Carey and writer KD
Dávila worked together to expand the story into a feature, and
Temple Hill Entertainment and Amazon Studios produced it before the
feature premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. As two men of
color themselves, both Carey and Mike have had personal experience
with being profiled and detained by police officers. In Emergency,
once the roommates are caught and detained by the police, Mike and
Carey decided to make the film feel extremely terrifying, shooting
the encounter in slow motion and selectively out of focus. Mike
deliberately kept the police officer's faces out of frame so that
they feel like scary monsters in a horror movie. Having worked
together for so long, Mike and Carey had an easy shorthand way of
talking through the shotlist and visual feel for each scene, and
put together a look book as a reference. Emergency is Carey's
biggest movie to date, while Mike brought a lot of experience with
seven other features under his belt. As a visual director, Carey
always wanted to know what the movie would look like and feel like.
The most important piece of the movie for Carey was to show the
relationship between the friends, their emotions and vulnerability
as they go through a crisis together. Emergency is currently
playing in theaters and on Amazon Prime. Carey Williams
http://cdubfilms.com/ Instagram @cdubig Mike Dallatorre:
https://www.michaeldallatorre.com/ Instagram @dp_miked Hear our
previous Cinepod interview with Mike Dallatorre:
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