Insights from the Cinematic World: peter landesman

Concussion

Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true story of an American Nigerian immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known.

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Production designer Bruce Curtis recreated the physical world of Texas in 1963 with the assistance of costume designer Kari Perkins, makeup artists Randy Westgate and Jacenda Burkett, hair stylists Bridget Cook and Missy Forney, and prop master Scott Reeder.

Parkland

An extraordinary new retelling of the JFK assassination, Parkland takes a closer look at one of the 20th century’s most examined events in a unique new light. The film takes a question that defined a generation of Americans—“Where were you when John F. Kennedy was assassinated?”

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