This year’s class of 10 Artisans to Watch discussed the importance of collaboration.

Key artisans working on 2025’s leading awards contenders spoke about their creative journeys on their projects and how collaboration influenced their work on set.

During the panel led by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, “Sinners, cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw talked about collaborating with Ryan Coogler on his supernatural thriller and the world building of 1930s Mississippi. “With Ryan [Coogler], he’s trying to create a feeling that he had when he was younger, and he would go to the movies and you would sit in a dark room and have an experience that you feel like in your gut,” said Arkapaw. “In trying to put that on the screen, it had to be textured. It had to be something that

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