Documentary filmmakers are a crazy lot. Jake Oelman traipsed through the jungles of Colombia as a one-man-crew following his father, macro photographer Robert Oelman, on a quest to discover the most outrageous flying, hopping, stinging, and exquisite insects of the Amazon. Learning to See magnifies a world we’ve never seen before, and through Jake’s portrait of his father, makes us care about that world’s continued existence in the face of humankind's increasingly harmful influence.
No Film School sat down with Jake and producer Jerry Aronson (Chasing Ice) to talk about the making of the macro doc.
"Editing documentaries is like writing and editing at the same time."
NFS: The main subject of the film, Robert, is also your father, so you've know him all your life. When did you know he would make a great subject for a documentary?
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