On the eve of Day One, meet the department heads and craftspeople carrying ODIE through fifteen shoot days across Austin, from a veteran-turned-AD to a Bolivian script supervisor to a post team stretching from LA to Lisbon.

Three weeks out from principal photography, I can finally say it: Lester Platt is the Director of Photography on Odie. That sentence felt a long way off two weeks ago. Finding the right DP for a micro-budget feature is one of those problems that looks straightforward until you're actually inside it. You need someone who can move fast, read a location in thirty seconds, make decisions under pressure, and still care about every frame. You need someone whose visual instincts lin

He joins Odie with an impressive body of work across some of the most respected films of the past decade. His credits include editorial work on One Battle After Another, Dune: Part Two, Oppenheimer, Licorice Pizza, and Her, a run of projects that reflects both technical precision and strong storytelling instincts.