William Eubank

William Campbell Eubank born November 15 1982 is an American director screenwriter and cinematographer He made his feature directorial debut with the scifi drama Love 2011 and went on to direct the scifi mystery The Signal 2014 the disaster thriller Underwater 2020 the supernatural horror Paranormal Activity Next of Kin 2021 and the military action adventure Land of Bad 2024 Like filmmakers Steven Spielberg and David Lynch Eubank is an Eagle Scout When Eubank was young he had an interesting experience with the verisimilitude of cinema At the time that he first watched the 1974 film Chinatown set in the year 1937 Eubank was unaware that it was a period piece assuming it to have been made contemporaneously in 1937 When he found out it had been made almost four decades after the era it depicted Eubank came to a realization about films power Eubank drew significant inspiration from his grandfather a US Navy cinematographer From the stories he would tell one involved operating a camera while flying underneath the Golden Gate Bridge Eubank decided he wanted to either serve in the US Navy or pursue a career in film Admitted to Annapolis at the last minute before reporting to campus Eubank decided to instead take his shot at the arts He began working at Panavision Woodland Hills as a camera repair technician and digital imaging technician and describes his eight years at Panavision as serving as his film school Eubank credits the companys kindness to him as being essential to his development as an artist saying I owe my entire career to those guys