Noah Kadner was born in New Jersey and raised in the American Southwest. He graduated from the MFA program in film production at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Noah runs Ternura Corporation, a film, television, production, and postproduction company. He made his feature-film directing debut with Formosa, a 1950s-style romantic comedy shot on location in Albuquerque and Los Angeles.

In 2006, Noah cofounded Call Box (www.callboxlive.com), an interactive training company. Call Box produces and distributes a successful line of courses on DVD for independent filmmakers and broadcast producers. He also administers several online moviemaking and postproduction forums, including 2-pop, Creative Cow, and DVXuser. Noah writes for industry magazines such as Videography, HD Video Pro, and American Cinematographer, as well as for various industry Web sites, including Apple.com. Noah wrote the American Cinematographer cover stories for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In 2007, Noah’s wife and her partner, Rune Hansen, acquired two RED cameras for their company Simplemente in Mexico City. Since then, Noah has worked with the cameras on many different projects, mastering hands-on production techniques and postproduction workflows.