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by Terretta 947 days ago
Yes! As a film student you'll recognize, "zoom with your feet". Or maybe by film you meant moving pictures, or "movies" for short (ahem).

So, to underline the "position yourself farther from it" part of my post where to go from a wide 4K to a cropped 4K the important part was moving back, and underline the distance from the camera part of your post, readers may enjoy this movie on the "dolly zoom":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tod2qZnKZEQ

The face distortion bit starts about 1m15s in.

TL;DR: To fix your face, zoom out with your feet! Then zoom in with your lens, or crop back in, to frame.

(All that said, if you're shooting faces, aka a portrait, consider a "portrait lens", and for this you're back in focal length talk. Pick 85mm focal length or longer, though I'm partial to 105mm up to 135mm myself.)