Filmmaker Videos

ISN'T SHE?...

2009-10-26T21:13:00.001-04:00

Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple's Final Cut Studio to create the short Isn't She?..., an ode to John Hughes that follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to claim unemployment insurance.

Running time: 15:23

Visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

Learn more about the songs in the short at www.ediesedgwick.biz

Read parts 1 & 2 of Jamie's review of Final Cut Studio.

See how Jamie created the visual effects here.

TRAKOVSKY ON TARKOVSKY

2009-07-10T16:37:00.011-04:00

Jamie Stuart interviews documentary filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky on his film Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, which looks at the late auteur through his collaborators and friends. The film is currently playing at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of their Tarkovsky retrospective.

See interview here.
Running time: 4:20

Learn more about Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky here.

TILDA SWINTON, JULIA

2009-05-07T12:44:00.013-04:00

Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to talk about her role in the film, why she’d always wanted to portray a resourceful drunk, and how the indie-film world has changed since her heyday with Jarman in Britain’s underground cinema. -- Damon Smith

Running time: 5:46

NYFF 46 FILM SERIES

2008-10-14T14:00:00.000-04:00

Here Jamie Stuart examines the New York Film Festival with a irreverent brand of narrative/reporting that features the indie stars attending the festival while weaving a twisted tale starring Stuart himself.

NYFF46 PART 4

2008-10-13T09:34:00.005-04:00

In Jamie Stuart's final episode from his New York Film Festival series, Mickey Rourke reflects on the bad time in his career while Jamie learns the present is the best place to be.

Running time: 9:00.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (63.5MB)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

FILMCATCHER @ NYFF: DARREN ARONOFSKY, THE WRESTLER

2008-10-09T17:11:00.008-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky talks about coming up with the idea for his latest film The Wrestler, using non-actors to achieve a sense of reality, and the joys and challenges of working with a talent like Mickey Rourke.

See interview here.

NYFF46 PART 3

2008-10-07T11:33:00.009-04:00

Jamie Stuart drops a bomb in this episode from his New York Film Festival series. With special appearances by Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood and many more.

Running time: 7:48.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (69M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

FILMCATCHER @ NYFF: MIKE LEIGH, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

2008-10-06T16:21:00.009-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Mike Leigh, a director known for his gritty "kitchen-sink realism," talks about his most light-hearted film to date, Happy-Go-Lucky.

See interview here.

FILMCATCHER @ NYFF: ANTONIO CAMPOS, AFTERSCHOOL

2008-10-05T10:24:00.011-04:00

The first in a series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, director Antonio Campos talks about his debut feature, Afterschool, which follows a reclusive boarding-school student who, while shooting B-roll for a school project, unintentionally films two of his fellow students overdosing.

See interview here.

A PLEASURE IN RED

2008-10-02T20:02:00.011-04:00

Coin-Op Pictures's Evan Louison and David Woolner direct this short promo for Joshua Safdie's debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, which is out in limited release this weekend.

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NYFF46 PART 2

2008-09-29T10:55:00.003-04:00

Jamie Stuart continues his series of shorts from the 46th New York Film Festival with an appearance from Steven Soderbergh and a chance encounter with a woman in distress... or is she?

Approximate running time: 6:02.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (35M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

NYFF46 PART 1

2008-09-22T10:08:00.005-04:00

In Jamie Stuart's first episode in his series of shorts on the 46th New York Film Festival, he invites us into his wild imagination while sitting in on press conferences for directors Laurent Cantet and Kelly Reichardt.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (33M)

Approximate running time: 5:53.

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: ANNA BODEN & RYAN FLECK, SUGAR

2008-09-18T11:08:00.008-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck sat down with us to talk about Sugar, their second feature after the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson. The writer-directors talk about finding the perfect actors to portray major-league hopefuls in the Dominican Republic as well as how they handle tandem-style directing.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: BENT HAMER, O' HORTEN

2008-09-18T11:03:00.009-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamer talks about O'Horten, an absurd and sometimes sad comedy that meditates on loneliness and aging. In this interview, he talks about the importance of humor, the beauty of train travel and the freedom of shooting your own script.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: MABROUK EL MECHRI, JCVD

2008-09-17T10:18:00.007-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Mabrouk El Mechri's new film, JCVD, stars America's onetime favorite action hero, Jean-Claude Van Damme, playing a new kind of role: himself.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: RAMIN BAHRANI, GOODBYE SOLO

2008-09-16T15:02:00.007-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, New York filmmaker, Ramin Bahrani, talks about his third feature film, Goodbye Solo, the story of a cab driver trying to stop one of his passengers from taking his own life.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: ARNAUD DESPLECHIN, A CHRISTMAS TALE

2008-09-15T18:46:00.007-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin talks about his sprawling new fable of family dysfunction, A Christmas Tale.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: MATTEO GARRONE, GOMORRA

2008-09-15T14:17:00.005-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Matteo Garrone talks about his unique gangster film Gomorra and the dangers of making a movie about an active crime organization.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: MATT ASELTON, GIGANTIC

2008-09-12T17:25:00.011-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Matt Aselton talks about his debut feature film, Gigantic, about a young mattress salesman with dreams of adopting an Asian baby.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM & COLIN FIRTH, GENOVA

2008-09-12T13:29:00.012-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Genova director Michael Winterbottom and star Colin Firth talk about this story of an Englishman raising two daughters in the wake of his wife's accidental death.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: NIK FACKLER, LOVELY, STILL

2008-09-11T18:21:00.017-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Nik Fackler sat down to talk about his debut feature film, Lovely, Still, a tale of a winter romance about an elderly bachelor who returns home one day to find a beautiful woman sitting in his house.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: ARI FOLMAN, WALTZ WITH BASHIR

2008-09-10T18:43:00.014-04:00

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Ari Folman talks about his film, Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary/fiction hybrid based on the director's harrowing personal experiences as a young Israeli soldier caught up in the hostilities with Lebanon in the early '80s.

To see interview, click here.

FILMCATCHER @ TORONTO: JEFFREY LEVY-HINTE, SOUL POWER

2008-09-08T18:46:00.016-04:00

The first in a series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, director of Soul Power, talks about assembling a stand-alone film from unedited footage of the Zaire '74 music festival shot by Paul Goldsmith and Albert Maysles, among others, for Leon Gast's When We Were Kings.

To see interview, click here.

CUT SHORT

2008-01-27T22:50:00.003-05:00

We've once again asked Jamie Stuart to cover the Sundance Film Festival with his unique brand of filmmaking and create a short that encompasses the people he meets, his creative eye and basically whatever pops up in his head. This year's film includes George A. Romero, Ellen Kuras, Stacy Peralta and strange text messages.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (73M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

BEST FILM NOT PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU NOMINEES

2007-11-08T10:52:00.001-05:00

The nominees for the Gotham Awards' Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You will be screening Friday, Nov. 16 - Monday, Nov. 19 at The Museum of Modern Art. Here's a look at this year's nominees. The winner, selected by Filmmaker and MoMA's dept. of film, will be announced at the Gotham Awards Nov. 27. Click here for more on the screenings.

Approximate running time: 5:10.

Download here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link.

To learn more about the films, go to their websites:
Off The Grid: Like on the Mesa
Frownland
Mississippi Chicken
August The First
Loren Cass