FILMMAKER MAGAZINE | Summer 2001: Features

25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM
Every year Filmmaker attempts to predict the future by highlighting 25 people we believe will shape it. This year’s group spans a wide diversity of talents and directions, including animators, directors, writers, d.p.s, composers and actors. But they all share a dedication to their craft and provide us with a promise of things to come.

STILL WATERS
San Francisco-based filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel update a postwar melodramatic novel to contemporary Lake Tahoe in The Deep End. Screenwriter Howard Rodman speaks with the directing team.

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
In nine months, artist and filmmaker Larry Clark has shot three features – Bully, Ken Park and Teenage Caveman. Chuck Stephens talks with Clark about his current work obsession.

ROMANCE NOVEL
Returning to his native Colombia with high-definition video camera in hand, Barbet Schroeder shoots Our Lady of the Assassins, a violent Spanish-language tale of a writer searching for impossible love. Ray Pride interviews the director.

SPIRITS MOVE ME
Having documented the life of graphic artist R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff tackles his first fiction feature – a screen translation of Daniel Clowes’s cult comics classic, "Ghost World". Ray Pride chats with Zwigoff

COMMITTED
On the eve of two theatrical releases – the sci-fi romance Happy Accidents and the insane-asylum shocker Session 9 – writer/director Brad Anderson speaks with Travis Crawford about maintaining a career as an independent filmmaker.

LINE ITEMS

HONEST BROKERS
In a saturated market, do producers need producers reps to get their films seen and sold? Reed Martin looks at this world of dynamic middlemen. Plus Twelve Tips for Selling Your Film.