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IFP Announces 20 Feature Films Selected for 2018 Filmmaker Labs
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s publisher, announced today the 20 feature films selected for the IFP Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s year-long fellowship for first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut feature. Combining documentary and narrative features together for the first time, the program begins today, running May 21-25 at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The Filmmaker Labs continues its dedication to supporting underrepresented voices. Over 60% of this year’s attending Lab Fellows, and over 70% of the directors specifically, are diverse in regards to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability. Furthermore, this year’s […]
by Filmmaker Staff on May 21, 2018 -
IFP and Seriesfest Launch Development Initiative for Independent Creators
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, and SeriesFest are partnering to launch the “Forward Impact Project,” a year-round initiative designed to help finance, produce, release, scale, and build an audience for 15 select independent series deemed ready for development and production. These projects will be selected in collaboration by SeriesFest and IFP and will include long-form, digital and international projects. The Forward Impact Project will take place during IFP Week in NYC, beginning on September 20, 2018, and will give the selected creators the opportunity to pitch to and receive feedback from a curated group of key industry players, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on May 3, 2018 -
Story + Journalism: Tabitha Jackson and Joaquin Alvarado Talk Documentary Safety and Security at CPH:DOX
Tabitha Jackson, director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute, and Joaquin Alvarado, from Studiotube and former director of Centre for Investigative Reporting, were in discussion in March 2018 at CPH:DOX about the relationship between journalism and creative documentary filmmaking as part of Doc Society’s the Safe+Secure initiative. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their dialogue. Alvarado: When we say documentaries, it means a lot of different things today — they have evolved greatly in the last couple of decades. How you would you sort of level-set for folks the space of documentary and how we talk […]
by Filmmaker Staff on May 1, 2018 -
IFP Announces Inaugural Audio Story Lab
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today the projects selected for the inaugural Audio Story Lab, IFP’s first foray into supporting makers with serialized audio projects. The two-day intensive program runs April 26-27 at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP. Based off the long-running IFP Filmmaker Labs and, more recently, the Screen Forward Labs dedicated to serialized content creators, the IFP Audio Story Lab will support groundbreaking audio artists with the necessary tools and mentorship to move their projects and careers forward. As part of IFP’s ongoing commitment to diversity, the IFP Audio Story Lab inaugural […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 27, 2018 -
Davey Foundation Offers Grants for Short Films; Late Deadline May 15
In years past, we’ve highlighted the Davey Foundation’s annual grant for short films, and while we missed posting about this year’s edition in time for the regular deadline, the late deadline of May 15 still applies. This year, three $5,000 grants are being offered; one includes a gear incentive package, while another also offers a $2,500 Utah filmmaker grant. This is the festival’s fifth year; past recipients have included Lauren Wolkstein’s Beemus, It’ll End in Tears and Fry Day, by 2017 25 New Face of Film Laura Moss. Guest jurors for this year’s edition are Sophia Takal (Always Shine, Green) and Adam Salky (I Smile […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 17, 2018 -
Watch: Zodiac‘s Commitment to Historical Accuracy
David Fincher is notoriously detail-oriented, but this video from the Film Radar account argues that Zodiac goes above and beyond in this respect. To make the point, this video examines two of the murders recreated in the film, juxtaposing the filmed version with testimony of survivors, emergency line recordings and other archival/interview materials. Warning: contains both spoilers and stabbings.’
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 10, 2018 -
Watch: Phantom Thread Camera Tests with Paul Thomas Anderson Commentary
Paul Thomas Anderson gets super-technical about the stocks and lenses used in these Phantom Thread screen tests. Includes an in-character food fight between Daniel Day-Lewis and Lesley Manville.
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 4, 2018 -
Watch: “David Lynch: The Treachery of Language”
“In Lynch’s own speech and in the speech patterns of his films, the impression is of language used less for meaning than for sound. To savor the thingness of words is to move away from their imprisoning nature.” Building off that observation, among others, from Dennis Lim’s fine work on David Lynch, video essayist Grace Lee examines the director’s ambivalent/averse relationship to language.
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 2, 2018 -
Watch: Isle of Dogs Cast Interviewed as Stop-Motion Dogs
This is clearly promotional material, but it’s good: the cast of Isle of Dogs doing their regular EPK interview duties, but animated as stop-motion dogs. See Jeff Goldblum sing Duke Ellington as Duke the dog! See Bill Murray talk about the sacredness of dogs in a weirdly Manakamana-esque setup on a cable car! The press release notes this took three months to shoot, and it shows.
by Filmmaker Staff on Mar 15, 2018 -
Airing the Dirty Laundry: Three Documentarians on Making a Film About Their Own Families
Ben Stillerman — director of Taking Stock, a new film about his father’s South African family business — talks with two other documentary filmmakers about the particular joys and challenges of making films about family. Leah Warshawski is the director of Big Sonia, about her inspiring Holocaust survivor grandmother; Kate Dandel’s Gold Balls is about professional senior tennis and features her father-in-law. Stillerman: I came up with the idea for doing a film about my father and our family business partly because I knew I would have unfettered access to a very interesting person and story. I also knew that […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Feb 15, 2018
