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Dissolve – Like Having a Free Footage Researcher on Crew (Sponsored Post)
Maybe you’re storyboarding and know you need a Venice aerial. Or you’re in post and realize a cutaway would make all the difference. When time is at a premium, budget at a minimum, and those shots are non-existent, Dissolve’s free research service can help. Creative thinkers themselves, Dissolve’s research team will work with your storyboard, shot list, even one specific clip request to find the stock footage you need. You’ll get only the best results — no wading through pages and pages of irrelevant content. The team works quickly too, usually delivering within one day. Ally Oleynik, a producer at […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 15, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas
There is really no reason for us not to post a trailer for a forthcoming “holiday special” directed by Sofia Coppola and designed expressly as a hang-out vehicle for Bill Murray. Judging by the fact that A Very Murray Christmas has an actual plot and a lot of shadowy interior lighting, it would seem that Coppola has effectively made her next medium-/feature- length film rather than dashing off a simple TV assignment. It drops December 4.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 14, 2015 -
Free Animated Icons, After Effects Presets and More for Your Video Project from PremiumBeat (Sponsored Post)
PremiumBeat, a royalty free music library, offers a variety of affordably licensable cues that can be used in your video project. In addition, the company is offering a number of other useful tools for free that can be of use for your video editing projects. Here are five of the most recent packages from their site: 20 free hand-made animated icons that can be dropped into your package. The icons are all pre-rendered footage, meaning they’ll work in any video editing or motion graphic software. The icons were all created in After Effects and you’ll see the project file included […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 30, 2015 -
Watch: “Capturing the Moment: In Search of Adequate Images”
A bit of a rant, Stephen Murphy’s video essay “Capturing the Moment: In Search of Adequate Images” springboards off a diatribe against the epidemic of smartphones at concerts to riff off of Werner Herzog’s long-ago warning that we as a society need to find adequate images. What are these adequate images, and how do we define them? Murphy has some thoughts, and some high praise for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as well.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 22, 2015 -
Two New Awards For Serial Television and Digital Media at This Year’s Gotham Awards
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that two new awards will be given at the upcoming 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards. Two Breakthrough Series awards will single out outstanding achievement in serialized content in television and new digital media. Long Form (for continuing or limited series with episodes running 30 minutes and longer) and Short Form (for continuing or limited series with the majority of episodes under 20 minutes). Focusing on “debut” series, only series that premiered within the last year (September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2015) will be eligible. Full criteria for the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 17, 2015 -
Win An Ultra-Wide LG34UC87 Monitor And $10,000 To Promote Your YouTube Presence (Sponsored Post)
The LG34UC87, an ultra-wide monitor, is designed with the needs of editors and gamers specifically in mind. At 34 inches, the curved display eliminates the need to set up two side-by-side monitors, reducing your workflow to one manageable screen that appears in 3440x1440p resolution. The IPS display gives you over 99% of the space of sRGB in over twice the space available on a 16:9 full HD resolution display. With a wide screen, the need to move from one open program to another is eliminated, and you can complete your video without the need for any additional rendering, making the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 17, 2015 -
Gotham Independent Film Awards to Present Tributes to Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Todd Haynes and Steve Golin
Today the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards (presented by Filmmaker Magazine‘s parent organization IFP) announced three additional tributes to be presented at this year’s 25th anniversary awards ceremony. In addition to previously announced director honoree Todd Haynes, Actor and Actress tributes will be presented to Robert Redford and Helen Mirren, and Anonymous Content founder and CEO Steve Golin will be awarded the Industry Tribute. The awards will take place Monday, November 30. For more information, click here for the full press release.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 15, 2015 -
IFP Announces Program for Screen Forward: IFP Conference 2015
Today, IFP (Filmmaker‘s parent organization) announced the full lineup for the annual Screen Forward: IFP Conference. Taking place this year from September 20-25 at Lincoln Center, the program consists of several different sections. Among Industry Talks, you’ll find a discussion with longtime collaborators David Wain and Michael Ian Black, whose resurrected Wet Hot American Summer has recently made a splash on Netflix, and one with Christine Vachon, the Killer Films producer whose latest project is Todd Haynes’ forthcoming, keenly anticipated Carol. Some other highlights, as noted in the press release: *“Who Needs the Boys Club?” a discussion on inequality and the misperceptions […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 3, 2015 -
Watch: A Centenary Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
In honor of Ingrid Bergman’s centenary, Criterion has posted this tribute video cut together by Jonathan Keogh. For more reading, head over to Keyframe Daily, where David Hudson has rounded up some recent writing on the actress and the many retros of her films currently taking place.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 2, 2015 -
Watch: POV Shots in the Coen Brothers’ Films
Here’s another nifty video from Jacob T. Swinney, this time bookending an assembly of the Coen brothers’ numerous POV with montages of their many dashboard-driving shots.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 1, 2015
