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“The People Behind the Crimes”: Directors Frida Barkfors & Lasse Barkfors | Pervert Park
What fear — whether it’s personal, or one related to the development, financing, production or distribution of your film — did you have to confront and conquer in the making of your movie? When we first got to Florida Justice Transitions in 2010, we expected to make a film about the parallel society that we had read the sex offenders in this trailer park lived in. Very soon we met the people in the park, and by sitting with them in therapy, talking to them, and getting them to open up about their situation, we learned about sex offences and sex offenders […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2015 -
The Sundance Question: What Fear Did You Confront in the Making of Your Movie?
Each year Filmmaker asks all the incoming feature directors at Sundance one question. This year, our question revolves around fear. Specifically, what fear — whether it’s personal, or one related to the development, financing, production or distribution of your film — did you have to confront and conquer in the making of your movie? (To see past years’ questions and responses, click here.) We’ll upload the responses individually over the course of the festival. So, as the festival progresses, click the links below. The Sundance Film Festival is being held in Park City, Utah from January 22nd to February 1st. “The People Behind the Crimes”: Directors Frida […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2015 -
Dispatches from CPH:DOX and Borscht 9
International Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival – CPH:DOX 2014 by Pamela Cohn There is no way by which the events of the world can be directly transmitted or recorded in our brains. They are experienced and constructed in a highly subjective way. Our only truth is narrative truth, the stories we tell each other, and ourselves, the stories we continually re-categorize and refine. This sort of sharing — this communion — would not be possible if all our knowledge, our memories, were tagged and identified and seen as private, exclusively ours. —from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s film The 50 Year […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2015 -
Girl Gangs and Tweetstorms: Super 8
Larry Gross’s Twitter Amidst of sea of social media me-too-ism and diffidently composed schtick, screenwriter and critic Larry Gross’s Twitter feed stands out. Often composed in tweetstorm-style, the author of films ranging from 48 Hours to We Don’t Live Here Anymore spills out arresting meditations and poetic aphorisms on everything from Alain Badiou’s take on St. Paul to the poetry of Wallace Stevens to Paul Thomas Anderson’s intuitive understanding of the crisis in American cinematic narrative. twitter.com/@larryagross Y2K What separates Y2K from other independently developed role-playing games? According to the designers at Ackk Studios, their novelty comes from being a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2015 -
Venice, Paris, Brazil…: Load & Play
Don’t Look Now Asked by Time to name the sexiest sex scene of all time, three female writers and producers of Showtime’s Masters of Sex came to immediate agreement: Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie’s memorable coupling in Nicolas Roeg’s otherwise entirely scary Don’t Look Now. Simultaneously encompassing lust, despair and forgiveness, the scene shows the married couple passionately overcoming grief and mutual recriminations in their new Venice flat following the drowning death of their young daughter back in England. The scene sparked rumors neither actor was acting — an allegation Roeg has denied — but what makes the scene so […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2015 -
Victoria’s Film Exchange, A Production Resource for Filmmakers, Premieres The Strongest Man at Sundance (Sponsored Post)
Looking to make the most of a modest independent film budget? The Victoria, Texas-based Film Exchange invites filmmakers to come and take advantage of $500,000 worth of equipment — for free. Through Film Exchange, filmmakers can save thousands of dollars and raise their production value by implementing gear from the Film Exchange studio, including the 4K Canon C500 and Blackmagic 2.5K cameras, Zeiss cinema zooms and compact primes and a $60,000 sound package including Lectrosonic transmitters and Sennheiser microphones, as well as five 4K post-production and color grading stations. In addition to providing production services, Film Exchange can help with […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2015 -
Led by Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Complete 2014 Academy Award Nominations
Here’s the full list of the 2015 Academy Award nominees, led, improbably, by Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel with nine apiece. Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash Best Actor Steve Carell, Foxcatcher Bradley Cooper, American Sniper Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game Michael Keaton, Birdman Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything Best Actress Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore, Still Alice Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon, Wild Best Supporting Actor Robert Duvall, The Judge Ethan Hawke, Boyhood Edward Norton, Birdman Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher J. K. Simmons, Whiplash Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Laura Dern, Wild Keira Knightley, The Imitation […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 15, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything
Best not to spoil the twists and turns of Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything, and the trailer for his drama is accordingly cagey. All you need to know: Harrill’s well-received debut drama follows a newlywed bride in the wake of tragedy as she tries to rebuild her life through a program of ascetism. The next film in IFP’s “Screen Forward” series starts screening January 9th; more information here. For a little more background, check out the essay Harrill wrote for us last year.
by Filmmaker Staff on Dec 16, 2014 -
Sundance Announces 2015’s Premieres and Documentary Premieres Lineups
Here’s the last of Sundance’s slate announcements for 2015, this time with the films screening in its Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections, as well as the selections for a new Special Events section and participants for two panels. Previously announced: U.S., World and NEXT sections, and the Spotlight, Midnight and New Frontiers slates. PREMIERES A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year. Brooklyn / United Kingdom (Director: John Crowley, Screenwriter: Nick Hornby, based on the book by Colm Tóibín) — 1950s Ireland: Eilis must confront a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Dec 8, 2014 -
Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2015 Heterodex Nominees
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking today announced the five nominees for its annual Cinema Eye Heterodox Award, sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP. The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award honors a narrative fiction film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. The five films nominated this year for the Cinema Eye Heterodox Award are: Boyhood directed by Richard Linklater Heaven Knows What directed by Josh and Benny Safdie A Spell to Ward off the Darkness directed by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell Stop the Pounding Heart directed by Roberto Minervini Under the Skin directed […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Dec 8, 2014
