Authors — Filmmaker Staff
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Win Copies of Ginger & Rosa and Kiss of The Damned
Filmmaker has five copies to give away of two films out on DVD and Bluray today: Sally Potter’s coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa and Xan Cassevetes’ sexy vampire flick Kiss of The Damned, courtesy of Lionsgate and Magnolia respectively. The first people to email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the correct answer to one of the following trivia questions will a copy of the corresponding film. Ginger & Rosa trivia question: Who was the leading lady in Sally Potter’s first feature film? Kiss of the Damned trivia question: What are the names of the debut feature films by both of Xan Cassevetes’ […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 23, 2013 -
The POV Conversation: Stephen Maing and Lixin Fan on Growing Up with Film
Last year, to celebrate POV’s 25th anniversary, Filmmaker organized a series of conversations between documentary directors whose work had been featured on the PBS non-fiction showcase. This year, we continue this series with a fascinating discussion between Stephen Maing – whose debut feature on Chinese citizen bloggers, High Tech, Low Life, airs tonight on POV – with Lixin Fan, the Chinese filmmaker whose Last Train Home, an intimate portrait of a fractured family of migrant workers in China, won him great acclaim in 2009. In the first of this five-part discussion, the two discuss their early cinematic experiences. High Tech, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 22, 2013 -
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2013
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by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 18, 2013 -
Load & Play
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN Virgil – out now The definitive American documentary about the defining civil-rights issue of our time, Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In is a personal epic, a film that takes Jarecki’s relationship with an African-American family, the matriarch of whom used to be his house cleaner as a child, and uses it as a springboard to investigate the dark secret in the American heart that is our disastrous, 40-year-old drug war. Harrowing and sublime, The House I Live In is aided by a Greek-chorus-like narration from ex-crime reporter and The Wire auteur David Simon. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 18, 2013 -
Super 8
James Turrell While a visit to James Turrell’s private, Arizona-based Roden Crater project remains on every art obsessive’s bucket list, the optical mysteries of this groundbreaking artist can be more easily viewed this summer in a monumental three-museum retrospective. Visit the Guggenheim in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the L.A. County Museum of Art to experience Turrell’s indescribable, light-based sculptures. Accidental Tech Podcast Developers, consumer tech geeks and, particularly, obsessive Mac fans, there’s a new podcast for you. Three developers and tech journalists (Marco Arment, Casey Liss and John Siracusa) who previously found their home on […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 18, 2013 -
Exclusive Script Extracts and Storyboards from Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
Courtesy of writer/director Carlos Reygadas, below are the script and storyboards from two sequences from Post Tenebras Lux, which opens at Film Forum today. The first sequence is the sauna scene, in which the film’s two central characters, played by Adolfo Jiménez Castro and Nathalia Acevedo, visit a swingers sauna in France, and the second is the closing sequence of the film. 10. Cave. Camera hand held and on tripod. To be determined whether real steam or fake smoke. Juan, Esther and extras. (French). 1. Series of fixed shots of naked people in a steam bath with red light. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on May 1, 2013 -
Meet the Latest SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant Finalists (Part 3)
Last year on the Filmmaker website, we ran a series of pieces in which we profiled a group of finalists for the San Francisco Film Society’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking grant, run through the organization’s Filmmaker360 program. Now there’s a new set of finalists, and we are once again putting the spotlight on all those shortlisted for the grant. You can read Part 1 of this current series here and Part 2 of the series here. JONAS CARPIGNANO (WRITER/DIRECTOR), A CHJÀNA Synopsis: After leaving his native Burkina Faso, Ayiva makes the perilous journey across the Sahara and Mediterranean in search of a better life in Europe. Once in Italy, he […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 9, 2013 -
Meet the Latest SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant Finalists (Part 2)
Last year on the Filmmaker website, we ran a series of pieces in which we profiled a group of finalists for the San Francisco Film Society’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking grant, run through the organization’s Filmmaker360 program. Now there’s a new set of finalists, and we are once again putting the spotlight on all those shortlisted for the grant. You can read Part 1 of this current series here. IAN HENDRIE AND JYSON MCLEAN, MERCY ROAD Synopsis: Based on true events, Mercy Road traces the political and spiritual odyssey of a small town housewife as she turns from a peaceful pro-life […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 1, 2013 -
Muscle Shoals | Director Greg “Freddy” Camalier
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 26, 3:30pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] What I had to sacrifice to make Muscle Shoal was being there for my children. I am a single father of two awesome boys. They need me and I need them. They are my most precious blessing and they make my life rich. They miss me when I’m gone and I miss them. Gone for them isn’t just me being away on a shoot, it’s being at the office late at night trying to make a deadline or trying to press ahead hard when the inspiration is flowing. It’s having to […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 25, 2013 -
Sweetwater | Directors Logan & Noah Miller
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Thursday, Jan. 24, 9:45pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] It all depends on who you ask. The producers would probably say they sacrificed an ungodly amount of money. Which is true. Good on them. The actors might say they sacrificed a larger paycheck on a bigger movie. To be sure. It’s an indie. The narcissist, which by definition every filmmaker qualifies, says EVERYTHING: grooming, pond-gazing, moonlight sonatas, vengeance against enemies, meditative bowel movements, a drastic reduction in sexual activity (if not a total loss), etc. But we’re twins. So we sacrificed each other. You see, we share everything. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 23, 2013
