Authors — Scott Macaulay
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Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Announces Open Call
The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship has announced an Open Call for its 2014 Fellow. In addition to a cash award of $1,000, the Fellowship provides an emerging documentary film editor with mentorship and support from both an established editor as well as a number of film organizations, including Manhattan Edit Workshop and SXSW. The Fellowship honors the career and life of Karen Schmeer, an acclaimed editor who worked on a number of classic films, including many by Errol Morris. She was struck and killed by a car fleeing a robbery on the Upper West Side of New York City […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 6, 2013 -
Screenwriter Nick Antosca on Getting In and Getting Out
Writer Nick Antosca was a guest recently on the Other People podcast, and, along with discussion of his literary practice and new short story collection The Girlfriend Game, he talked about screenwriting. Antosca writes film and television scripts with writing partner Ned Vizzini (It’s Kind of a Funny Story), and offers good advice on transitioning from fiction to screenwriting and breaking into television. Towards the end of the conversation Antosca, currently a writer on the NBC show Believe, speaks about how his fiction has changed as a result of screenwriting, citing one specific screenplay maxim: get into scenes late and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 5, 2013 -
Jamie Stuart Goes Backstage Baby with Jay Z
Filmmaker Jamie Stuart went backstage on Mark Romanek’s Picasso Baby shoot and created this short video capturing the lines, gear and space leading up to the rap artist’s performance art event. Glimpses include Marina Abramovic, Judd Apatow, Jim Jarmusch, Alan Cumming and others. Check it out above.
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 5, 2013 -
Stunning First Images and Video from the RED Epic Dragon
Director and cinematographer Mark Toia at the RED User Forum has his hands on the new 6K RED Epic Dragon, and he calls it “the real deal,” writing, “It’s the first camera ever that I have used that captures exactly what I see with my own eye. Never have I seen this before!” From Toia’s post: The Red Dragon sensor has 3 F STOPS more than before. 1 in the hight lights which rolls over wonderfully !, 2 solid extra stops in the darks…. maybe 3 once the colour science has been perfected. But there is still noise, but nothing […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 4, 2013 -
Jay Z’s Picasso Baby, directed by Mark Romanek
Here’s Mark Romanek’s first music video in a decade or so, a capturing of Jay Z’s recent performance art event at Pace Gallery, where he performed the single “Picasso Baby” for six hours straight. Shot by 25 New Face Jody Lee Lipes (Martha Marcy May Marlene), it features an all-star cast of participatory spectators, including, first and foremost, artist Marina Abramovic, whose own The Artist is Present performance it was clearly inspired by. Others include Judd Apatow, Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Marilyn Minter, Rose Lee Goldberg, Fab Five Freddy, Rosie Perez (dancing!), George Condo, Jemima Kirke, Alan Cumming and Radical […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 3, 2013 -
Day 1 of 25: James Ponsoldt and The Spectacular Now
A new, occasional column here at Filmmaker, “The Shooting Schedule” looks at film production through the prism of a single shoot day. I peruse a film’s call sheet and production report and ask the director questions solely based on what I see there. To launch the column, I couldn’t think of anyone better to talk to than my friend James Ponsoldt, whose third feature, The Spectacular Now, opens today. A contributor to Filmmaker — and a director whose first feature, Off the Black, Robin O’Hara and I produced — Ponsoldt has made with The Spectacular Now an indelible teen romance […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 2, 2013 -
Filmmaker’s Most Popular Posts of July, 2013
Via Google Analytics, here are our most popular posts of July, 2013. 1. 25 New Faces of 2013. No surprise here. Our annual survey of new talent regularly nabs our top traffic of the year — so much so that our site has crashed for two years straight. (Thanks, site5!) If you haven’t surveyed the list, you can find all 25 of our directors, actors, cinematographers and new media artists here. 2. Summer Grant Deadlines for Filmmakers. Dante Pilkington’s listing of funding opportunities for both fiction and documentary filmmakers took the number two spot. But if you’re just coming across […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 31, 2013 -
Braden King Creates Haunting, Tumblr-based Music Video for Califone
Filmmaker Braden King has made a hauntingly beautiful, web-only “interactive music video” for “Stitches,” the new single from Califone. In real time, the video pulls and sequences images from a curated selection of Tumblrs, sidescrolling them across your monitor in sync to the song’s elegant melancholy. Black-and-white photos and animated GIFs drift by, and by highlighting one with your cursor color bleeds back in. Click and the image flips over, allowing you to write a caption that is then sent to the band (and included on the “Stitches” home page) or, if you want, reblogged. Califone’s Tim Rutili and King are […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 31, 2013 -
Filmmaker Seeks Contributing Web Editor
Are you a good writer, knowledgeable about new developments in film and new media, and a reader of Filmmaker? Filmmaker is currently seeking an NYC-based Contributing Web Editor. This is a part-time position involving daily writing and posting to this site. In addition to possessing strong writing, reporting and editing skills, our ideal candidate will have experience with filmmaking itself, whether that’s in features, shorts or web/new media work. Our Contributing Web Editor will report on developments of interest to our filmmaking audience, including reports on new equipment and technologies, software and events as well as stories focusing on the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 29, 2013 -
IFP Announces 2013 Independent Film Week Selected Projects
IFP, publisher of Filmmaker Magazine, announced today 163 projects in development selected for its Independent Film Week Project Forum. Projects include documentaries by such directors as Academy Award Winners Louis Psihoyos and Cynthia Wade; fiction features by documentarians Jennifer Fox and Jeremiah Zagar; fiction features by web creators Mesh Flinders and Thom Woodley; and an original web series, Awesome Asian Bad Guys, by Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco. In addition, a number of projects from Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces have been selected, including new work from Carlen Altman, Sophia Takal, the Zellner Brothers, Alex Jablonski, Pete Ohs & Andrea […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 25, 2013
