Authors — Scott Macaulay
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More New Year’s Resolutions for Filmmakers
In 2011 on New Year’s Day I posted “New Year’s Resolutions for Filmmakers” — 10 items filmmakers could embrace to improve their practice and thought processes for the year ahead. Last year, I thought about revising or updating it but couldn’t think of much to add. This year I looked at it again, and had some new thoughts. It’s still a decent list, and if you want to read something that will prod you in the gentle, empathetic, self-help-y manner of lists of these kind, a post full of to-do items you can file alongside “lose weight” and “be present […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 1, 2012 -
ON KEEPING YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
In case you stumble upon my January 1, 2011 post on “New Year’s Resolutions for Independent Filmmakers,” you might want to bookmark this blog post by Richard Wiseman, in which he discusses ways to keep your New Year’s vows. Here are the first three, and the complete list is at the link. And check out the video below, in which Wiseman explains the experiment he constructed around this topic. 1) Make only one resolution, your chances of success are greater when you channel energy into changing just one aspect of your behaviour. 2) Don’t wait until New Year’s Eve to […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 31, 2011 -
Our Top Ten Posts of 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, here, based on Google Analytics, are this site’s top ten posts of the year. 1. 25 New Faces of 2011. I mean, of course — what else would have been our top traffic-getter of the year? As it does every year, the unveiling of our 25 New Faces list outpaced everything else on the site by almost three to one. And one thing I’m especially proud of — at the time we pick them, the people on this list are real discoveries. As I look at lists with similar ambitions on other sites, I’m […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 31, 2011 -
THE “PARIAH” TEAM TALK
Just before its Sundance premiere, the team behind Pariah — writer/director Dee Rees, producer Nekisa Cooper, and actresses Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans — sat down with Jamie Stuart and me to discuss their film’s path to the big screen. Check it out, and make sure to see the film itself, which opened yesterday in limited release from Focus Features. (Note: video contains one mild spoiler.) [jwplayer config=”FM Player” file=”https://filmmakermagazine.com/videos/PARIAH_FINAL_CUT.mov” image=”https://filmmakermagazine.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Adepero-Oduye-Still.jpg”]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 29, 2011 -
KICKSTARTER: “LEAVE ME LIKE YOU FOUND ME”
Producer Adele Romanski (The Myth of the American Sleepover, The Freebie) is stepping into the director’s chair with Leave Me Like You Found Me, and she is raising post-production funds on Kickstarter. You can read our interview with Adele about Myth this past summer and check out her Kickstarter video below. From the Kickstarter page: A few years back while on a camping trip in California, I had the idea to shoot a film in a national park. The idea was to try and capture something small and intimate and beautiful within the backdrop of something vast and expansive and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2011 -
Bryce Dallas Howard Directors Canon EOS C300 Short
Here is a just-posted short science-fiction film, When You Find Me, directed by Bryce Dallas Howard and produced by Ron Howard. It’s short on Canon’s new EOS C300 camera. As Koo notes over at No Film School, the short was inspired by a photograph submitted as part of Canon’s Project Imagination contest.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 18, 2011 -
DID YOU KEEP YOUR 2011 FILMMAKING NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?
This year on January 1 I posted what become one of our best-trafficked posts of the year: a list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions for filmmakers. This year I thought I’d do a similar post… but I’m not sure I can improve upon last year’s list. So, I thought I’d ask you, our readers, to contribute. Did you make a filmmaking New Year’s Resolution for 2011, either from my list or one of your own? If so, did you keep it? If not, why? If you did, how did it work out? And, finally, do you have a New Year’s […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 17, 2011 -
SUNDANCE ANNOUNCES PROJECTS FOR JANUARY SCREENWRITERS LAB
Below is the press release announcing the projects for the Sundance January Screenwriters Lab. Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its annual January Screenwriters Lab, an immersive, five-day (January 13-18) writers’ workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Participating independent screenwriters – drawn from around the world, including the United States, China, South Africa, and Europe – will have the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, said, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 16, 2011 -
THE BEAUTY OF WASTED LIGHT
A stunning and eerie short video by David Parker about wasted light — the energy that spills from unattended lighting appliances. As he explains at Sunday-Paper: “Light” a short film directed by David Parker, initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to energy waste. Bleeding, crying lights were meant to metaphorically parallel the way in which we invisibly squander our natural resources without much thought. While the original sentiment remains, the film also grew into a poetic statement about a world run amok and the human tendency to exploit that which we hold dear. The film was shot […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 16, 2011 -
TRAILER WATCH: “MENTOR”
Filmmaker (The Mark of Cain, Bayou Blue) and Filmmaker contributor Alix Lambert is in production on Mentor, a documentary about teen bullying and suicide in Mentor, Ohio. Here is the just-posted trailer. Mentor Trailer from Alix Lambert on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 16, 2011
