Authors — Scott Macaulay
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Creative Capital Announces Film/Video Grant Deadlines
Creative Capital, the non-profit funding organization that has supported such recent films as Laura Poitras’s The Oath, Marshall Curry’s If a Tree Falls, and Braden King’s HERE, has announced its new film/video funding cycle. The deadline for letters of inquiry is March 1. From the press release: Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing innovative and adventurous projects. We support artists whose work is provocative, timely and relevant; who are deeply engaged with their forms, yet also boldly original; who create work that carries the potential to reshape the cultural landscape. To be eligible to apply, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 1, 2011 -
Beautiful Blue Valentine End Credits
Here’s one of the most beautiful end title sequences you’ll ever see, one that extends the film’s themes of love found and lost until the final moments the lights come up. It’s for Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 31, 2011 -
VISITING “PANDEMIC” MISSION CONTROL WITH LANCE WEILER
I stopped by Sundance’s New Frontiers building yesterday and visited Pandemic 1.0 with its creator, Lance Weiler. Here’s a short, casual Flip video with Weiler showing me the two rooms of the installation. For more info on this piece, read Weiler’s column in this issue of Filmmaker. And here’s Jamie Stuart’s piece on Weiler shot this week in Park City at our Main Street lounge.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 28, 2011 -
“MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE” ACTORS ELIZABETH OLSEN AND JOHN HAWKES
With two movies — Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, which sold to Fox Searchlight; and the one-shot horror picture Silent House — Elizabeth Olsen was one of Sundance 2011’s breakout stars. And while at the festival, Durkin’s fellow lead John Hawkes was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in last year’s festival Grand Jury Prize-winner Winter’s Bone. Here, from Jamie Stuart, are both actors discussing their roles as, respectively, cult follower and cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Look for Durkin to appear in our mammoth wrap-up video next week.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 28, 2011 -
SUNDANCE VOLUNTEER CHRISTINE IOANNIDES
Here’s the last of our profiles of volunteers at the Sundance Film Festival. Today, Utah local Christine Ioannides. Visit this spot next week for an interview between Robert Redford and Kenneth Cole discussing the relationship between volunteerism and film festivals.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 28, 2011 -
“WIN WIN”‘S PAUL GIAMATTI AND TOM MCCARTHY
Below, Jamie Stuart sits down with writer/director Tom McCarthy and actor Paul Giamatti to discuss their very-well-received Sundance premiere, Win Win, and the difficulties of dramatizing virtuous people.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 24, 2011 -
SUNDANCE VOLUNTEER JEFF AGUIRRE
When first-time Sundance filmmakers ask me for advice on attending the festival, I always tell them, “Get to know the volunteers.” Park City can be a difficult place to navigate. Seasoned vets already know the tricks for making their way around, and sage guidance from the volunteers can be the only for newcomers to level the playing field. But there’s another reason I recommend people get to know the volunteers. And that’s because they’re really interesting people. While a lot of festivals rely on recently graduated local students whose ranks turn over every year, Sundance has a cadre of volunteers, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 24, 2011 -
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
From a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, Neil Burger takes us on a pharmaceutical-fueled joyride through a conspiratorially intelligent New York business world in Limitless. By Scott Macaulay PLUS: Leslie Dixon on nurturing your inner Tarantino.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 24, 2011 -
Sasha Grey Melts With You
Below we posted four teasers from Mark Pellington’s Sundance feature, I Melt with You. They consisted of the male leads, and now counterpoint is provided by Sasha Grey.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 21, 2011 -
SUNDANCE: PASTS, PRESENT AND FUTURE
I was about half way through my monster preview of this year’s Sundance Film Festival when I stopped. There’s just an awful lot I’m looking forward to this year — way more than I’m able practically to see and perhaps more than you want to read about. Also, I was having a hard time writing about the individual films because, in many cases, I know too much about them. There are a ton of “25 New Faces” in the fest, people we’ve been following for years. Several filmmakers who went through the IFP’s Narrative Lab, of which I’m a part, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 21, 2011
