Authors — Scott Macaulay

TORONTO: NATHANIEL DORSKY AND WAVELENGTHS 4

“If my life coincides with the life of film, I’ll be very happy,” said Nathaniel Dorsky at the Q&A following the screening of his three short experimental films in the Wavelengths 4 program at the Toronto Film Festival. That Dorsky’s work is bound to the materiality of its medium, to the poetry of light processed by the photographic process, was something I needed reminding of the night I saw his work. It’s easy to forget about things like film at a film festival. Most of the films at Toronto were projected digitally, their origins increasingly inscrutable in this age of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2010
INTERACTING WITH “THE SOCIAL NETWORK”

Here’s the interactive version of the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network.
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 18, 2010
SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010
PRODUCING ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS, PART TWO

Below is the second blog post from Katie Holly, producer of One Hundred Mornings, winner of the Workbook Project’s Discovery and Distribution Award. It begins a one-week run today at L.A.’s Downtown Independent. As I mentioned in my last post One Hundred Mornings was made as part of the Catalyst scheme, which was established to give writers, directors and producers a chance to make their first feature. Essentially it was a competition, and three winning films were given a chance to make a movie, fully financed and with additional production support provided in the form of mentorship. The mentorship element […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010
Nicholas Rombes Goes Into the Splice

If you remember my interview with Nicholas Rombes about his “10/40/70” series at The Rumpus a while back, you’ll know that I am a big fan of his original approach to film writing. Over at The Rumpus he looks at film through a deliberately tightened lens — examining a movie by only considering the scenes occurring at the 10, 40 and 70 marks. So, I was thrilled when Nicholas (pictured) subsequently proposed a new column for Filmmaker. It’s called “Into the Splice,” and it debuts today. (And, no, it’s not about editing.) In this series, Nicholas writes about the pleasures […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010
CONOR HORGAN ON POST-APOCALYPSE AND ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS

Here’s the first of two blog posts from writer/director Conor Horgan, whose One Hundred Mornings received the Workbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award and runs beginning this week at Los Angeles’s Downtown Theater. — S.M. There’s an old saying, that you should write what you know. I think you should also write about what scares you, and the world we’ve created in One Hundred Mornings scares the hell out of me. As we prepare for our week of screenings at the Downtown Theater, I’m reflecting on some of the real-life inspirations for the film, and what motivated me to make […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 16, 2010
MARK ROMANEK DISCUSSES NEVER LET ME GO

I love Mark Romanek’s new Never Let Me Go (opening this weekend) and will have some thoughts — not a review, I decided — about and inspired by the film on the site this week. Jamie Stuart spoke to the director here on Tuesday in a big theater with red seats. Below is his take on the man on that day. You can download the video here.
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 16, 2010
PRODUCING ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS, PART ONE

I was one of the judges for this year’s Wookbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award, which grants one lucky film a week-long theatrical run in L.A. with social media, street team and PR support. That run begins this week, September 16, at the Downtown Independent Theater, and the film is Connor Horgan’s character-based post-apocalyptic drama, One Hundred Mornings. All this week we’ll have blog posts from producer Katie Holly and Horgan here at Filmmakermagazine.com. Below is Holly’s first post on the producing of the film. — Scott Macaulay One Hundred Mornings was made for a tenth of the budget that […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 15, 2010
HERZOG AND MORRIS TALK IN TORONTO

“It’s so strange we remain friends,” said Errol Morris at one point in his dialogue with fellow director Werner Herzog at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday. During their hour-long conversation at the new Bell Lightbox, the two men spoke of many things — filmmaking, of course, but also reading, music, the Warren Commission report, and actors vs. non-actors (Morris: “In my more spurious moments I’ve said that the main difference between SAG actors and real people is that real people can act”). But mostly they engaged in a kind of digressive contemplation inflected by occasional bouts of one-upmanship — […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 15, 2010
WHAT I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN TORONTO

Toronto, the IFP Filmmaker Conference hot on its heels, the New York Film Festival, and, for us, the close of our Fall issue — the season has begun. We’ve already begun work on the magazine, and I’m getting ready to go Toronto, where I’ll join Howard Feinstein and Livia Bloom contributing to the magazine and blog. Of course, the best part of any festival experience is the serendipitous discovery, the word-of-mouth gem you were tipped to or the film you randomly walked into that turned out to be great. I hope to be telling you about some of those over […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 9, 2010

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