Authors — Scott Macaulay

BRADEN KING SENDS A POSTCARD FROM HERE

One independent film I’m especially looking forward to in 2010 is Braden King’s Here, shot in Armenia by Ballast‘s Lol Crawley and starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal. Braden’s film is ambitiously conceived, a story of a romance between a cartographer sent to map the Eastern European country and a local art photographer that will blend King’s striking images and moody drama with interstitial material by a number of great experimental filmmakers. Braden has launched a blog about the making of his film. Here’s an excerpt: It was an adventure. It was magnificent. It was terrible. It was hard. We […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 19, 2010
BRENT GREEN DEBUTS SCENES FROM HIS NEW FEATURE

One of the most creative and fascinating young filmmakers working today is Brent Green, the Pennsylvania-based animator whose work we first brought to our readers’ attention in 2005 when we selected him as one of our “25 New Faces.” His new film, Gravity, a feature, is his most ambitious film yet, and at the Andrew Edlin Gallery site he has posted a preview that makes me psyched to see the whole film. You can check it out here. Gravity promises to be an amazing blend of live action, narrative, and puppet stop-motion animation in a fantastically constructed set built on […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 19, 2010
KENTUCKER AUDLEY DEBUTS SCENES FROM OPEN FIVE

I’ll post a bit later about all the stuff in the new Filmmaker magazine that’s not online. It’s a particularly good issue, I think, and one of the things which is print-only is Alicia Van Couvering’s look at five films that found their money and went into production in 2010. We decided to do a financing-oriented corrective to all the doom-and-gloom stories out there, and this one is full of practical tips for filmmakers looking to crowdsource and raise money through other unconventional means. One of the films she writes about is Kentucker Audley’s Open Five, which is our 25 […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 19, 2010
TED HOPE’S 10 SCRIPT SUBMISSION TIPS

Ted Hope has an excellent blog post today, one of those print-this-out-and-post-it-above-your-computer lists to guide you through your work as a screenwriter. It’s entitled “Ten Things to Do Before You Submit a Script,” and it’s not about getting an agent or using two brads, not three. It’s about the final stage of a writer’s own in-house (i.e., in brain) development. There are a few that really resonated with me. One is: “Know what the historical precedents are for your story and how you differ from them in how you have chosen to tell it.” This is crucial. If a producer […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 19, 2010
FREDERIC JAMESON AND JACQUES ATTALI ON DIY

Well, not really but sort of… While researching an article I’m writing, I came across this trenchant passage by critical theorist Frederic Jameson in the foreword to the U.S. edition of Jacques Attali’s 1977 music manifesto Noise: The Political Economy of Music: “Not the least challenging challenging of Attali’s thought lies in his tough-minded insistence on the ambiguity, or better still, the profound ambivalence, of the new social, economic and organizational possibilities, which he often describes in terms of autosurveillance. From one perspective, autosurveillance marks the penetration of information technology within the body and the psyche of the individual subject: […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 18, 2010
A VIDEO FROM HAITI’S CINE INSTITUTE: "PRIERE," BY MANNASENA CESAR

Another video from the Cine Institute, a film school in Jaclem, Haiti. “Priere” (Prayer) by Manassena Cesar from Ciné Institute on Vimeo. See this blog post for our reporting on the Cine Institute as well as for links you can go to to help.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 16, 2010
THE NEW YORK TIMES COVERS DIY DISTRIBUTION

I just caught up with this Manohla Dargis piece from the New York Times published on the 14th. What she writes about — the DIY and hybrid distribution distribution strategies espoused by Peter Broderick and Jon Reiss as well as the current discussion about transmedia — will be familiar to readers of Filmmaker, but it’s still interesting to see them covered now in the Times. From the piece, titled “Declaration of Indies: Just Sell it Yourself!”: The new D.I.Y. world is open-source in vibe and often execution. Participants refer to one another in conversation and on their Web sites and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 16, 2010
THE COVE WINS AT THE CINEMA EYE AWARDS

Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove was the big winner at the Cinema Eye Awards, which were held tonight at the Times Center in midtown Manhattan. The film won the Oustanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Filmmaking Award as well as the Production and Cinematography Awards. A complete list of the awards follows. 2010 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking: Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos, produced by Paula DuPre Pesman and Fisher Stevens Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film:October Country, directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher Outstanding Achievement in Direction:Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes Outstanding […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2010
THE CINE INSTITUTE COVERS THE CRISIS IN HAITI

Recently in Filmmaker Melissa Silvestri wrote about the Cine Institute in Haiti in this short report: India has Bollywood, and Nigeria has Nollywood, two examples of international film industries that have thrived outside of Hollywood, and soon, perhaps, Haiti can be added to that list. In the port city of Jacmel, considered the cultural capital of Haiti and home to many writers, painters and poets, is the Ciné Institute, which is steadily instilling film schools in the country’s young film students. The school had its origins as a film festival in 2004. The Festival Film Jacmel, founded by filmmaker David […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2010
THE TEASER FOR SCORSESE’S BOARDWALK EMPIRE

On HBO this fall with a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese…
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 14, 2010

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