Authors — Scott Macaulay

BLOGGING FROM THE SUNDANCE CREATIVE PRODUCING LAB: MYNETTE LOUIE, PT. 2

Here’s our final Sundance Creative Producing Lab blog from producer Mynette Louie, who collects her thoughts after a night’s sleep back in New York. I flew home from the Sundance Resort late last night and just woke up after a 10-hour slumber. The weeklong experience of the Creative Producing Lab and Summit was intense, to say the least! Each day of the four-day Lab and 2.5-day Summit started at 8am and ended at 11pm, and we barely had any breaks. The range of what we covered with our producing advisers — Lynette Howell, Paul Mezey, Mary Jane Skalski, Jay Van […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 28, 2009
A FILMMAKER’S GLAMOROUS LIFE: ROSS KAUFFMAN

In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Ross Kauffman. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? Kauffman: About 14 years ago, I took long term leases on a raw space, built apartments, and rented them. I supported myself by being a landlord. Filmmaker: What was good/not good about this […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 28, 2009
HEY, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT MUMBLECORE?

TV ad for a Film Four mumblecore movie week. Hat tip: Karina Longworth.
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 27, 2009
A FILMMAKER’S GLAMOROUS LIFE: JOE SWANBERG

In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. Over the next few days on the blog we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. First up: Joe Swanberg. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? Swanberg: Now I’m able to support myself as a filmmaker, but during the making of my first two features I worked as a web designer, and I worked […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 26, 2009
THE FILMMAKER MESSAGE BOARDS RELAUNCH

As some of you noticed and commented upon back in the early Summer, our previous message boards fell apart due to rampant spam. We decided to completely raze the boards and start from scratch, and our new boards have just gone up in what we are considering a soft-launch while we work out any unexpected bugs or kinks. If you click over there you’ll see expanded and more specific categories covering the wide range of filmmaking as well as members of our editorial staff answering questions and taking part in the conversation. So, if you are a message-board kind of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 26, 2009
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO ASK… THE MESSENGER GETS A DISTRIBUTION DEAL

Proving that sometimes you just have to a) show up and b) ask, writer/director Oren Moverman sent the below email detailing how it came to be that Oscilloscope picked up distribution rights to his Sundance-premiering film, The Messenger. Six months after the film screened in Park City, a distribution deal emerged when Moverman happened to attend an IFP reception held at Deluxe Laboratories in New York to welcome Adam Yauch to its Board of Directors. Around 7.45 that night I met Adam and David Fenkel of Oscilloscope for the first time. I had wine. They told me they liked The […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 25, 2009
JON FURIE MEMORIAL SERVICE

The production community is stunned by the sudden passing this weekend of well respected Montana Artists senior feature and television agent Jon Furie. A memorial service will be held Thursday, July 23, at 3:00pm at the Large Chapel at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers or gifts, his family is asking that donations be made to Good Beginnings at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 22, 2009
DSLR OUTTAKES

Just posted in our new issue is Roberto Quezada-Dardon’s second article for us about shooting on the new DSLR still cameras. This one is “Pimp your DSLR,” in which Quezada-Dardon looks at some of the new accessories that are being manufactured to bring video camera functionality to these cameras. He also has his own blog, Outtakes, in which he’s posting a lot of great related material, including links to Canon 5D workflows , blog posts on working with HD, and outtakes from the pieces he’s written for Filmmaker, which include extended interviews with filmmakers like Zak Forsman. Recommended.
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 21, 2009
DAVID MUNRO ON THE BURST BUBBLE

I was at a dinner with a number of filmmakers last night and had a long discussion with a fellow producer that verged into all of the things people in the film business discuss today. Namely: how can the distribution platforms that currently exist today (theatrical, video, VOD, etc.) be somehow combined, re-ordered, reconstituted in a way that will enable a more financially beneficial base for independent film production? It is a tough question. I will admit that I’m in the camp that believes that there are potential rewards for the filmmakers willing to put the sweat equity into the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 21, 2009
GOING DUTCH AT EL PASO TACQUERIA

On Saturday night an exclusive dinner was hosted for participants to discuss issues involving alternative and arthouse film exhibition. The IFP’s Danielle DiGiacomo was there, and she files this report. On Saturday afternoon, in the sun-drenched backyard of the El Paso Tacqueria on 104th and Lexington, Rooftop Films, Cinereach, and IFF Rotterdam launched both a new partnership and a new form of the “panel discussion.” As white sangria flowed freely and guacamole was savored, several of independent film’s industry leaders and filmmakers and programmers came together to confab about “New Collaborative Models of Film Exhibition.” At least, according to the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2009

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