Authors — Scott Macaulay

"RISK FACTORS" IS RIGHT!

It’s kind of ironic that I’m here picking up the hotel’s free Wi-Fi and blogging on the second floor of the Sundance headquarters while waiting in a long line for my press credentials, which are delayed due to the festival’s internet being down (and the festival computers having lost a large number of photo files). So far, our small Filmmaker crew has, in less than 24 hours, been hit by said internet failure, food poisoning, lost luggage (along with the entire Delta flight I was on), and a missing condo owner (who was holding the keys). So it looks like […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 19, 2007
WIRED PREVIEWS SUNDANCE

Jason Silverman over at the Wired blog previews the Sundance Film Festival by scouting out some cool films and animations that employ technology in interesting ways. Here’s its take on some of the stuff in the New Frontier section, including one project that seeks to inspire a strange nostalgia amongst boomer heterosexual males: “As digital tools grow cheaper and more plentiful, artists are discovering a galaxy of new ways to mess around with cinematic form. Sundance’s foray into the world of 3-D cinema – the kind of stuff usually relegated to swank galleries — comes in the form of eight […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 12, 2007
MUSICAL MOMENTS

Well, since I produced a musical in 2006 I’ll take the high road and not debate Grady Hendrix’s claim that Rich Wong’s indie no-budget Colma: The Musical is the best musical of 2006. But, personal allegiances aside, I do like Colma a lot. In fact, it’s one of Filmmaker‘s “Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You” nominees for the year. Here’s what Variety‘s Hendrix just wrote about it: This isn’t a perfect movie, the flaws almost balance the virtues, but it’s a fresh, funny, unexpected flick that makes almost every musical out from Hollywood in the last few […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 11, 2007
CRIMINAL INTENT

From the Hollywood Reporter: FBI memo to Hollywood: If it’s not too much trouble, could you please portray our counterterrorism efforts with a bit more realism? Hoping for an answer in the affirmative, the FBI hosted its first workshop for screenwriters Wednesday at the Federal Building in Westwood. “FBI — Crime Essential for Writers” played well with the standing-room-only audience of executives and writers from several major and minor studios. Enthusiastic attendees had more questions than time allowed answers for, and few if any left the four-hour event early. The FBI, more so than even the Department of Homeland Security, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 11, 2007
SCHOOL SHOOTER SHUT DOWN

Boing Boing has been covering this week the controversy surrounding the Slamdance Film Festival’s rejection of a video game, Super Columbine Massacre, from its interactive competition, the Slamdance Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition. Here is Slamdance’s official statement: The Super Columbine Massacre RPG game has been withdrawn from Slamdance ’07. While understanding the different positions people have already taken with the game, we want to express the struggle we had with ours. On one hand, a jury selected a game they believed merited programming, a decision that always leads to our organization supporting the creator’s independent vision and freedom of expression. On […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 9, 2007
iEXCITED

The new Apple iPhone. It’s a widescreen iPod (but, um, at only up to 8 gigs? What gives?); OS X powered; a full version of Safari; WiFi and Bluetooth. Looks very cool. I’m officially very up on this and will be over-the-moon about it when it upgrades to a larger hard disk.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 9, 2007
THE GREEN PARTY

As you may have read below, Filmmaker is hosting an evening with animator and artist Brent Green this coming Wednesday. I think his work is really great and hope you can come and check it out. If you want to learn more about him, check out this essay on the Creative Capital website. Green is a Creative Capital fellow, and their support helped him realize his new Paulina Hollers, which we’ll screen on Wednesday before its Sundance screening next week. An excerpt from the Creative Capital page: Picture this: a Santa Claus who’s a skinny, irritable old cuss who guzzles […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 9, 2007
A.D.D.I.

Christopher Stack, who is finishing his film An Exercise in Vigilance and who replied on the Sundance post below, blogs over at Deep Structure. I just checked out his blog for the first time and like this post from back in August on what Stack calls ADDI: ADDI-compliant. it’s a term a friend and i coined to describe films that don’t bore me. add (attention deficit disorder for those of you living under a rock) + intelligence. the film not only has to move quickly, but it has to do so with intelligence, not wasting time on explaining the obvious […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 8, 2007
DREAMING

I don’t post a lot of rumors on this blog, but this one is cool. Ain’t It Cool News linked to Film Ick which linked to this article in New Zealand’s Stuff, in which Kirsten Dunst discusses an upcoming film role: Her only project on the horizon is with visionary French director Michel Gondry, whom she worked with on Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. “[It’s] about somebody who everybody knows, but I can’t say who it is,” Dunst teases, before admitting her character is a “well-known singer”, giving credence to reports that she is to play a very abstract […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 8, 2007
THE SUNDANCE MOB

In an effort to capture the Park City experience through social networking, text messaging and camera-phone reporting, Lance Weiler has created a “social mobile experiment” to document Sundance and Slamdance this year. Head over to the link for more info and to sign up. Here’s how Weiler describes it: WHO: We’re looking for people headed to Park City – so if you know anyone else that might be interested please forward them this email WHY: This is a free social mobile experiment to capture the festival experience from multiple people and to create a collage of those experiences. WHAT: We […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 8, 2007

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