Authors — Scott Macaulay

NEWMAN, SOLO LEAVE ICM FOR ENDEAVOR

Michael Fleming in Variety is reporting the big talent agent news that ICM motion picture head Robert Newman (pictured) and TV lit department head Matt Solo have left the agency for Endeavor, where both will become partners. While Variety says that Solo’s exit from ICM was expected, “Newman’s exit was a jaw-dropper, bringing Endeavor a client list that includes Danny Boyle, Guillermo Del Toro, Mike Figgis, Baz Luhrmann, Paul McGuigan and Robert Rodriguez.” The article goes on to note Newman’s strength: identifying hot directing talent early and guiding them to successful careers.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 4, 2007
WHAT I DIDN’T GET

I know it’s churlish to complain about what you didn’t get for Christmas, but, Microsoft, what gives? Oh well, I’m a Mac user anyway.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 1, 2007
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year, everyone, and best wishes for a great ’07 from everyone at Filmmaker.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 31, 2006
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

We’ve got no snazzy holiday photo, cute graphic, or cool short film (see “Christmas Blackout,” below)… just good wishes for everyone. From all of us at Filmmaker, we hope you are well and having a great holiday!
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 24, 2006
GARRETT SCOTT DOCUMENTARY DEVELOPMENT GRANT

Thom Powers emailed the below, an announcement of the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant, so created in memory of the talented documentary filmmaker and wonderful, passionate and engaged person who passed away this past Spring. What: This grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 12-15, 2007. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. TWO filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in its first year. Deadline: Applications must be postmarked by February 5. Applicants will […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 24, 2006
CHRISTMAS BLACKOUT

Check out Jamie Stuart’s holiday card, below, wishing us all a good holiday season.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2006
A NEW HUMANITY

If you only bookmark this blog and don’t regularly check out the main page, click over to Jason Guerrasio’s web-only interview with Alfonso Cuaron, whose Children of Men opened yesterday. Here’s Cuaron in an excerpt: I hope young people will see this film. I mean my generation, we blew it. I think we grew up in a world that was pre-idyllic, and we saw the world collapse in front of us and we tried to believe that it was not our fault, that it was not our responsibility. We felt powerless about the situations as if they were very overwhelming […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2006
CINEMATECH’S TECH TEN PIVOTAL EVENTS

I’ve been working on a piece for the next Filmmaker, a kind of year-end review of significant business developments in the world of independent film. Many of them are on Scott Kirsner’s “10 Pivotal Events of 2006,” which he’ just blogged over at his CinemaTech. Check out his commentary and if you like it, consider downloading his e-book, The Future of Web Video: Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers, which is a straightforward and sober primer on the current state of distributing video through the web. In addition to a chart listing revenue opportunities for independent producers, the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2006
REVERSE ENGINEERING

I’m a big Michel Gondry fan, just as much so after viewing the YouTube video below which treats his latest frippery, the “Michel Gondry solves the Rubik’s Cube with his Feet” YouTube clip, as a modern day Zapruder film, playfully debunking it in the process.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2006
GATHERING THE TRIBES

Screenwriter Annie Nocenti (she wrote Patriotville, directed by Talmage Cooley, which is currently in post-production) just returned from Baluchistan where she shot a documentary with partner Wendelin Johnson. She’s written a piece for The Brooklyn Rail discussing her trip which is a fascinating portrait of a “modern Sitting Bull”: the Khan of Kalat, Mir Suleiman Daud (pictured). A “chief of chiefs” in Baluchistan, one of Pakistan’s tribal provinces which also borders Iran and Afghanistan, Khan Suleiman is a Gucci shade-wearing, Hummer-driving statesman trying to unify the tribes towards an independent Baluchistan so that his people can stave off a “slow-motion […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 14, 2006

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