Filmmaker Videos
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Google Glass Releases New Demo Video, Offers Contest for Early Access
Google has released a new video demonstrating its Google Glass and is launching a new campaign, “If I Had Glass,” offering creative people a chance to buy the product early. Read details at the link but, in short, you have 50 words on Twitter or Google + to say what you’d do using Glass, the deadline is February 27, and, if selected, you have to pre-order Glass for $1,500.
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Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Featurette on David Riker’s The Girl
Fourteen years after making an impressive directorial debut with La Ciudad, David Riker is returning with his second feature, an unlikely border tale starring Abbie Cornish. In the following exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, Riker discusses the research he did and reveals how he conceived the story of the film.
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A Haunting New York Shot in HDR on the RED Epic-X
Filmmaker Colby Moore has shot an eerie New York montage in high-dynamic range on the RED Epic-X. Underneath his Vimeo video he explains his process: A short and creepy montage of scenes shot around the ever-photogenic island of Manhattan — filmed entirely in high-dynamic range and comprised of some HDR Timelapse footage I shot, along with a collection of slow-motion and normal 24fps footage processed from Red Epic-X RAW video that I recently captured and then exported as -2,0+2 TIFF stacks to be tone mapped in Photomatix using a batch processing workflow. Please note that none of this was shot […]
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Trailer Watch: Danny Boyle’s Trance
Danny Boyle’s latest film snuck up on us, being added to the release schedule a few weeks ago after flying below the radar. This red-band trailer for Trance, which stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel, makes it seem like an enjoyably pulpy venture into genre territory.
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Come Out and Play Director Makinov’s Video Manifesto
Come Out and Play, a film produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s company Canana, is an intriguing little chiller, coming out in March through Cinedigm, that I’m looking forward to checking out. The trailer reveals the movie’s promising narrative hook — the children on a remote island are killing all who cross their path — but what really grabbed my attention was the manifesto recorded by Come Out and Play‘s director, the single-monikered Makinov. My favorite line is, “I believe in the mystery of the spirit. That’s why I want to scream at the stupid person that keeps checking photos […]
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Interview Show Rambling On Now at Filmmaker
Rambling On, an independent film interview show, is landing at Filmmaker. Produced by filmmakers Russell Costanzo and Melissa B. Miller (The Tested), the show gathers, roundtable style, producers, directors and actors to discuss their working practices. Here’s an excerpt from the duo’s previous episode, a roundtable with producers Sophia Lin (Compliance), Josh Mond (Simon Killer), Riva Marker (What Maisie Knew), Jared Goldman (The Magic of Belle Isle), and Michelle Ann Small (Gun Hill Road). The moderator here is Matt Patches from Hollywood.com, and this clip addresses a skill every producer needs to learn how to master: How — and when […]
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Trailer Watch: Kick Me
Gary Huggins made our 25 New Faces list in 2006 on the basis of his excellent Sundance short, First Date. After a successful Kickstarter raise, he’s back now with his first feature, Kick Me. Here’s the synopsis, and the video is above. A fancy high school guidance counselor (Santiago Vasquez) ventures into unknown territory – Kansas City, Kansas – and learns crucial lessons about community, prejudice and brotherhood the hard way.
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Trailer Watch: Spring Breakers International Trailer (NSFW)
Harmony Korine’s upcoming Spring Breakers — which is featured in the current issue of Filmmaker — got a French trailer this week. As stated above, it is NSFW which, for a movie like this, seems only right.
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Ingrid Jungermann Launches New Web Series F to 7th
Ingrid Jungermann, one half of the team behind The Slope and a “25 New Faces” alum from 2012, has just launched her new very funny web series, F to 7th. It’s a “homoneurotic” sequel of sorts to The Slope, again featuring Jungermann’s screen alter ego Ingrid, and exploring further comic territory that pokes fun at the LGBT community and Park Slopers. The first two episodes are online now and feature guest appearances by Michael Showalter (in “Off-Leash Hours”) and Compliance actress Ashlie Atkinson (in “Tweener”). Go here to check out the show.
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Sundance Recommendations: Andrew Sensenig
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here Andrew Sensenig, the actor who plays The Sampler in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, offers his recommendations.
