Filmmaking
Filmmaking
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RISK TAKING AT EMERGING VISIONS
The theme that seems to be emerging today is about taking risks. When all of us filmmakers introduced ourselves this morning at our yummy breakfast we were asked to talk about the craziest thing we had done so far as filmmakers. Doug Liman during his keynote talk carefully cut our risks in two categories. Physical danger risks which umbrella all the scary things we filmmakers do to pull off a shot, most illegal. And the often scarier emotional risks. Allowing yourself to be true to your vision, to pull back the layers… to essentially trust. My introduction story was about […]
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The Blue Velvet Project, #24
Second # 1128, 18:48 1. “The first thing I need,” Jeffrey tells Sandy, “is to get into her apartment and open a window that I can crawl into later.” As it turns out, this plot line never develops, as Jeffrey spots a key to Dorothy’s apartment which he takes instead. It seems like a minor point, the window, (although in the apartment in his bug overalls Jeffrey does glance twice at the window above Dorothy’s sink) and we soon forget about it. It’s one of those moments in Blue Velvet that only obliquely and in the most obscure ways references […]
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Photographer/Director Louie Psihoyos on The Singing Planet
Louie Psihoyos started out as a still photographer for National Geographic. He won an Oscar for his first feature length documentary: The Cove, which took an unflinching look at the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. He is now starting work on his next film, The Singing Planet, which will be shot underwater using extraordinary sound recording advances. He took a moment to talk with me about his films and his work as an environmentalist. Filmmaker: How did you get interested in still photography? How did you start working as a photographer? Psihoyos: I loved making art when I was a […]
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WEEK THREE AT THE EDIT CENTER
On Monday, each of us sits down to address the notes that we received from Rodney Evans, the director of The Happy Sad, on Friday. We are all tapping away with our headphones on, filling a common room, but simultaneously lost in our personal space bubbles. We do this for the better part of the day. Tuesday we have scene analysis. This is, of course, my favorite because… we are watching movies. Watching movies has been my hands-down favorite pastime since, well, forever. We watch Monique’s award-winning performance in Precious. If you have seen Precious (sorry, I’m not going to […]
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EMERGING VISIONS… IN ANTICIPATION
I’m sitting in seat 8A on a flight from San Francisco back to N.Y. in anticipation of the Emerging VisionS event tomorrow. The last weeks have been a whirlwind, the good kind where the pieces start to fall into place and momentum starts to build. My film Khsara, a comedy about Arab women who don’t get married in time, was conceived a few years ago. Since then I have been writing draft after draft thankfully with the support of fine organizations like IFP. After the non-stop No Borders week, I flew to San Francisco where my film takes place and […]
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EMERGING VISIONS MUSINGS
First, to introduce myself: I’m Kate Barker-Froyland, a Brooklyn-based writer/director. For the past several years I’ve been making short films and music videos. My new project in development is called Song One, a narrative feature I wrote about music and falling in love. The movie’s set in New York, and it’ll be my first feature. I was really excited when I found out I’d be a part of the first year of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s/IFP’s Emerging Visions program, happening all day tomorrow. Each of us (25 filmmakers) has been paired up with a mentor who we’ll be […]
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HARMONY KORINE, “SNOWBALLS”
Following last year’s Act Da Fool, here’s the latest Harmony Korine short film, Snowballs, for the designer Proenza Schouler.
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IFP’s EMERGING VISION’S PROGRAM — THE DAY BEFORE
I have never blogged before, and my initial thoughts on the whole web blog phenomena was that “in my day, diaries and journals were private. We hid them and secured them with locks.” Then I realized I actually used the words “in my day,” and frantically searched for a way to undo it since I am clearly too young for such a phrase. When the opportunity to do this blog came about, I welcomed it gladly. Besides, my mother and sister kindly prepared me to share my deepest darkest secrets when at ten years of age they read my journal cover […]
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“NOBODY CAN PREDICT THE MOMENT OF REVOLUTION”
A well-shot, well-edited video documenting the New York Occupy Wall Street protests with participants explaining their goals and motives. (Click on the headline if you can’t see the video.) The film is made by Iva Radivajevic and Martyna Starosta. Iva’s website, Iva Asks: Documenting the Masses, offers a variety of short-form documentary work. From her bio: Iva Radivojevic spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus before settling in NYC to pursue her artistic goals over a decade ago. Iva’s films explore the theme of identity, migration and immigrants – focusing on how life experiences shape one’s character, identifications, decisions, […]
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OCTOBER VOD CALENDAR
Now on our VOD calendar are titles available for the month of October. Some highlights: Terrence Malick‘s Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life, Joe Cornish‘s entertaining thriller Attack the Block, Azazel Jacobs‘ high school drama Terri and documentaries Buck and Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. For titles from previous months go to our VOD Calendar homepage.
