Filmmaking

“I’m Liberated from How the Industry ‘Used to Be'”: Tricha Kumar on Tough Filmmaking Lessons

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor In late 2017, I left the corporate world, sold my belongings and moved to India to pursue “The Bollywood Dream”—a glamorous life of dancing, music and movie stars. Cut to two […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“This Crisis Has Exposed So Many Inequalities”: Brian Newman on the Need for New Systems

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor During COVID—but pre-George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests—my thoughts keep coming back to how this crisis has exposed so many inequalities. But in the film world, it has really […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“COVID Seemed to Reveal the Real Virus: Laura Merians Gonçalves on Interconnections

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor So much going on now. COVID seemed to reveal the real virus. There’s been a worldwide awakening of the deep systemic problems in this country. Film has the ability to show […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“We Had Unknowingly Been Sheltered Inside the Circus”: Véronique N. Doumbé’s Documentary COVID Story

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor My name is Véronique N. Doumbé, and my COVID story starts early this year. I have been wearing a mask inside airports for a while now, a habit I have developed […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“How Much Risk is Involved with Even the Most Softcore Shoot?”: Stoya on Filming During Lockdown

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor I’m mainly a pornographer. Though COVID-19 is not a sexually transmittable infection, it can be sexually transmitted. So, I’m thinking a lot about risk. How much risk is involved with even […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
The Pandemic Diaries: Filmmakers on Art, Life, Filmmaking and Politics in the Age of Coronavirus

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. “At Present, Many of Us are Living in the Conditions of My Speculative Fiction…”: Alison Nguyen on Her Isolated, Computer-Simulated Woman, “Andra8” “… Every Night I Dream That I am Shooting a Film”: DP Benoit Delhomme on Life […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“We Will Be Close Again Because Otherwise We Die”: Michel Reilhac Thinks about VR During Quarantine

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor It has almost become a cliché to discuss how the pandemic is VR’s big chance and accelerator. Yes, of course, we are all overdosing Zoom zombies, and the online parties feel […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“What Does It Mean To Be ‘Essential'”?: Tinx Chan on a Storyteller’s Obligation

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor One month into the New York lockdown, as anyone deemed “nonessential” was required to stay at home, I procrastinated another day away, as I had a long list of recommended films […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“I Keep Thinking about Who is the Most Vulnerable Right Now…”: Michelle Handelman on Isolation and Struggle

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor There’s so much political and psychological upheaval going on right now that it’s hard to narrow it down to a single statement. Where to begin? I was working on a new […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking
“What Happens When Making Cinema Stops?”: Kamau Bilal Thinks About Creative Futures

In April, as we began to put together the Summer, 2020 issue of Filmmaker, we asked directors, cinematographers, editors and other film workers to send us their thoughts on the quarantine and their own creative lives. The responses printed here were collected from April through mid-June — personal statements that speak variously to individual filmmaking practices, films halted mid-production, politics, art and life. Read all the responses here. — Editor Based on where my people are, I feel like I’m, at best, one to two generations early in trying to be an indie filmmaker. I feel selfish. Wealth of money (and […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jul 8, 2020 Filmmaking

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