Filmmaking

INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER CONFERENCE EMBRACES THE FUTURE (AND THE PAST)

Along with Labor Day, IFP’s Independent Film Week marks the end of Summer for me. It is a time to get back into the work groove and make plans for the year ahead. In this vein, the Independent Filmmaker Conference started yesterday with a day of panels dedicated to the future of film. Joana Vincente, Executive Director of IFP, opened the conference by noting a flurry of acquisitions at the recently completed Toronto International Film Festival and suggesting that things may be starting to look a little rosier for the independent film business. There were certainly some notes of optimism […]

By Ingrid Kopp on Sep 20, 2010 Filmmaking
On Festivals, Festival Programmers and Independent Film Week

It’s September, and after a long, scorching summer, the festival season has finally gotten under way; Telluride, Venice, Toronto are in the books, the New York Film Festival is just on the horizon and my job as a film programmer and artistic director has kicked off in earnest. The screenings begin, the landscape starts to take shape; acquisitions are tracked, release schedules scrutinized, and submissions and new films begin to make their way to us. So often, I read articles about film festivals as if they were these mysterious, unknowable institutions that make random, arbitrary decisions about which films they […]

By Tom Hall on Sep 20, 2010 Filmmaking
TORONTO: TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING AT ‘WAVELENGTHS’

Wavelengths, the Toronto International Film Festival program that ferries viewers deep into the world of contemporary experimental film, celebrated its tenth birthday in 2010 and received a sweet birthday gift: A completely sold out first show. Even enthusiasts who had lined up more than thirty minutes early were turned away from the 200-seat theatre at the Art Gallery of Ontario (along with your loyal scribe and similarly surprised colleagues from The Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Pacific Film Archive and the Walker Art Center). It was an auspicious start to curator Andréa Picard’s extensive program of more than thirty individual […]

By Livia Bloom Ingram on Sep 19, 2010 Festivals & Events
TRAILER FOR TODD HAYNES’S “MILDRED PIERCE” RELEASED

Here’s the trailer for Todd Haynes’s five-part HBO miniseries, “Mildred Pierce,” that played tonight in front of the premiere of Boardwalk Empire. (Click on the headline if the trailer does not appear.)

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2010 Filmmaking
INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK AND RADIOHEAD

It’s Independent Film Week and the IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Conference, so I thought I’d bring up Radiohead before some panelist does. A couple of years ago I remember sitting at a panel (not at the IFP, actually) at which a young filmmaker was asking how to jumpstart his own business model. A guy onstage in a suit who probably billed at $600 an hour looked at him and said, “The answer is Radiohead,” referring to the band’s strategy of releasing their In Rainbows digitally over the internet for whatever price fans were willing to pay. (The band subsequently released a […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2010 Filmmaking
TORONTO: NATHANIEL DORSKY AND WAVELENGTHS 4

“If my life coincides with the life of film, I’ll be very happy,” said Nathaniel Dorsky at the Q&A following the screening of his three short experimental films in the Wavelengths 4 program at the Toronto Film Festival. That Dorsky’s work is bound to the materiality of its medium, to the poetry of light processed by the photographic process, was something I needed reminding of the night I saw his work. It’s easy to forget about things like film at a film festival. Most of the films at Toronto were projected digitally, their origins increasingly inscrutable in this age of […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2010 Filmmaking
HELLO, WORLD: EMERGING NARRATIVE FILMMAKER MARC MAURINO, PART 2

Hello there. My name is Marc Maurino, as the byline indicates, and close watchers of this blog might remember that a few days ago there was a post entitled “Why I’m Looking For a Producer at Independent Film Week.” That post just dove into what I’m looking for in a producer and was scant on background information about myself, because it actually started life as a letter I wrote to Filmmaker magazine editor Scott Macaulay a few weeks ago, in response to his query in one of his editor’s letters about an upcoming article for the magazine (yes, I sometimes […]

By Marc Maurino on Sep 19, 2010 Filmmaking
INTERACTING WITH “THE SOCIAL NETWORK”

Here’s the interactive version of the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network.

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 18, 2010 Filmmaking
SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010 Filmmaking
PRODUCING ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS, PART TWO

Below is the second blog post from Katie Holly, producer of One Hundred Mornings, winner of the Workbook Project’s Discovery and Distribution Award. It begins a one-week run today at L.A.’s Downtown Independent. As I mentioned in my last post One Hundred Mornings was made as part of the Catalyst scheme, which was established to give writers, directors and producers a chance to make their first feature. Essentially it was a competition, and three winning films were given a chance to make a movie, fully financed and with additional production support provided in the form of mentorship. The mentorship element […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010 Filmmaking

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