Filmmaking

Nicholas Rombes Goes Into the Splice

If you remember my interview with Nicholas Rombes about his “10/40/70” series at The Rumpus a while back, you’ll know that I am a big fan of his original approach to film writing. Over at The Rumpus he looks at film through a deliberately tightened lens — examining a movie by only considering the scenes occurring at the 10, 40 and 70 marks. So, I was thrilled when Nicholas (pictured) subsequently proposed a new column for Filmmaker. It’s called “Into the Splice,” and it debuts today. (And, no, it’s not about editing.) In this series, Nicholas writes about the pleasures […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2010 Columns
WHY I’M LOOKING FOR A PRODUCER AT INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK

I produced my last short, which, with a cast/crew of 20, paying almost everyone, camera package out of L.A., film from NYC, housing and feeding everyone for five days, etc… — nearly killed me. So I’m clear on the fact that while I’ll likely take (and earn) a producer credit on my first feature, I desperately want someone who is going to take over the management of the project and someone who is going to nurture me. The biggest problem I found with self-producing is that I couldn’t take the time for myself as an artist to regroup and center […]

By Marc Maurino on Sep 17, 2010 Filmmaking
CONOR HORGAN ON POST-APOCALYPSE AND ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS

Here’s the first of two blog posts from writer/director Conor Horgan, whose One Hundred Mornings received the Workbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award and runs beginning this week at Los Angeles’s Downtown Theater. — S.M. There’s an old saying, that you should write what you know. I think you should also write about what scares you, and the world we’ve created in One Hundred Mornings scares the hell out of me. As we prepare for our week of screenings at the Downtown Theater, I’m reflecting on some of the real-life inspirations for the film, and what motivated me to make […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 16, 2010 Filmmaking
IFC TAKES “HARVEY WEINSTEIN PROJECT”

In a release today, IFC Films has announced they have acquired the worldwide rights (excluding Canada) to Barry Avrich‘s documentary, Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project. The release touts the film as a “powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred account that traces Weinstein’s path from concert promoter on the cold streets of Buffalo to his first trip to the Cannes Film Festival, where he arrived with one pair of pants and closed his first movie deal, to winning an Oscar, and breaking the bank with his first $100 million film. It examines his complex relationships with his brother, his staff, and the Hollywood community […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Sep 16, 2010 Filmmaking
MARK ROMANEK DISCUSSES NEVER LET ME GO

I love Mark Romanek’s new Never Let Me Go (opening this weekend) and will have some thoughts — not a review, I decided — about and inspired by the film on the site this week. Jamie Stuart spoke to the director here on Tuesday in a big theater with red seats. Below is his take on the man on that day. You can download the video here.

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 16, 2010 Filmmaker Videos
TORONTO: NATIONAL INQUIRER: ERROL MORRIS AND “TABLOID”

I admit a certain obsession with cell phone Scrabble, the band Beach House, and of course, Errol Morris. While the first two are relatively recent acquisitions, that last one has been around for a while (since Cannes 2003 to be exact, and an interview on his film The Fog of War). Morris’ goofy sense of humor remains as addictive as his philosophical and cinematic wanderings. With his latest documentary, Tabloid, my obsession with Morris and his obsessions—in this case, an obsessive beauty queen and the reporters obsessed with her—has reached new heights. While you’re waiting with bated breath for Tabloid to […]

By Livia Bloom Ingram on Sep 16, 2010 Filmmaking
INSIDE INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK

With IFP‘s Independent Film Week starting on Sunday we wanted to share with you the new names you’ll see on our blog in the days ahead. These people have projects in the Project Forum and will be giving you a first-person account of what goes on at IFW. They include: Emerging Narrative Marc Maurino (Inside the Machine) Steve Collins (The Garden) Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman (Pretty To Think So) Spotlight on Docs Joshua Z Weinstein (Off Duty) Sandra Jaffe (Our Mockingbird) No Borders Ryan Koo and Zak Lieberman (3rd Rail) Peter Sterling (The Restoration) Labs Chris Ohlson (Melvin) Felix […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Sep 15, 2010 Filmmaking
PRODUCING ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS, PART ONE

I was one of the judges for this year’s Wookbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award, which grants one lucky film a week-long theatrical run in L.A. with social media, street team and PR support. That run begins this week, September 16, at the Downtown Independent Theater, and the film is Connor Horgan’s character-based post-apocalyptic drama, One Hundred Mornings. All this week we’ll have blog posts from producer Katie Holly and Horgan here at Filmmakermagazine.com. Below is Holly’s first post on the producing of the film. — Scott Macaulay One Hundred Mornings was made for a tenth of the budget that […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 15, 2010 Filmmaking
HERZOG AND MORRIS TALK IN TORONTO

“It’s so strange we remain friends,” said Errol Morris at one point in his dialogue with fellow director Werner Herzog at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday. During their hour-long conversation at the new Bell Lightbox, the two men spoke of many things — filmmaking, of course, but also reading, music, the Warren Commission report, and actors vs. non-actors (Morris: “In my more spurious moments I’ve said that the main difference between SAG actors and real people is that real people can act”). But mostly they engaged in a kind of digressive contemplation inflected by occasional bouts of one-upmanship — […]

By Scott Macaulay on Sep 15, 2010 Filmmaking
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: IN A BETTER WORLD

More than any filmmaker in recent memory, the Danish director Susanne Bier examines familial breakdown with an eye toward rupture in the larger social order. In After the Wedding (2006), the protagonist operated a charity in India but his domestic life was in complete disarray. Now, in the powerful In a Better World, written by her longtime collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen, and which just had its world premiere in Toronto, the main adult character, Anton (the sensational Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt), is a doctor who spends much of his time in Africa (it could be Darfur) treating the maltreated in […]

By Howard Feinstein on Sep 14, 2010 Filmmaking

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