Filmmaking

SHERI CANDLER OFFERS CROWDFUNDING ADVICE

Marketing and publicity specialist Sheri Candler has a post up on her blog entitled “Five Ways to Fail at Crowdfunding” that is a good read for those thinking of kickstarting of gogo’ing their indie feature. She opens: I am prompted to write this post because I have been hit up many times lately about supporting, advising or donating to various crowdfunding initiatives. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t quite a complaint because I have been known to support many campaigns by doing any one of these things (ask anyone else offering their advice if they have done any of these […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 12, 2010 Filmmaking
AARON SORKIN ADDRESSES “SOCIAL NETWORK” SEXISM CHARGES

Amidst the widespread acclaim for David Fincher’s The Social Network have been criticisms that the film is sexist in its depiction of the Harvard social scene and the seemingly all-male world of computer programmers that combined to create Facebook. As Xeni Jardin noted in Boing Boing, the film fails the Bechdel test. Others have asked why screenwriter Aaron Sorkin didn’t create a role for Priscilla Chan, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime girlfriend, who was in the picture (although, apparently, not romantically so) during the timespan of the film. In the Daily Beast, Rebecca Davis O’Brien asked where in the film […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2010 Filmmaking
“NAPOLEON DYNAMITE” GETS ANIMATED

Get ready for awesome drawings, yummy tots and shouts of GOSH and IDIOT because the indie darling Napoleon Dynamite is getting the animation treatment. According to Deadline, Fox has picked up an adaptation of the 2004 hit for six episodes with the film’s writer-director Jared Hess executive producing and star Jon Heder voicing Napoleon.

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 11, 2010 Filmmaking
SAM GREEN, “UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS”

After Sam Green and Dave Cerf premiered their “live documentary” Utopia in Four Movements at Sundance, I wrote the below as part of a Sundance wrap-up at FilmInFocus. Also part of New Frontier was Sam Green and Dave Cerf’s Utopia in Four Movements. In what was billed as a “live documentary,” filmmaker Green, who previously helmed the doc, The Weather Underground, explores a precondition for revolution: a shared vision of utopia. The score was composed and played live by The Quavers (Catherine McCrae, Dennis Cronin, T. Griffin, and Cerf), and Green did live voiceover over film clips and slides. Recalling […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2010 Filmmaking
SHANE HURLBUT’S HDSLR CAMERA PROTOCOL

D.P. Shane Hurlbut has been active in both HDSRL shooting and also, through his blog, HDSLR instruction. Check out this recent video outlining a D.P.’s camera protocol when shooting with these cameras. Hurlbut Visuals Camera Protocol from Shane Hurlbut, ASC on Vimeo. (Hat tip: Photocine News.)

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2010 Filmmaking
BANKSY STORYBOARDS AND DIRECTS “THE SIMPSONS”

Artist Banksy, whose Exit to the Gift Shop is one of the best films of the year, storyboarded and directed the opening “couch gag” sequence of tonight’s The Simpsons. It references the fact that much of the Simpsons animation is outsourced to South Korea. Check it out.

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2010 Filmmaking
Vimeo Announces Vimeo Awards Winners

The Vimeo Festival + Awards has announced the winners of its first annual competition last night in New York. From the press release: A distinguished panel of judges — including M.I.A., David Lynch, Roman Coppola, Ted Hope, Lucy Walker, and Morgan Spurlock, to name a few — chose the winners from more than 6,500 entries submitted from around the world. Legendary cult Director David Lynch, who judged the Experimental Category of the Festival commented, “The quality of films I watched for the Vimeo Festival was A Number One.” Roman Coppola, film Director and founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 10, 2010 Festivals & Events
BRUCE STERLING @VIMEO FESTIVAL

Characteristically witty and provocative, sometimes curmudgeonly so, author Bruce Sterling closed out this weekend’s Vimeo Festival in New York City with a 50-minute talk titled “Vernacular Video” that began by asking, “Why is Andrea Allen funny?” (Here I will confess that I didn’t know who Andrea Allen is. If you’re like me, I will point you to her Vimeo page and quote Sterling, who called her a “perky, approachable and outgoing 20-something person” who can sometimes look “pensive and deep.” More to the point, she is the Community Manager at Vimeo who started as a user, just like you and […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 9, 2010 Filmmaking
TRAILER WATCH: “BLUE VALENTINE”

Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine opens December 31 and stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Here’s the first trailer from the Weinstein Company.

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 8, 2010 Filmmaking
“BLUE VALENTINE” GETS NC-17

In news that just makes you scratch your head, according the Mike Fleming at Deadline, the MPAA ratings board has given Derek Cianfrance‘s Sundance gem (and Oscar hopeful) Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating. Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple who are on the verge of a divorce, Fleming says the rating was given due to the scene where Gosling and Williams’ characters spend the night in an adult fantasy suite. “They get drunk and their problems intensify when he wants to have sex and she doesn’t, but will to get him off her back. It is […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 8, 2010 Filmmaking

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