Filmmaking

PORTERFIELD’S PUTTY HILL PREMIERES IN BERLIN

Baltimore director Matt Porterfield’s (Hamilton) latest film Putty Hill premieres this month at the Berlin Film Festival’s Forum. On the film’s nicely-done website, Porterfield describes coming up with a five-page treatment that would use 15 locations when financing for a larger project, Metal Gods, fell through. About the result, he writes: Putty Hill is not quite like anything I’ve ever seen. On a most basic level, it is an amalgam of traditional forms of documentary and narrative realism. But it is an approach to realism in opposition to the anthropological, lyrical, and romantic currents present in most of the genre. […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 6, 2010 Filmmaking
A DIFFERENT KIND OF 3D MONSTER MOVIE

Okay, it’s not Avatar, but if you have a pair of those old red and blue cardboard glasses lying around you can check out Gray Miller’s proposal for Sea Monster, which is being billed as a “3D stereoscopic web series exploring new film grammar.” He’s raising money for the “pulp sci-fi hard science mix” through Kickstarter and is about a third of the way towards his $5,000 goal with 37 days left. From his proposal: We’re launching a sci-fi 3-D web series inspired by Moby Dick. It’s designed to be shot in our own DIY stereoscopic 3-D, around Coney Island […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 6, 2010 Filmmaking
JONATHAN GOODMAN LEVITT ON BIG ART, LITTLE DEBT

In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Here is Jonathan Goodman Levitt’s. What strategies did you employ to stay no/low debt during your production? I’ve had to take on a lot of more roles myself than would be ideal for the film, or for me personally. Life has been pretty much on-hold […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 6, 2010 Filmmaking
DAN COGAN ON BIG ART, LITTLE DEBT

In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Dan Cogan of Impact Partners. What drives most filmmakers, and especially documentary filmmakers, is their deep passion to tell a story. It’s not about money or about a career for many filmmakers — it’s about the story. This is very […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 5, 2010 Filmmaking
THE NEW BREED EXPLORES THE SOLUTIONS, PART 2

In the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project, here’s part 2 on the subject of exploring solutions: SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 2 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo. Watch New Breed videos.

By Jason Guerrasio on Feb 5, 2010 Filmmaking
THE SUPER BOWL… THROUGH YOUR FAVORITE DIRECTOR’S EYES

With Super Bowl Sunday a few days away you may be getting ready by watching the old NFL Films of Super Bowls past. But how would they come out if they were directed by famous filmmakers? The Herzog one is my favorite.

By Jason Guerrasio on Feb 4, 2010 Filmmaking
2010 SXSW LINEUP ANNOUNCED

The South by Southwest Film Festival unveiled its lineup for this year’s fest, which will take place in Austin, Texas March 12-20. Out of the 119 titles shown this year some of the highlights will be the opening night film, fanboy fav Kick-Ass, as well as Mark and Jay Duplass’s Cyrus, Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine, Michel Gondry’s The Thorn in the Heart and Bernard Rose’s Mr. Nice (pictured). The full list of films are below. HEADLINERS CyrusDirectors and Screenwriters: Jay and Mark DuplassWith John’s social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Feb 4, 2010 Filmmaking
THOMAS WOODROW ON BIG ART, LITTLE DEBT

In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Thomas Woodrow, producer, Bass Ackwards. With the current environment/budgets you are seeing, do think there will be more financing gaps than usual? If yes, do you think this might create an uptick in personal debt (both for you and the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 4, 2010 Filmmaking
THE NEW BREED EXPLORES THE SOLUTIONS IN PARK CITY

Here’s the latest in the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project. The official word: SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 1 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo. Watch all New Breed videos.

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 4, 2010 Filmmaking
MYNETTE LOUIE ON BIG ART, LITTLE DEBT

In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Mynette Louie, producer, Children of Invention. With the current environment/budgets you are seeing, do think there will be more financing gaps than usual? If yes, do you think this might create an uptick in personal debt (both for you and […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 3, 2010 Filmmaking

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