Filmmaking

A VIDEO FROM HAITI’S CINE INSTITUTE: "PRIERE," BY MANNASENA CESAR

Another video from the Cine Institute, a film school in Jaclem, Haiti. “Priere” (Prayer) by Manassena Cesar from Ciné Institute on Vimeo. See this blog post for our reporting on the Cine Institute as well as for links you can go to to help.

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 16, 2010 Filmmaking
THE NEW YORK TIMES COVERS DIY DISTRIBUTION

I just caught up with this Manohla Dargis piece from the New York Times published on the 14th. What she writes about — the DIY and hybrid distribution distribution strategies espoused by Peter Broderick and Jon Reiss as well as the current discussion about transmedia — will be familiar to readers of Filmmaker, but it’s still interesting to see them covered now in the Times. From the piece, titled “Declaration of Indies: Just Sell it Yourself!”: The new D.I.Y. world is open-source in vibe and often execution. Participants refer to one another in conversation and on their Web sites and […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 16, 2010 Filmmaking
THE COVE WINS AT THE CINEMA EYE AWARDS

Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove was the big winner at the Cinema Eye Awards, which were held tonight at the Times Center in midtown Manhattan. The film won the Oustanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Filmmaking Award as well as the Production and Cinematography Awards. A complete list of the awards follows. 2010 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking: Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos, produced by Paula DuPre Pesman and Fisher Stevens Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film:October Country, directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher Outstanding Achievement in Direction:Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes Outstanding […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2010 Filmmaking
THE CINE INSTITUTE COVERS THE CRISIS IN HAITI

Recently in Filmmaker Melissa Silvestri wrote about the Cine Institute in Haiti in this short report: India has Bollywood, and Nigeria has Nollywood, two examples of international film industries that have thrived outside of Hollywood, and soon, perhaps, Haiti can be added to that list. In the port city of Jacmel, considered the cultural capital of Haiti and home to many writers, painters and poets, is the Ciné Institute, which is steadily instilling film schools in the country’s young film students. The school had its origins as a film festival in 2004. The Festival Film Jacmel, founded by filmmaker David […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2010 Filmmaking
THE TEASER FOR SCORSESE’S BOARDWALK EMPIRE

On HBO this fall with a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese…

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 14, 2010 Filmmaking
GRAPHIC NOVEL CO. TOP SHELF, BREGMAN AND JOHNSON PACT

From a press release I just received: Co-Publishers Chris Staros and Brett Warnock of independent graphic novel and comic book publisher Top Shelf Productions announced today that it has entered into a capital investment deal with new media entrepreneur John S. Johnson, and independent film producer Anthony Bregman. Johnson, and Likely Story, Bregman’s film production company, have purchased a 33% interest in Top Shelf Productions, Inc. Johnson will join the board of Top Shelf, and Likely Story will get a first-look deal for all new Top Shelf publications for possible film and TV development. The first project slated for development […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 13, 2010 Filmmaking
A PARK CITY DATE WITH JON REISS

I received the following email from Jon Reiss detailing an offer he’s making to filmmakers. Jon is a wealth of knowledge about all matters related to DIY and hybrid distribution, and I hope folks decide to take him up on the below. As some of you might know, one of the reasons that I wrote Think Outside the Box Office was after those first Filmmaker articles I wrote in Fall ‘08 about my experiences distributing my graffiti doc Bomb It, many filmmakers contacted me to help them with their films. However they were all broke, as most filmmakers are. The […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 12, 2010 Filmmaking
REMEMBERING ERIC ROHMER, 1920 – 2010

Eric Rohmer, the New Wave filmmaker who made intimate, conversational films exploring deep moral and ethical themes with a simple elegance, died today in Paris at the age of 89. Like many of his colleagues in the French film movement, Rohmer began his career as a film critic, eventually becoming the editor of Cahiers du Cinema. Although he made his first feature in 1959, he became more widely known to international audiences in the late ’60s and ’70s, beginning with his Six Moral Tales, a series of six films which included his acclaimed My Night at Maude’s, Claire’s Knee, and […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 11, 2010 Filmmaking
MATT ZOLLER SEITZ ON ZACHARY OBERZAN’S ONE-MAN RAMBO RETHINK

I’ve been hearing about Zachary Oberzan’s no-budget unauthorized adaptation of David Morrell’s First Blood (the basis for the Rambo movie series) from one of our writers, Lauren Wissot, for some time. Staged entirely in Oberzan’s apartment and featuring the director in every part, the film was called by Michael Atkinson in the Village Voice as “the best movie of 2010.” And, over at Hammer to Nail, Brandon Harris has praised the film too. He writes: David Cronenberg once said that as long as you have good sound, movie audiences can be compelled to watch anything. Zachary Oberzan’s Flooding With Love […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 10, 2010 Filmmaking
MOVIE ART AND ARCHITECTURE: ALEX ROMAN’S THE THIRD & THE SEVENTH

The online video of the moment is Alex Roman’s The Third & the Seventh — so much so that Roman’s own site, which I was going to link to, is down due to bandwidth excess. (It redirects to the Vimeo video below, but rather than watching here, go to Vimeo and resize to HD and see it full-screen.) The video is described by Roman as “a FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” In other words, what you are […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 9, 2010 Filmmaking

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