Filmmaking

STEFAN NADELMAN’S RAMONA FALLS VIDEO

Back in 2003 we selected Stefan Nadelman for our “25 New Faces” on the basis of his excellent short, Terminal Bar. I hadn’t kept up with Nadelman to see what he’s been doing since until I came across this recent video for the band Ramona Falls. Check in out — it has some of the same antique beauty as that earlier, amazing short.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 26, 2009 Filmmaking
WISHING OUR READERS A HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND NEW YEAR!

Best wishes to all of our readers — hope you all have happy and safe holidays, and see you later on the weekend or early next week back here on the blog. Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 25, 2009 Filmmaking
WORKBOOK PROJECT ON THE YEAR IN TECH, LONGWORTH GOES TO L.A. WEEKLY

A couple of quick links here. First, congratulations to critic (and occasional Filmmaker contributor) Karina Longworth, who becomes the new film editor at the L.A. Weekly. I’ll miss seeing her here in New York City, but I’m happy that I’ll be able to read her regularly via the Weekly. She replaces Scott Foundas, who became the Associate Program Director at Lincoln Center. Second, a link to Filmmaker columnist Lance Weiler’s always essential the Workbook Project, which is just a little bit more essential this week with its “2009 in Tech and Entertainment” podcast. If you want a crash course on […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 24, 2009 Filmmaking
THINKING ABOUT APPLE’S TABLET AND THE FUTURE OF MAGAZINES

With the Financial Times reporting that Apple will announce their long-awaited tablet on Tuesday, January 26, it is time for all of us in the magazine business to think seriously about digital versions of our content. (Well, of course, the major publishers I’m sure have already done this — expect to see tablet-ready versions of a number of major publications announced alongside the device.) Filmmaker has offered a digital edition for about a year now, and it’s a great deal because for half the price you get every issue as well as all back issues through 2005. It mimics the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 24, 2009 Filmmaking
A LETTER FROM THE IFP

I am reprinting below a letter I received from Joana Vicente, Acting Director of the IFP, which publishes this magazine. Please consider joining the IFP and taking part in its activities over the coming year. It has been a time of many changes in the independent film scene; both scary and exciting. Through it all, independent filmmakers of all stripes keep pushing forward, making great work that moves, inspires, and amuses countless people around the world. It has been a year of changes at IFP as well. After 12 years at IFP’s helm, Executive Director, Michelle Byrd, stepped down to […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2009 Filmmaking
SAVE OUR 181 FILM PRODUCTION INCENTIVES!

Perhaps you’ve gotten into the habit of phoning your elected representatives about issues like, I don’t know, health care… Well, if you are a working film producer you might add one more call to your phone sheet. Section 181, which allows investors to write off the cost of film production in the first year of expenditure, has been a real incentive to the independent film business over the last few years. It is due to expire December 31, but there is a possibility it will be extended. The extension vote has passed the House and is now waiting Senate passage […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2009 Filmmaking
THE ALIEN SEX OF AVATAR

I haven’t seen Avatar yet, and I’m waiting to discover why a film in which not a single clip I’ve seen so far thrills me is going to rock my world. But I love these ten random notes on the film by Anne Billson over at her Multiglom blog. Like this one on technology and alien sex: James Cameron has developed millions of dollars’ worth of technology in order to deliver the message that technology is bad. Crazy guy! Basically, he’s a techno geek who’s emotionally stuck at adolescence. His idea of alien sex is sloppy kissing! It’s alien sex […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2009 Filmmaking
QUOTES FROM THE MELTDOWN

Anthony Kaufman’s current Village Voice piece, “New York’s Independent Film Community Goes from Boom to Bust: My Big Fat Greek Collapse,” has some good quotes that speak to the changes the indie film world has gone through this past decade. I’m not one to periodize things too much by saying that things were once X and now they are Y. Independent film has always been too multi-headed a hydra, and the business plans that a distributor talks about were often ones that didn’t have much to do with the majority of actual makers. That said, on decade’s end it’s clear […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2009 Filmmaking
BASS ACKWARDS ANNOUNCES ITS POST-SUNDANCE VIRAL RELEASE

A while back, I posted a call to filmmakers to let us know about any alternative marketing or distribution efforts they are planning around their Sundance selections. With this video by Bass Ackwards producer Thomas Woodrow, the grand total of filmmakers doing this seems to be… two. Watch Woodrow’s walk and talk as he explains why he has partnered with Zipline Entertainment and New Video to release his Sundance picture February 1.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2009 Filmmaking
LEARNING GOOGLE WAVE FROM PULP FICTION

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2009 Filmmaking

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