Filmmaking

WINTER ISSUE ONLINE

Click here to read select stories from the Winter issue. Terry Gilliam talks about his new film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; Tom Ford discusses his debut feature, A Single Man; Don Argott highlights what’s considered the heist of the century in The Art of the Steal. Also, Esther B. Robinson weights risk vs. responsibility while making your films; Shari Carpenter highlights a software for script supervisors, ScriptE; Jon Reiss tells us how to choose a fulfillment house and the need for awareness about digital archiving. Plus, Anthony Kaufman‘s Industry Beat & Lance Weiler‘s Culture Hacker columns.

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2010 Filmmaking
A Recipe for No-Budget Filmmaking

A recipe for no-budget filmmaking might go something like this: gather no more than a baker’s dozen of crew members, a half dozen actors, a large helping of friends and family, and a lighting/camera/sound equipment package smaller than half the size of a cargo van. Fill the other half with set dressing, props, wardrobe, unit supplies, and craft service and load into a smattering of free locations of varying shapes and sizes. Roll camera, repeat up to 1,000 times or until you run out of time, money and hard drive space. Total prep time – 4 weeks. Total shooting time […]

By Karin Chien on Jan 17, 2010 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

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