Filmmaking

THE FILMMAKER MESSAGE BOARDS RELAUNCH

As some of you noticed and commented upon back in the early Summer, our previous message boards fell apart due to rampant spam. We decided to completely raze the boards and start from scratch, and our new boards have just gone up in what we are considering a soft-launch while we work out any unexpected bugs or kinks. If you click over there you’ll see expanded and more specific categories covering the wide range of filmmaking as well as members of our editorial staff answering questions and taking part in the conversation. So, if you are a message-board kind of […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 26, 2009 Filmmaking
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO ASK… THE MESSENGER GETS A DISTRIBUTION DEAL

Proving that sometimes you just have to a) show up and b) ask, writer/director Oren Moverman sent the below email detailing how it came to be that Oscilloscope picked up distribution rights to his Sundance-premiering film, The Messenger. Six months after the film screened in Park City, a distribution deal emerged when Moverman happened to attend an IFP reception held at Deluxe Laboratories in New York to welcome Adam Yauch to its Board of Directors. Around 7.45 that night I met Adam and David Fenkel of Oscilloscope for the first time. I had wine. They told me they liked The […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 25, 2009 Filmmaking
JON FURIE MEMORIAL SERVICE

The production community is stunned by the sudden passing this weekend of well respected Montana Artists senior feature and television agent Jon Furie. A memorial service will be held Thursday, July 23, at 3:00pm at the Large Chapel at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers or gifts, his family is asking that donations be made to Good Beginnings at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 22, 2009 Filmmaking
BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS WANTS YOU

The 8th Berlinale Talent Campus will take place Feb. 13-18, 2010 under the theme “Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People.” Application deadline is Oct. 7. Producers, directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, production designers, film composers, sound designers, film journalists and visual artists from all over the world are invited to apple at, www.berlinale-talentcampus.de. Here’s more from the release: For many filmmakers, teaming up with the right people to inspire and support them and to create a collective vision is the essential element of successful filmmaking. The upcoming Berlinale Talent Campus will tap into these thoughts and ask how […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 21, 2009 Filmmaking
DSLR OUTTAKES

Just posted in our new issue is Roberto Quezada-Dardon’s second article for us about shooting on the new DSLR still cameras. This one is “Pimp your DSLR,” in which Quezada-Dardon looks at some of the new accessories that are being manufactured to bring video camera functionality to these cameras. He also has his own blog, Outtakes, in which he’s posting a lot of great related material, including links to Canon 5D workflows , blog posts on working with HD, and outtakes from the pieces he’s written for Filmmaker, which include extended interviews with filmmakers like Zak Forsman. Recommended.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 21, 2009 Filmmaking
DAVID MUNRO ON THE BURST BUBBLE

I was at a dinner with a number of filmmakers last night and had a long discussion with a fellow producer that verged into all of the things people in the film business discuss today. Namely: how can the distribution platforms that currently exist today (theatrical, video, VOD, etc.) be somehow combined, re-ordered, reconstituted in a way that will enable a more financially beneficial base for independent film production? It is a tough question. I will admit that I’m in the camp that believes that there are potential rewards for the filmmakers willing to put the sweat equity into the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 21, 2009 Filmmaking
SUMMER ISSUE ONLINE

Select stories from the Summer issue are now online. Check out our annual 25 New Faces of Independent Film list. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte talks about his doc, Soul Power. And Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and the rest of the creative team behind the Sundance sensation Humpday talk about the process to make this poignant comedy. Plus, Roberto Quezada-Dardon follows up on his DSLR piece from the Spring issue with a look at the accessories that are bringing video camera functionality to single-lens reflex cameras. Esther B. Robinson looks at the day jobs working filmmakers are doing. And in his […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 20, 2009 Filmmaking
GOING DUTCH AT EL PASO TACQUERIA

On Saturday night an exclusive dinner was hosted for participants to discuss issues involving alternative and arthouse film exhibition. The IFP’s Danielle DiGiacomo was there, and she files this report. On Saturday afternoon, in the sun-drenched backyard of the El Paso Tacqueria on 104th and Lexington, Rooftop Films, Cinereach, and IFF Rotterdam launched both a new partnership and a new form of the “panel discussion.” As white sangria flowed freely and guacamole was savored, several of independent film’s industry leaders and filmmakers and programmers came together to confab about “New Collaborative Models of Film Exhibition.” At least, according to the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2009 Filmmaking
OSCILLOSCOPE FOUNDER ADAM YAUCH TO UNDERGO CANCER TREATMENT

Oscilloscope Pictures founder, Beastie Boy member, and recent IFP Board member addition Adam Yauch has announced that he’ll be undergoing treatment for cancer of the salivary gland. The group is postponing the release of their next album and tour while Yauch and his doctors address this very treatable form of cancer. Everyone at Filmmaker sends our best wishes to Yauch for a speedy recovery.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2009 Filmmaking
THOMAS PYNCHON IN A ’60S KIND OF WAY

I stopped by St. Mark’s Bookshop this afternoon and noted that they are remaining open past midnight on Monday, August 3 (until 12:30) to sell copies of the new Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice, which goes on sale Tuesday. This new Pynchon has snuck up on me — I knew it was coming out but I hadn’t realized so soon. So, Googling I come across the cover, which at first I thought was a joke. It’s got a real Elmore Leonard ’80s design thing going on, or maybe a Carl Hiassen vibe, or, less charitably, as a poster on at […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 19, 2009 Filmmaking

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