Filmmaking

TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCE PROJECTS FOR ALL ACCESS

Tribeca Film Institute today announced the selected projects for Tribeca All Access (TAA). TAA is designed to help foster and nurture relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities. Celebrating its sixth year, Tribeca All Access will present 27 new projects during the six-day event taking place April 20 – 25 during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, held from April 22 – May 3. This year’s TAA jury is comprised of respected industry professionals – actors, writers, producers and directors – who will review script excerpts and work samples prior to the Festival, and deliberate over the […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Mar 23, 2009 Filmmaking
ALEXANDER THE LAST FILMMAKERS IN PERSON TONIGHT AT THE IFC

If you missed Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last on screen at SXSW last week (the only place, actually, where you could have seen iit on screen), then join Swanberg and stars Jess Weixler and Amy Seimetz at the IFC Center in New York tonight for what will be a rare public screening of the film. I say “rare” because the film is already screening on IFC’s On Demand and with that being the case many regional festivals will likely take a pass on the movie. Filmmaker‘s Alicia Van Couvering, who wrote for us in 2007 what I still think is […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 23, 2009 Filmmaking
NEW YORK FILM COMMUNITY MOBILIZES IN SUPPORT OF TAX CREDITS

As the clock winds down, members of the New York City film production community are lobbying hard for the continuation of the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit, which has supported a boom in film and television production in New York. Once financing is in place, film production companies can start on a dime, quickly crewing up and supporting local vendors, restaurants, hotels and other businesses. They often attract investment capital from outside the state and even outside the country, and they are swift tools of job creation. Furthermore, when it comes to television production, these jobs stay within the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 23, 2009 Filmmaking
THOUGHTS ON FREE, DIGITAL FILM MARKETS, AND THE DEATH OF NEWSPAPERS

Kudos to Noah Harlan for braving the tape-recorded audio wilds of the breakfast conversation I took part in at SXSW this past week. At the festival CinemaTech’s Scott Kirsner gathered myself, Ted Hope, Lance Weiler, Brian Chirls, Liz Rosenthal, Brett Gaylor and Caitlin Boyle for a morning roundtable in which he asked us what had been on our mind while attending the festival. Each of us spoke for a few minutes and then there was a group discussion. As Harlan notes, the audio quality is poor, and I think an edited version, which I hope one of us can put […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 22, 2009 Filmmaking
DAVID LOWERY POSTS HIS ST. NICK SCREENPLAY

One of the best received narrative films at SXSW this past week was David Lowery’s St. Nick, his subtle tale of two children making their way through their world mysteriously on their own. Alicia Van Couvering interviewed Lowery for Filmmaker here, and David Hudson rounds up reaction from the blogosphere here, but over at his own blog, Drifting, the writer/director posts the screenplay as a PDF download. Writes Lowery: A few weeks ago, I read over the film’s final shooting script for the first time since production, and was surprised to find it even more exiguous than I remembered. It […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 22, 2009 Filmmaking
SPIKE JONZE’S SKATEBOARD APOCALYPSE

Director Spike Jonze has returned to music videos with a clip for UNKLE entitled “Heaven.” It’s a gorgeously shot slo-mo return to Jonze’s skateboarding days that crescendos with… well, I won’t spoil it any more than the below statement from UNKLE’s MySpace page (and the screen grab) already does. “Heaven” was used in the acclaimed skate film Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots that shows the Lakai skateboarding team demonstrating their considerable skills as they navigate through and around various exploding obstacles. With […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 20, 2009 Filmmaking
"25 NEW FACES" PICKS THE NEISTAT BROTHERS SELL SERIES TO HBO

Casey and Van Neistat, who Filmmaker picked as part of our 2006 “25 New Faces” selections of up-and-coming talent, have had their independently produced autobiographical series bought by HBO. According to Variety, which reported the story, the series is exec produced by Tom Scott, founder of the Nantucket Nectars juice company as well as the Plum TV network. In the Filmmaker piece, Matt Ross detailed the brothers’ early career, the full text of which can be found at the link: The Neistats began making films in 2000 with the purchase of two iMac DVs, and their early projects involved reworking […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 18, 2009 Filmmaking
SXSW FIRST PERSON: THE EYES OF ME DIRECTOR KEITH MAITLAND

A couple of weeks before the festival, Filmmaker reached out to directors with films in the festival to offer them space to recount the making and mission of their movies. Below is a response we received from Keith Maitland, whose documentary, The Eyes of Me, premieres at the festival today. How do they see the movie, if they can’t see at all? The Eyes of Me follows four blind teens over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, TX. I didn’t know much about blind people before I decided to dive into […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 18, 2009 Filmmaking
@SXSW: FREE IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR…

Long Tail author and Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book, Free, isn’t out until June, but SXSW attendees got a taste at Anderson’s closing keynote at this year’s interactive conference. By now, many are familiar with the gist of Anderson’s argument, which is that the internet drives the marginal cost of digital goods to zero, which means that the price of these goods also is driven down to zero. “Free is the animal force of digital economics,” Anderson said. Furthermore, he said, “If you have not made your product free, piracy will do it for you.” However, that doesn’t mean […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 18, 2009 Filmmaking
@SXSW: RICK LINKLATER AND TODD HAYNES IN CONVERSATION

Two filmmakers born out of the early ‘80s independent film movement, Todd Haynes and Rick Linklater, shared a casual, free-flowing conversation that ranged from New Queer Cinema to Tarkovsky to strategies for staying creatively alive at SXSW on Tuesday. There was no stated theme, so Linklater briefly discussed the genesis of his Me and Orson Welles, Haynes talked a bit about I’m Not There, but mostly they just shared common experiences of being directors having had early success in what now seems like the boom era of independent moviemaking. Of the New Queer Cinema, Haynes said, “Because I lived in […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 18, 2009 Filmmaking

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