Filmmaking

JON REISS TELLS YOU HOW TO SURVIVE AS A FILMMAKER

Jon Reiss’s piece on self-distributing his feature Bomb It in the current issue of Filmmaker is testament to his abilities as a smart DIY filmmaker. A couple of links crossed my screen this morning related to Jon, and both offer more ways you can get information from him that will help you and your films. First, Jon has joined Mindshare, the relatively new consulting service offered through the Workbook Project. Visit the page to read more about Jon and other members of the Mindshare team and how you can access their expertise. Second, on his own blog Jon Reiss writes […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 3, 2008 Filmmaking
CONGRATS TO THE GOTHAM WINNERS

Congrats to all the Gotham Award winners receiving awards last night. I was really happy to see Filmmaker cover-story Frozen River take the Best Feature, and I was also glad to see Trouble the Water, which we’ve covered in our magazine too, take Best Doc. Lance Hammer’s Ballast nod for Breakthrough Director, and the ensemble tie to Synecdoche, New York and Vicky Christina Barcelona were well deserved too. Finally, as noted below, we were happy to award the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater award to Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley’s indescribable, charming and completely original animation that […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 3, 2008 Filmmaking
GOTHAM BEST FEATURE

Marisa Tomei and Michelle Williams present the award to … “Frozen River.” More later, tonight or tomorrow, when I am not restricted to posting on a Blackberry.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
GUS VAN SANT TRIBUTE

Sean Penn presents the Gotham Tribute to Gus Van Sant, one of American independent cinema’s great directors, and he nicely notes that 2008 is the year of not one Van Sant film but two: “Paranoid Park” and “Milk.” Ben Kingsley presents the Gotham tribute to his “Elegy” co-star Penelope Cruz.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
GOTHAM BEST DOC

… “Trouble the Water.”

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

Sheila Nevins thanks the subjects of her docs when receiving a Gotham Tribute. Breakthrough Actor… Melissa Leo.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
GOTHAMS: BEST ENSEMBLE

Best Ensemble is a tie: Synechdoche, New York and Vicki Christina Barcelona.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
GOTHAM LIVEBLOGGING

Apologies for the typos… Live blogging is harder than it looks. Breakthrough Director, presented by Mickey Rourke and Patricia Clarkson, goes to…. Lance Hammer. Melvin Van Peebles now receiving his Tribute Award with a very cool speech.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
GOTHAM LIVEBLOGGING

The evening has just kicked off at Cipriani’s in Wall Street following cocktails at the perhaps appropriately named Museum of Finance across the street. Terrence Howard opened with a performance on acoustic guitar, Michelle Byrd gave her opening remarks and intro’d Aasif Mandvi, the host. (Culinary note: Our table was split on the identity of the opening course, with most calling it an omelette, some calling it a pizza, and others just saying it was pasta.) Mandvi quipped that Jon Stewart was originally asked to host but that he outsourced the gig to him. The first award is Filmmaker‘s award, […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking
LIVE BLOGGING THE GOTHAMS

If you're not attending the Gothams tonight, in addition to the various online updates and Twitter feeds that Jason mentioned below, you can check back to this site where we'll be posting our updates live, as they say, from the heart of the U.S. financial crisis. (The Gothams are being held at Cipriani’s on Wall Street.)

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2008 Filmmaking

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