Filmmaking

SPC GETS SOUL POWER

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they’ve acquired Jeffrey Levy-Hinte‘s doc Soul Power. Having gotten great reviews at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, I had the privileged of seeing the film at a private screening a few weeks ago and if you’re a fan of R&B of the ’70s and documentaries like Michael Wadleigh‘s Woodstock and Leon Gast‘s When We Were Kings (which Levy-Hinte was an editor on and where the Soul Power footage originated from) then go see this movie. Highlighting the music festival to coincide with the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974, […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Nov 4, 2008 Filmmaking
GET YOUR POPCORN READY (EARLY)

Hopefully you went to the polls this morning because according to The New York Times, who has mapped out your whole Election Night here, networks could be jumping the gun to call the race as early as 8pm(!) Eastern time. An excerpt from the piece: A senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman, said the prospects for Barack Obama or John McCain meeting the minimum threshold of electoral votes could be clear as soon as 8 p.m. — before polls in even New York and Rhode Island close, let alone those in Texas and California. At such a moment, […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Nov 4, 2008 Filmmaking
THE FILMMAKER GUIDE TO ASIA ARGENTO

Filmmaker has been a big fan of Asia Argento — as an actress and a director — over the years, and on the occasion of her BAM retrospective, “Sexy, Scary and Often Naked: Asia Argento,” which opens today, I thought I would throw up some links to our coverage of Argento over the years. Back in 2000 Travis Crawford interviewed Asia about her directorial debut, Scarlet Diva, and the article was illustrated by original Richard Kern photos (one of which I’ve included here). In 2005 Crawford interviewed Asia again in 2005 for her second feature, The Heart is Deceitful Above […]

By Scott Macaulay on Nov 1, 2008 Filmmaking
SHORTSNONSTOP AWARDS BAD HEAD DAY

The Canadian Film Centre and SHORTSNONSTOP Mobile Festival announced this week that this quarter’s best short film is Mexican filmmaker Karen Weiss‘s Bad Head Day. Weiss will be awarded a $1500 cash prize. Launched in 2007, SHORTSNONSTOP is in its second year and awards a $1500 cash prize each quarter to the best short film selected by an international jury. Learn more on how to submit your film, here. Next deadline is Jan. 15. Weiss’s Bad Head Day can be found here.

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 31, 2008 Filmmaking
TOURIN’ WITH RANGELIFE

You may recall Scott’s “Midwestern Rhapsody” post in mid Oct. about Todd Sklar and the other filmmakers who are doing a DIY tour with their film. Here’s another video diary from the guys.

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 30, 2008 Filmmaking
AASIF MANDVI TO HOST GOTHAMS

IFP announced today that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart‘s correspondent Aasif Mandvi will be hosting this year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards on Dec. 2. Named one of our 25 New Faces of Independent Film this year for his upcoming project, 7 to the Palace, which he stars and co-wrote, Mandvi was recently in the Ricky Gervais-starrer Ghost Town and appeared in episodes of The Sopranos and Sex and the City. But he’s best known for his witty fake reporting on The Daily Show and will certainly have a lot of material to play with come Dec. 2. Interesting sidenote: […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 30, 2008 Filmmaking
THE SKY IS JUST FINE, THANK YOU

For those who enjoyed the excerpt we put up of Scott Macaulay‘s roundtable discussion on the current state of independent film from the Fall issue, one of the participants, Ted Hope, was on NHPR’s “Word of Mouth” this week and continued the thinking that he voiced for the magazine and at his keynote address at the Film Independent Filmmaker Forum: the truly free filmmaking community will survive.

By Jason Guerrasio on Oct 30, 2008 Filmmaking
MILK PREMIERES IN SAN FRANCISCO

Executive producer William Horberg attended the premiere of Gus Van Sant’s Milk last night in San Francisco and writes about it on his blog. An excerpt: It was almost 37 years ago that Harvey Milk, the subject of the film, moved to the Castro District from New York City and set up his camera shop there with his boyfriend Scott Smith, at what was to become ground zero in a cultural movement and struggle for respect and equal rights for gay people that, despite the major victories Harvey and his supporters achieved before his untimely assassination, as he became the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2008 Filmmaking
FILMMAKER’S GUIDE TO HALLOWEEN HORROR

For those of you planning a Halloween viewing party, the staff of Filmmaker has compiled thoughts on seven films guaranteed to generate chills. Inside. If you watch a lot of horror films, at a certain point you being to feel that you’ve seen it all. I did… at least until I saw Inside. This French shocker is part of a new wave of Gallic horror that includes films like Haute Tension, Frontieres, Calvaire and Them. For me, it’s the most extreme and transgressive of the bunch, mostly due to its relentless, remorseless elaboration of its queasy premise: a pregnant woman, […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2008 Filmmaking
PLANNING FOR THE BEST CASE FESTIVAL SCENARIO

If you’re one of, probably, about 3,000 feature filmmakers who have submitted your features to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, then you are beginning to think about that best-case scenario: getting in. After the acceptance rush fades, you will realize that the whole process of finishing your film, scheduling the festival, and devising a publicity and marketing plan is a lot of work. To help you out producer Ted Hope, who has a lot of first-hand experience, has been posting this week on this Truly Free Film blog a series of pieces on the different stages of the process. He […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2008 Filmmaking

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