Filmmaking

17th ANNUAL GOTHAM AWARDS ANNOUNCED

IFP announced today that the 17th Annual Gotham Awards will be held on Tuesday, November 27th in New York and have moved the location to Steiner Studios. They also announced three of this year’s Gotham Awards Tributes: actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Love in the Time of Cholera, Before Night Falls), filmmaker Mira Nair (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!) and film industry veteran Jonathan Sehring, President of IFC Entertainment. IFP will also collaborate with some of New York’s leading cultural organizations for the first time to present retrospectives of the Tribute individuals in the two weeks […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 19, 2007 Filmmaking
CHINATOWN FILM PROJECT KICKOFF PARTY

The Museum of Chinese in Americas (MoCA), with New York’s premiere event promoters, Elements Nightlife, will be celebrating the launch of the MoCA’s Chinatown Film Project this Saturday at Jade Terrace in NYC. Hosting the event are actors Sung Kang, of the upcoming Undoing and previously of 2 Fast 2 Furious and Roger Fan, of the upcoming Finishing the Game and previously of Annapolis. Special guests include Chris Chan Lee, director of Undoing and Phil Yu of AngryAsianMan.com. Proceeds from the event will benefit MoCA/Chinatown Film Project. The Chinatown Film Project is a three-part film and interactive media program that […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 18, 2007 Filmmaking
SUMMER ISSUE IS UP!

Check out the main page to read some of the stories we have in our Summer issue, which hits stands this week. Some highlights include the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, a Q&A with Rescue Dawn’s Werner Herzog, a pair of great docs, Charles Ferguson’s No End In Sight and Jason Kohn’s Manda Bala, and Jamie Stuart takes a look at Final Cut Studio 2. Also, check out the short he made with the help of FCS2, 12.5 Seconds Later…. Another added feature we’ve begun is our Load & Play section where the editors and writers of Filmmaker give […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 17, 2007 Filmmaking
CURATION IS KING!

In an effort to distinguish its site from the anything-goes mentality of YouTube, Sony Pictures is relaunching video-sharing site Grouper by renaming it Crackle, creating “themed channels” and adding a curatorial slant. Says this story on MSNBC: The website will offer a slate of themed channels for users to upload material. They include Wet Paint, an edgy animation channel, Shorts, highlighting short films, and High Wire, a stand-up comedy channel. The best High Wire submissions can win a chance to perform at the well-known Improv comedy clubs, while Shorts uploaders could win a studio development deal and get the chance […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 16, 2007 Filmmaking
POP SHOTS

Variety recently ran an article about how declining opinions of America’s behavior worldwide are affecting international audience’s attitudes towards American films. But perhaps international audiences are simply reacting to artfully crafted image campaigns promoting our competition. See, for example, the promo reel below that the E.U. Media program created to tout its accomplishments in the promotion of Euro films.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 12, 2007 Filmmaking
STRIKING OUT

Jamie Stuart emailed a question about the upcoming writer’s strike, wondering whether it will provide opportunities for independents looking for both work and to expand the boundaries of network programming. He wrote: Since the last TV strike (or was it threatened strike?) brought about reality TV, what’s the probability that the studios and networks will simply dive into the pool of cheap online talent to fill out their rosters? I dunno… discuss.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 12, 2007 Filmmaking
MUST SEE TV

If you missed it, below is Michael Moore’s outraged appearance on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show. After watching, check out Moore’s web site for his rejoinder to the report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Sicko that CNN preceded Moore’s appearance with.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 12, 2007 Filmmaking
YOU’RE NO DUMMY

BoingBoing documents an eccentric patent war in this post about two companies facing off over the right to rent inflatable dummies for movie crowd scenes. It starts with this story on CNN by Elizabeth Wright: You’ve seen them in Million-Dollar Baby, Be Cool, and Ocean’s 13: stands crammed with spectators cheering for the hero. But in the movies, sometimes not even the extras are real. To cut costs, filmmakers dress up inflatable vinyl torsos to intersperse among real people in crowd scenes. Now the two startups in the market are squaring off in court. Crowd in a Box (crowdinabox.com), which […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 11, 2007 Filmmaking
WHAT THE BOYS DO

Mary Pols has assembled some good directors who have offered some great quotes in her piece entitled “They’re Women, Directors and Few.” It’s another piece on why there are so few working female directors in Hollywood, and Pols has brought together indies like Hilary Brougher and Nicole Holofcener with studio vets like Mimi Leder to discuss why. She also talks with Kasi Lemmons, whose Talk to Me (pictured) opens this week. Here’s a section in which Sherrybaby director Laurie Collyer talks about the differences in approach that men and women have: But women in the film industry aren’t held back […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 11, 2007 Filmmaking
Renew Media Celebrates 20 Years

Initially it might appear that filmmakers Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) and Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation) have little in common with directors Kelly Reichardt or Rob Epstein. Caouette’s intensely self-referential experimental documentary footage or Reggio’s dreamlike visual-image essays differ considerably from Reichardt’s well-received narrative feature Old Joy or Epstein’s award-winning political documentaries. Behind the scenes, however, these filmmakers and nearly 500 more have obtained funding and support from the nonprofit organization Renew Media (formerly known as National Video Resources), established in 1990 by the Rockefeller Foundation to administer the annual Media Arts Fellowships. In 2003 Renew Media assumed full responsibility for managing the […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 10, 2007 Filmmaking

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