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Super 8
1 Webdocs With the official partnership of entities as ahead-of-the-curve as IDFA DocLab and Power to the Pixel, among a dozen others, Belgian director Matthieu Lietaert (whose own online project We R Democracy nabbed the BIPS at Sunny Side of the Doc 2010) has put together an offline guide to navigating the field of Web-based documentaries. Titled Webdocs, it covers everything from crowd sourcing to storytelling in a format that includes interviews with 30 cross-media makers and producers, as well as in-depth analysis of six highly successful webdocs. The book is jam-packed with practical information and advice from those on […]
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Load & Play
Charlotte: A Wooden Boat Story Antidote Films – Available Now “The separation of craft from art and design is one of the phenomena of late-twentieth-century Western culture,” writes Peter Dormer in The Culture of Craft, cited on the website to Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte’s new documentary, Charlotte: A Wooden Boat Story. In his directorial follow-up to Soul Power, Kusama-Hinte (also a producer whose credits include The Kids are All Right and the board chairman of IFP) captures, in loving 16mm, a Martha’s Vineyard boatyard whose work is an elegy to those vanishing values of hand-crafted perfection cited by Dormer. Charlotte follows boat […]
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Hits & Misses
Will 2011 be remembered as the year the indie film biz rebounded after nearly two years of contraction, consolidation and caution? Or was it merely a brief minor upsurge, hardly enough to sustain the numerous companies, executives and filmmakers trying to make a go of it? The beginning of the year started bright, even dazzling. Independent films like Black Swan, The King’s Speech, The Kids Are All Right and Winter’s Bone were big at the Oscars and the box office. And at Sundance, more than 40 films were acquired during and immediately after the fest. It looked like independent films […]
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Industry Beat: Below-the-Lines Blues
Below-The-Line Blues. By Anthony Kaufman
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Culture Hacker: What if 5th Graders Ruled Your Storyworld?
What If 5th Graders Ruled Your Storyworld? By Lance Weiler
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INDUSTRY BEAT: IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY…
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Dawning of the Story Hack
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INDUSTRY BEAT: THE NEW STUDIO INDIES
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The Real World is Still Here
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Culture Hacker: Let’s Take the Audience Outside
Within the space between social networks and our increasingly ubiquitous mobile devices lies a new opportunity for filmmakers.
