In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Dan Cogan of Impact Partners. What drives most filmmakers, and especially documentary filmmakers, is their deep passion to tell a story. It’s not about money or about a career for many filmmakers — it’s about the story. This is very […]
In the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project, here’s part 2 on the subject of exploring solutions: SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 2 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo. Watch New Breed videos.
With Super Bowl Sunday a few days away you may be getting ready by watching the old NFL Films of Super Bowls past. But how would they come out if they were directed by famous filmmakers? The Herzog one is my favorite.
Here’s the latest in the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project. The official word: SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 1 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.
The South by Southwest Film Festival unveiled its lineup for this year’s fest, which will take place in Austin, Texas March 12-20. Out of the 119 titles shown this year some of the highlights will be the opening night film, fanboy fav Kick-Ass, as well as Mark and Jay Duplass’s Cyrus, Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine, Michel Gondry’s The Thorn in the Heart and Bernard Rose’s Mr. Nice (pictured). The full list of films are below. HEADLINERS CyrusDirectors and Screenwriters: Jay and Mark DuplassWith John’s social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a […]
In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Thomas Woodrow, producer, Bass Ackwards. With the current environment/budgets you are seeing, do think there will be more financing gaps than usual? If yes, do you think this might create an uptick in personal debt (both for you and the […]
Here’s the latest in the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project. The official word: SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 1 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo. Watch all New Breed videos.
Ernst Aebi, the subject of Martina Egi’s keenly observed new documentary Barefoot to Timbuktu, is something of a renaissance man. Artist, SoHo real estate pioneer and social activist, he is full of paradoxes: easy going yet driven, humble yet self-assured, a man of much wealth who nonetheless spends his leisure time among the dispossessed. Egi profiles Ernst with affection, but she doesn’t shy away from examining the effects of his restless nature on his family and friends. His often rocky family life, along as his many guises and activities, are only the preamble to Egi’s portrait of the subjects very […]
In the new issue of Filmmaker, Esther Robinson penned “The Big Art/Little Debt Plan,” which discusses the relation of filmmakers to risk, their films, and their money. She reached out to several filmmakers by email, and their responses helped shape her article. We are running several of the responses Esther received here on the blog. Below is the one from Mynette Louie, producer, Children of Invention. With the current environment/budgets you are seeing, do think there will be more financing gaps than usual? If yes, do you think this might create an uptick in personal debt (both for you and […]
Here’s District 9 director Neil Blomkamp’s TED Talk in which he discusses life on other planets and the fate of our human civilization.