Here’s the new episode of The Burg, directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist). Visit the show’s site for more, including previous episodes and behind-the-scenes clips.
Aw man, I am thinking. Last Thursday’s New York Times is up on my computer screen and I’m looking at the virtual front page, just below what would be the fold. The headline: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTE ON THEIR OWN. It’s turf I’ve become increasingly familiar with in the last couple of months since I started plotting a DIY course for my documentary Strongman and I dig in to the article. I don’t get too far before I realize I have a serious problem—Sacha Gervasi took out a second mortgage on his house to pay for the distribution on Anvil. I […]
Saturday, November 7, in Los Angeles Peter Broderick and Scott Kirsner are teaming up for “Distribution U,” a “one-day crash course on the new rules of marketing and distribution.” From their announcement: This one-day course will reveal the techniques successful filmmakers are using to: • Design customized distribution strategies• Harness the Internet and social media to launch their projects• Reach core audiences directly• Maximize revenue from multiple distribution channels• Build a fan base to support your future work This course is designed for independent filmmakers and artists determined to get their work seen widely and earn a real living in […]
With so much press given to Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah in ’08 and ’09 (and all of it for good reason) it’s easy to forget fellow Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo also came out around the same time in both Italy and the U.S. Though not as chilling and much more stylistic and flashy than Garrone’s mafioso epic, both films display the diabolical trifecta of politics, religion and organized crime that has plagued Italy for decades. Il Divo explores the end of the reign of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti (better known in his home papers as the Prince of Darkness, […]
Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple’s Final Cut Studio to create the short Isn’t She?…, an ode to John Hughes that follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to claim unemployment insurance. WATCH short here. Running time: 15:23 Visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com. Learn more about the songs in the short at www.ediesedgwick.biz Read parts 1 & 2 of Jamie’s review of Final Cut Studio. See how Jamie created the visual effects here.
With Ti West‘s latest film The House of the Devil opening this weekend (look out for our interview with him on the site later this week), over at IFC.com his web series Dead & Lonely premiered today. The series stars Justin Rice (Mutual Appreciation) as a guy in search for love on a dating site and Paige Stark (A Relationship in Four Days) as the girl who finds his profile, but she has a secret (okay, the picture gives it away, she’s a vampire). New episodes will be posted on their site all week.
We asked Jamie Stuart to use the newest edition of Apple’s Final Cut Studio to make a short and write up his reaction for our Fall issue. You can read the piece here. But when he got into post he found more things to highlight about FCS so we’ve posted Part 2 of his review in Web Exclusives. And check out the teaser of the short he made at the bottom of the Part 2 piece. Titled Isn’t She?…, it is an homage to John Hughes while commenting on the current state of the economy. We’ll put the short on […]
I met with an online distributor a few months ago who told me about GMX, the Global Media Exchange, saying he thought it was going to revolutionize the film sales business. In short, he described it as an eBay for media content, where film buyers (broadcasters, distributors, etc.) can connect and transact with sellers (studios, production companies, independent producers) within a sophisticated interface set up to deal with the complicated terms of international film licensing agreements. GMX recently launched with over 4,000 titles from such companies as “NBC Universal Global Networks France, London-based ContentFilm’s Fireworks International, U.K.-based On Demand Group, […]
A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about a Brooklyn party I attended for the web production company Dinosaur Diorama and the launch of the latest episode of their hit web series, The Burg. The first new episode in two years, it’s titled “Change,” and is directed by Peter Sollett, of Raising Victor Vargas and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Here’s the teaser, and we’ll post the link when it premieres next week.
It is not uncommon to describe filmmakers as “true artists,” however in the case of Peter Greenaway it is literally the case that he brings an artist’s sensibility to work on the big screen. Born in Newport, Wales, in 1942, Greenaway grew up in London and studied to be a painter at the city’s Walthamstow College of Art. In the late 60s, Greenaway began to explore his fascination with cinema, embarking on a series of documentary short films which he continued throughout the 1970s that set out to capture the peculiarities of the world (or the world from a peculiar […]