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SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES NHK FINALISTS

The Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced the twelve finalists for the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The annual cash award to support new artists in international cinema (winners announced at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival) is celebrating its 13th year with an impressive list of past recipients including: Alex Rivera (The Sleep Dealer), Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Walter Salles (Central Station). The twelve finalists for the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards are: EUROPE Celia Galán Julve / ROSITA GUZMÁN IS ALIVE (Spain) – When dangerous fugitive Rosita Guzmán disappears into […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 7, 2008

THE RETURN OF THE MUSCLES FROM BRUSSELS

Mabrouk El Mechri’s very entertaining genre-buster JCVD opens today, and here we flash you back to the interview with El Mechri that appeared on our site via Filmcatcher during the Toronto Film Festival. To see the interview click here.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 7, 2008

OBAMA AND THE ARTS

A commenter in the thread on Obama and the 181 film tax incentives, below, alerted me to this post on the Art Sake site titled “Obama and the Arts.” Funnily, as someone who works in the arts, Obama’s policy on the arts barely entered my consciousness during the election campaign. There has been so much more to be concerned about. So, after the election, it’s nice to know some details about the ways in which an Obama administration might be good for the arts. Check out the post, which contains a number of good links to related articles and statements […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 7, 2008

CLIP JOINT

Writer, director and producer Nelson George is launching a series of web shorts, and the first, A Barber’s Tale, is completed and posted below. It stars Reg E. Cathey from The Wire and is a beautiful split-screen piece of first-person storytelling.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 7, 2008

REPO MAN

Repo: The Genetic Opera may not have a huge ad budget, but it did score a joke on David Letterman last night. (Something about Paris Hilton and organ harvesting…) Over in our Web Exclusives section, Andre Salas interviews director Darren Lynn Bousman about the film’s marketing challenges, casting Sarah Brightman, shooting on the Genesis, and the benefits of cardboard and plastic sets.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 7, 2008

“BLESS ME FATHER, FOR I DON’T GET SCORSESE”

Roger Ebert has published on his blog a letter from Jamie Stuart about Martin Scorsese and Stuart’s ambivalence towards him. An excerpt: As well, I tended to prefer filmmakers whom I believed had solved the problems laid out for themselves in making their movies. There was always an unmistakable confidence of execution in the work of Coppola or Spielberg or later the Coens. With Scorsese, however, I always saw insecurity: For all their labor, his movies felt fussy like they were never quite finished. You could see the agonizing conflict of decision-making in his craft (something that many people claim […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 6, 2008

Director Darren Lynn Bousman on Repo! The Genetic Opera

Back in 2004, director Darren Lynn Bousman was taking his violent horror script The Desperate to a number of studios, only to be told it was too grisly for mainstream viewers. Enter Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, who loved The Desperate and immediately contacted Bousman about reworking the script into a sequel to their Saw franchise. This began a partnership that saw Bousman direct three successful Saw films in a row. Taking a break from the infamous horror series, Bousman returns with a long gestating labor of love: Repo! The Genetic Opera, a futuristic horror musical based on […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 6, 2008

OBAMA, 181, AND FILM PRODUCTION

Submitted with the caveat that he’s not an expert on tax law, producer Noah Harlan sent the below comment about possible effects of the Obama election on film production incentives. From Harlan: It might be worth noting one of the interesting implications of the election for the film business. The bailout package passed last month included an extension of the section 181 provisions of the federal tax code that allowed investors in qualifying US films to take their investment as an expense against income. For most investors (except those that were full-time film investors) it is specifically against passive income […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 6, 2008

PRINT LIVES… FOR A DAY

Before driving back to New York from Ohio I thought I’d pick up a November 5 Cleveland newspaper for posterity’s sake. It’s something my parents used to do — collect “day of” Washington Posts on all the major election and historical event days. No such luck. Everything was sold out. Oh well, I thought, I’ll just grab a New York Times when I’m back in New York. Again, a strike-out. With declining newspaper circulation recently forboding “the end of print,” November 5th was a one-day counter-cyclical moment. At his Indiewire blog, Eugene Hernandez comments in the form of a video: […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 6, 2008

MORNING AFTER BLOGGING

I’ve been slack on the blogging because I’ve had the good fortune for the past week to have been part of a great group (The Trip2008) campaigning in Ohio for Obama. It was a diverse, smart and charismatic group with quite a few people from the indie film community involved. Among many good things, it was inspiring for me to witness at street-level the Obama campaign’s blend of old-fashioned grass-roots organizing and 21st century internet-driven civic empowerment, and I look forward to carrying some of these thoughts with me in future ponderings about our independent film community. I’ll be more […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 5, 2008

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