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PAY BY THE BYTE

Paul Harrill has a good find over at his Self-Reliant Filmmaking blog. It’s a site that is figuring out a way to raise production funding for web-distributed short-form work. From Paul’s post: A few weeks ago, in an effort to show my students some of the more interesting film and video work being created for the web I discovered Have Money Will Vlog. It’s an ingenious site that helps media artists raise funds to produce their web-distributed videos and films. The project budgets are in the $2000 – $3000 range, and the donations are usually small — $10, $20, and […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 30, 2006

ROAMING PLAN

Here’ s someone — typically, not a narrative feature filmmaker — who has figured out how to build a big audience on YouTube with a series of entertaining no-budget films designed especially for the web. Marco Tempest is a magician who has created a fresh persona quite different from David Blaine and Cris Angel. He presents his tricks as entertaining puzzles which he’ll occasionally let you in on, and his YouTube channel contains dozens of clips made for international television and the Microsoft Network in Japan. In his most popular creations, the PhoneCan Magic series (also available as free videopodcasts […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2006

15 SECONDS

Over at Ain’t it Cool News Moriaty has up a detailed review of David Lynch’s Inland Empire, which the filmmaker is reportedly self-distributing later this year. I missed it at the New York Film Festival and while I heard mixed, Moriaty’s review really got me psyched. But before the review, he relates this anecdote of Lynch using his apartment as an impromptu location a couple of years ago, an evening that yielded about 15 seconds of footage in the finished film: “They told me that they’d be shooting something for Lynch’s website, a short film. I was shocked to see […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2006

TOP RANKED

I don’t know why I’m mentioning this now — we meant to run a blurb in the Summer issue but forgot — but those little numbers that sit next to the different people in our 25 New Faces feature each year… they’re just graphic elements. They don’t mean anything. They let you know we know how to count. We love all of our 25 equally. So filmmakers, enough with the “#7 on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces!” on your C.V.’s!

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2006

TRAUMATIC PURCHASE

While out at the Film Independent Filmmaker Conference, which I’ll write more about hopefully later today, I sat down with filmmaker Lance Weiler and learned more about his very impressive model for self-distributing and marketing his independent films. One of his achievements is to simply get as an indie the kind of attention from the big box retailers that studios are used to getting when their videos street. Today, for example Best Buy offers a $5 discount on a package of Weiler’s two films, The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma. Here’s a short piece from Indie Features 06 that gives […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2006

THE FUTURE OF HORROR

While SAW 3 slays at the box office this weekend, check out this excellent dialogue between Scott Tobias and Noel Murray over at The Onion‘s A.V. Club on contemporary horror. Here’s an excerpt from Tobias’s comments: So where is horror going? It seems to me that the genre has hit a crisis point creatively: J-horror is dying off, Hollywood is running out of ’70s and ’80s horror staples to remake, and surely at some point, the Saw and Final Destination franchises will lose their novelty. (Though maybe I’m giving audiences too much credit on that last one.) At the same […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 28, 2006

CABIN FEVER

A colleague who programs for a regional film festival forwarded this link to screenwriter William Martell’s blog in which he launches a lengthy broadside against the purity of film festivals. An excerpt: You probably think of film festivals as some sort of important institution – a cultural event designed to select the very best motion pictures and give them the rewards they so rightly deserve. A place where commerce doesn’t matter, and artistic expression is worshiped. A place where people only care about the quality of the film, and only the best films are screened. Bullshit. Film festivals are about […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 28, 2006

CURRICULUM EXPANDER

I came across journalism student Clementine Gallot’s blog Franco American after noticing a comment she posted to one of my postings on Gaspar Noe, below. Gallot posts in French and in English and here she is, excerpted, on Noe’s screening of his short We Fuck Alone to a group of NYU students: …Noe’s 23-minute piece features a couple having sex on television and a young girl masturbating to a teddy bear while a punk jerks off to an inflatable doll. Shot with a small DV camera between Los Angeles and New York, it employs strobes and the soundtrack of a […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 22, 2006

HOPE AT THE HAMPTONS

Ted Hope was honored tonight out at the Hamptons International Film Festival with its annual Hamptons/Indiewire Industry Toast. The producer of over 50 movies (and an old and good friend), Hope was given this mid-career honor for producing a body of work that, so far, includes films by, among many others, Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Michel Gondry, Ed Burns, Hal Hartley, and Todd Solondz; the creation of pioneering production companies (Good Machine and now This is That); leading several industry initiatives, including the indie battle against the MPAA screener ban; and, as James Schamus quite eloquently summarized at the evening’s […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 20, 2006

JUNE AND JULY IN OCTOBER

Thought I’d congratulate Brady Hall who won the Best Feature at the Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings festival last week for his feature June and July. I was a judge along with John Vanco of the IFC Center, Charlie Humphrey of Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Lane Kneedler of the AFI Festival. The film is a somewhat unclassifiable drama about a pair of fraternal twins living in the Pacific Northwest as it mixes science fiction elements with what might otherwise be a small-scale indie relationship movie. Here’s the NWFF’s catalog on the film: Written and directed by Seattle filmmaker Brady Hall (POLERCHRIST, […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 18, 2006

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