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Scott Hicks, Glass: A Portrait of Philip In Twelve Parts

PHILIP GLASS IN DIRECTOR SCOTT HICKS’ GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS. COURTESY KOCH LORBER FILMS. Best known for his fiction films, Scott Hicks has returned to another form in which he has also distinguished himself: documentary. Usually identified as an Australian, Hicks was in fact born in Uganda and lived in Kenya until the age of 10, before his family moved to England and then Australia. He studied English, Drama and Cinema at Flinders University of South Australia, and made his directorial debut the year of graduation with the ultra-low-budget drama Down the Wind (1975). After working […]

by Nick Dawson on Apr 18, 2008

TIME LAPSED

I was on two short film juries in the last two weeks. If this web video from The New Yorker had been entered in either of them, it would have been a finalist. Via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing: “Up and Then Down,” Nick Paumgarten’s New Yorker feature on elevators, is centered around Nicholas White’s ordeal of being trapped in an elevator for 41 hours after he left his office at Business Week to go downstairs for a cigarette. The article is accompanied by an extraordinary time-lapse video of White in his cage, rattling back and forth like a trapped […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 15, 2008

Five Questions with Carny Director Alison Murray

Throughout her career, Alison Murray has excelled in the filmic exploration of subculture. Her films, both docs and a narrative feature, burrow deep inside groups situated outside of mainstream culture and capture not only their social dynamics but also the very human stories contained within them. Her first doc, Train on the Brain, looked at the teenage culture of “train jumpers.” Her feature Mouth to Mouth starred Ellen Page in a story of a teenager who runs away and joins a European youth cult. And now her latest, Carny, which premieres this week at Hot Docs, finds Murray on the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 15, 2008

DENTLER, PIERSON ON THE MOVE

In Variety, Mike Jones has the very big news that SXSW festival director Matt Dentler will be leaving the fest to join John Sloss’s Cinetic Media, where he will run the marketing and program operations of Cinetic Digital Rights Management. And in an equally notable development, Janet Pierson, who has worked as a producer’s rep with her husband John, has been named as the new producer of the annual Austin-based film festival. From Variety: SXSW Film co-founder Louis Black said: “Saying that Janet will hit the ground running as head of SXSW Film is truly an understatement considering her knowledge […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2008

HUNGRY MEN

I wrote about a couple of this year’s Sundance docs earlier on the blog: Josh Tickell’s Audience Award-winning Fields of Fuel, and Patrick Creadon’s IOUSA. I was positive about the first, enjoying Tickell’s breathless narration and ability to cram a huge amount of info on biodiesel, the alternative fuel source, into his feature. And I was less positive about IOUSA, finding its arguments limited by its focus on one particular contingent of deficit hawks. Another thing: Fields of Fuel is quite direct about what its advocating, coming up with an explicit multi-point plan to harness the power of biodiesel to […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2008

OBSESSION PAYS

If you’re in America, there’s a big deadline this week — income tax filing on April 15. But there’s another deadline across the border that filmmakers all over should consider as well. You have until April 18 to submit a film to the Mobile Stories “Obsession” contest. Here’s information from the press release: Obsession can lead to a lot of things….even winning $1,000. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and iThentic are pleased to announce the launch of Mobile Stories: Obsessions – six three-minute films in which award-winning filmmakers give their “take” on obsession. Made for online, mobile, and […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2008

THREE SHOTS

Over at Stream, Jamie Stuart has a nice piece up in which he looks at the three most important Hollywood movies of the year — No Country for Old Men, Zodiac and There Will Be Blood — and discusses the very different ways they went about creating their images. An excerpt: The fact that all three of these pictures used technologies in different a manner is ultimately irrelevant to the fact that they are all stories told with pictures, regardless of the chosen workflow. While they may be aesthetically different, each approach is completely legitimate. One similarity between them is […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2008

IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP

In Variety, Anne Thompson reports on “post-studio stress disorder” in a remarkably frank piece about the tough job of producing, especially for those studio castaways who are now trying to downside their operations to fit the current economic climate. Here are three graphs: Arguably hardest hit are producers who grew up on big-studio largess and now find the gravy train has moved on without them. Producers and directors once accustomed to pitching a project at a studio and getting easy development money are stymied. Now they need to build muscles and an arsenal of skills they never exercised at the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2008

COME TO PITCHFORK

Our friends (well, we don’t know them, but we like to think of them as friends) at Pitchfork, the best music website, have launched their online music channel, Pitchfork.tv. Today, they have a choice offering; the brilliant Chris Cunningham video for Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy.” And here’s what the site launched with on Monday: Radiohead performing “Bangers and Mash” in producer Nigel Godrich’s home studio.

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2008

SIX DAY WEEK

Eugene Hernandez at Indiewire has the scoop on some rebranding at the IFP. The IFP Market has been rechristened Independent Film Week. The works-in-progress section will now be called the Project Forum. And, the event, which takes place September 14 – 19, will move to F.I.T. in Chelsea. No word on whether Tim Gunn will be moderating any of the filmmaker workshops. IFP Executive Director Michelle Byrd is quoted in Eugene’s piece: “In the film industry, the word ‘Market’ suggests business transactions, but IFP’s commitment to filmmakers and their projects extends long beyond the six days of Independent Film Week,” […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2008

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