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This is 40: IFP Celebrates IFP Week’s 40th Anniversary
With tomorrow’s kickoff, IFP, Filmmaker‘s publisher, celebrates the 40th anniversary of its IFP Week and its own 40th anniversary year. The Fall print edition of Filmmaker includes a commemorative supplement, produced by IFP, which contains, in addition to many fantastic archival photos, this article by Paula Bernstein on the event’s history. Tickets to some of the public events at IFP Week are still available and can be purchased here at the link. — Editor “Only one year out of film school, I soaked it all up like a sponge,” says Oscar-winning producer Adele Romanski, recalling her first time attending IFP […]
by Paula Bernstein on Sep 14, 2018 -
Projecting the IFP: IFP Week’s Original Technical Director David Leitner on His Celluloid Nailbiters
I was technical director of the Independent Feature Film Market from 1986 to 1993, and a member of the Independent Feature Film Market Committee from 1989 to 1993. I attended all prior IFP markets too, starting with the first one, a sidebar to the New York Film Festival. Those early IFFMs were a DIY affair, as scrappy, often broke indie filmmakers maneuvered to squeeze every advantage out of this novel new showcase, navigating its opportunities and inventing new ones. Nothing like it had existed before on the American indie scene. Two memories in particular are dear to me. The first […]
by David Leitner on Sep 14, 2018 -
Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Virginia-born Marnie Ellen Hertzler had been a sculptor in New Orleans when she took a break from art and worked a couple of temp jobs—experiences that provided the creative fuel for her more recent work as a filmmaker. The first was just a regular office clerical gig, where she’d open the mail and page through ULINE office supply catalogs. “When I was a child, I would make animations on my dad’s computer using PowerPoint,” Hertzler says, “and in this office, my only tool was PowerPoint. So, I would cut out my favorite characters and models from the ULINE catalogs, scan […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei
The admirably detailed thriller Cam introduces camgirl Alice Ackerman (Madeline Brewer) in a Scream-worthy opener. A normal session with amiably horny chat room regulars is disrupted when a newcomer demands Alice slit her throat. She goes with it; the blood spurts out, Alice falls back lifelessly… and then rises again. It’s just the latest in a series of boundary-pushing shows designed to get her into her chosen platform’s top 50. When a stranger mysteriously steals her online identity, Alice is pushed into pursuit of her inexplicable online doppelganger. Daniel Goldhaber is the director, Isa Mazzei the sole screenwriter of record. […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
Assia Boundaoui
As a child in the 1990s growing up in the predominantly Muslim community of Bridgeview, Illinois, Algerian-American filmmaker Assia Boundaoui doesn’t remember the first time she realized she and her family were being watched by the FBI. “There wasn’t a moment that anyone told me,” she says. “It was just something I always knew: We are being watched, and people are looking at us in a different way. I remember watching the [first] Gulf War on TV, and then people responding to my mom wearing a hijab–they were afraid of us, suspicious of us.” Boundaoui’s investigation into FBI surveillance of […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
Aymar Jean Christian
Dr. Aymar Jean Christian is the Midwest’s great connector for a diverse generation of web series innovators. He began the Open TV (OTV) platform in 2015 to define “what queer and intersectional TV looks like” and remains its head of development. In his 2018 book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television, Christian writes that the web “allows for smaller-scale productions to appear, and at times thrive. It embraces difference for its relevance to diverse lives…. The pursuit of big scale haunts legacy television, instilling a fear of cultural difference in executives.” Christian had been researching web series […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
Brad Bischoff
While growing up in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove, Brad Bischoff’s parents didn’t want him following his skateboarder brother Wes into the city. One day, Wes was briefly arrested by the FBI for skateboarding on federal property, sealing his parents’ resolve. “My friends ended up kidnapping me and taking me down to the city,” Bischoff recalls. “When I came back, I had all this footage I showed my parents and said, ‘Look, the city’s a good place!’” He later enrolled as a commuter student at Columbia College Chicago; after graduation in 2009, he moved to the city and started […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
Sebastián Pinzón Silva
Growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, Sebastián Pinzón Silva didn’t know about the palenques—communities founded in 16th-century Colombia by Africans who had escaped slavery in the United States, of which only the village of San Basilio de Palenque survives. “I wasn’t taught about this in school, but it’s such an important part of Colombian history,” Silva says. “I didn’t want to do a traditional narration of the history of the place. There’s been a lot of ethnographic work done there, but I’m not an ethnographer.” Palenque, Silva’s thesis film for the two-year documentary media program at Northwestern University, premiered at Locarno […]
by Daniel Christian on Sep 13, 2018 -
“I Wanted to Create Something Like a Heavy Metal Album Cover from the ’70s”: Panos Cosmatos on His Thrilling Nicolas Cage-Starring Revenge Drama, Mandy
Set in a dimension with certain details resembling the Pacific Northwest of the early 1980s, Mandy tells the story of a quiet, reserved lumberjack named Red Miller (Nicolas Cage), who shares a secluded cabin in the woods with the sensitive but hard-tempered Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). These two outsiders live a simple, contented life — they work, they play, they dream — until a gang of demonic bikers called the Black Skulls kidnap Mandy at the behest of deranged cult leader Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache). Sand wishes Mandy to become the latest in his line of young brides and lovers, […]
by Iain Marcks on Sep 12, 2018 -
Head Over to Instagram to Win Tickets to IFP’s Screen Forward Talks on Sunday
The 40th anniversary edition of IFP Week is coming up, and we have 10 free tickets to give away to the opening day of Screen Forward Talks, which include luminaries like Boots Riley and Nina Yang Bongiovi (Sorry to Bother You), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness), Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs, upcoming Birds of Prey), Lauren Wolkstein (The Strange Ones), Julie Cohen & Betsy West (RBG), Nicholas Ma (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?). (Oh, and I’ll be moderating a panel on producing that includes some luminaries as well: Josh Braun, Julie Goldman, Riva Marker, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 11, 2018
