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Do No Harm: Lana Wilson and Martha Shane on After Tiller
While making After Tiller, Lana Wilson and Martha Shane struggled to get support from granting agencies cautious about supporting a film about such a hot-button topic as third-trimester abortion. In response to the pair’s bid for support, one major film grant organization said, “We’re waiting to see where this movie comes down.” Or, in other words, “We can’t support the film unless we support the way you depict this contentious issue.” The genius of After Tiller is that it doesn’t “come down” anywhere. It doesn’t make a case or take sides. At a time when documentaries about major political and […]
by Nick Dawson on Jul 18, 2013 -
Outlaw Country
David Lowery made waves last year in the independent film world with the news that Ain’t Them Bodies Saints — the follow-up to his little-seen $12,000 feature film St. Nick (2009) — had attracted the stellar cast of Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster. It quickly became one of the year’s most anticipated independent films, premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Critic’s Week. The film begins with a robbery and shootout, and a young couple torn apart. Bob Muldoon (Affleck) is sent to prison, leaving his pregnant girlfriend Ruth Guthrie (Mara) to raise their daughter alone […]
by David Barker on Jul 18, 2013 -
¡Viva La Revolución!
A few months ago I went to the Los Angeles premiere of a horror film, Aftershock, directed by Nicolás Lopéz and produced by Eli Roth. Roth stars as an American who travels to Chile to visit local friends, but what starts as a romantic comedy about a trio of losers trying to get laid shifts dramatically and horrifically when a massive earthquake hits. Roth, in a khaki suit, plaid shirt and blue tie, looked more the producer than director of horror films such as Hostel and the upcoming The Green Inferno. He introduced Lopéz with generous praise. Roth had known […]
by Ben Odell on Jul 18, 2013 -
Super 8
James Turrell While a visit to James Turrell’s private, Arizona-based Roden Crater project remains on every art obsessive’s bucket list, the optical mysteries of this groundbreaking artist can be more easily viewed this summer in a monumental three-museum retrospective. Visit the Guggenheim in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the L.A. County Museum of Art to experience Turrell’s indescribable, light-based sculptures. Accidental Tech Podcast Developers, consumer tech geeks and, particularly, obsessive Mac fans, there’s a new podcast for you. Three developers and tech journalists (Marco Arment, Casey Liss and John Siracusa) who previously found their home on […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 18, 2013 -
Follow Filmmaker on App.net
You can now follow Filmmaker on App.net. What is App.net? Well, here’s Ben Friedland last August on the App.net blog: App.net is a subscription-based, advertising-free social network and API. It’s a platform that developers can rely on and that members can use to interact with each other. App.net connects members’ feeds across clients built by third-party developers. Developers are free to build on our API – we’ll even send you a monthly payment, if your app is well-received – which means that members have a variety of apps to choose from to access the network. Most of the larger press […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 17, 2013 -
Five Questions with The Punk Syndrome Directors Jukka Kärkkäinen and Jani-Petteri Passi
It’s not very punk to admit this, but out of all the films I’ve seen this year, the one that has activated my tearducts most often is The Punk Syndrome, directed by Jukka Kärkkäinen and Jani-Petteri Passi. The documentary details the rise of Finnish punk band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day), which has four members: Pertti, Kari, Toni, and Sami, all of whom are mentally handicapped. As we witness the band members grapple both with the pressures of rising fame and the pressures of the everyday condition, this spare documentary gathers an undeniable emotional power. The directors, relative […]
by Jake Appet on Jul 16, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: 12 Years a Slave
Set in the years leading up to the Civil War, and based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 autobiographical memoir, Steven McQueen’s new 12 Years a Slave tells the story of a free New York State black man kidnapped and travelled down South, where he is sold into slavery. The film chronicles his attempts to stay alive and maintain his spirit as he dreams of the day when he can be reunited with his family. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Northup, Michael Fassbender a harsh slave owner, and Brad Pitt a Canadian abolotionist. The film was shot on 35mm by Sean Bobbitt and opens […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 16, 2013 -
Anna Sandilands & Ewan McNicol
It’s important to remain flexible, to keep an open mind about your future, yourself, other people, and this quality is very evident in the work of Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands. McNicol, a British expat, had adolescent dreams of designing cars, and Chicago-born Sandilands went to the University of Puget Sound (“which makes me a Lady Logger”), intending to become an archaeologist. Now, though, the two are partners in the Seattle-based Lucid Inc., which started out as an advertising company but has increasingly become focused on making documentaries. McNicol and Sandilands both have photographer fathers, and the two came to […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 15, 2013 -
Emily Carmichael
“That’s very short-film worthy.” Emily Carmichael has just heard my formerly best kept secret that I used to trade Pokémon cards with a German boy who lived across the hall from me when I was eight. “This is the short film,” she declares, barely a beat later. “You guys are playing together, and he gets injured and keeps saying something over and over again, and your parents grab you and say, ‘Make him say it in English, he’s speaking German,’ and you come into the room and it turns out to be the name of a Pokémon.” Such is the […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 15, 2013 -
Andrew Thomas Huang
Los Angeles-based director/visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang’s trademark motifs — bodies and nonphysical objects breaking down and reintegrating, inanimate objects from the natural world coming to life, a penchant for unnerving grotesquerie in the vein of personal inspiration Chris Cunningham — took time to crystallize. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Southern California, Huang decided to make a short film outside the program. The result was 2005’s Doll Face, in which a robot gets obsessed with TV images, trying to remake itself in their likeness. “It led to signing with a production company and […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 15, 2013
