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Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Announces Open Call
The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship has announced an Open Call for its 2014 Fellow. In addition to a cash award of $1,000, the Fellowship provides an emerging documentary film editor with mentorship and support from both an established editor as well as a number of film organizations, including Manhattan Edit Workshop and SXSW. The Fellowship honors the career and life of Karen Schmeer, an acclaimed editor who worked on a number of classic films, including many by Errol Morris. She was struck and killed by a car fleeing a robbery on the Upper West Side of New York City […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 6, 2013 -
Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips to Open 2013 New York Film Festival
One of the most anticipated awards films of the year, Paul Greengrass’ Somali pirate movie Captain Phillips, was missing from both the Venice and Toronto lineups announced last week, and the reason why is that, as it was just announced today, it is on September 27 to open the 51st New York Film Festival, where it will have its world premiere. Telling the gripping real-life story of the 2009 hijacking of the American vessel Maersk Alabama, Greengrass’ film centers on the actions of container ship’s captain, played by Tom Hanks. (Captain Phillips will be released theatrically by Sony Pictures on […]
by Nick Dawson on Jul 29, 2013 -
Cannes 2013 Opens with 3-D Glamour, Call Girls & Sci-Fi Animation
This year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival opened with a venerable love fest at the Jury Press Conference on Wednesday. Led by Steven Spielberg, this year’s panel drew an incredible mix of cinema talent Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz, as well as Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and Scotland’s Lynne Ramsay. Spielberg and Lee admitted to the assembled press that they absolutely worshipped each other, despite being pitted up against each other at the Oscars this year. Although Spielberg said he was ready to judge, he claimed, “I look at this as two weeks of celebrating film, not two weeks […]
by Ariston Anderson on May 18, 2013 -
All in the Family: Shawney Cohen on Hot Docs Opener The Manor
The titular subject referred to in Shawney Cohen’s debut feature has nothing to do with ladies and lords, but with the Cohen family business – a combo strip club/motel in a small Canadian town. And The Manor has nothing to do with in the ins and outs of the sex industry, so to speak, but with the inner workings of the Cohen family, which includes Shawney’s 400-pound father (who bought the place when the director was only six) and 85-pound anorexic mother. Ultimately, the doc’s not so much north-of-the-border, reality TV than a nuanced portrait of a loving yet dysfunctional […]
by Lauren Wissot on Apr 25, 2013 -
Filmmaker Announces Collaboration with MIT Open Documentary Lab
Should filmmakers learn to code? That’s the question posed by MIT Open Documentary Lab’s Sarah Wolozin in her introduction to a 12-part series beginning today at Filmmaker. And, amidst all of our discussion in our pages about DSLR cameras and crowdfunding and audience engagement strategies, it’s a question that we’ve contemplated too. We wouldn’t think of telling a director he or she doesn’t need to know anything about lenses, or sound design or dramatic lighting. So, as filmmaking begins to embrace transmedia — extending story beyond the film frame — why shouldn’t producers and directors know something about the tools […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 7, 2013 -
The National Doc Mistaken For Strangers to Open Tribeca Film Festival
It was announced this afternoon that the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival will open on April 17 with Mistaken for Strangers, a documentary about Brooklyn indie heroes The National. The film, exec produced by Oscar-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry, is directed by Tom Berninger, the brother of The National’s lead singer Matt Berninger, who is a producer on the film along with his wife, Carin Besser, and Craig Charland. The film, which has previously had working titles including Summer Lovin’ Torture Party and For Those About to Weep, documents the band’s tour supporting their 2010 album High Violet. Its current title is taken from one […]
by Nick Dawson on Feb 28, 2013 -
Tim Sutton’s Pavilion Opens at IFC Center
One of our favorite recent films at Filmmaker and IFP is Tim Sutton’s dreamy and at times disquieting evocation of youth, Pavilion. The film went through the IFP Labs, and its d.p., Chris Dapkins, made our 25 New Faces list last year. And, just this year, Sutton took part in the Venice Biennale College Cinema, which is partnered with IFP, and because of its support, is set to make his new feature, Memphis, this Spring. As Sutton enters pre-production, Pavilion hits the theaters from Factory 25. It opens at IFC Center in New York tomorrow, and is recommended to all […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 28, 2013 -
SXSW Announces Opening Night & More
Earlier today, SXSW announced their Opening Night lineup. Set on kicking off the fest with a healthy dose of pizzazz, SXSW first night will host the world premiere of the upcoming Steve Carrell/Steve Buscemi comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. In the film, Carrell and Buscemi play former best friends/magic show partners Burt and Anton. When Anton is injured and leaves the act, Burt is left vulnerable to the opportunistic street performer Steve Gray (Jim Carrey). Also starring in the film are James Gandolfini, Olivia Wilde and Alan Arkin. Joining Wonderstone on opening are six films that are a testament to […]
by Billy Brennan on Jan 15, 2013 -
First Winter Opens at Videology
Michael Tully of Hammer to Nail passed along this review of Benjamin Dickinson’s First Winter, written by fellow filmmaker Zach Clark. First Winter is an accomplished, compelling and unexpectedly timely first feature, but I debated a second about posting this. That’s because Clark is also the programmer of Videology, where the film is premiering tomorrow. That said, he opens with a quote from Andrei Tarkovsky so, with this disclaimer, I was cool to run it. — SM First Winter, Benjamin Dickinson’s microbudget entry into the slow-burn apocalypse pantheon, owes no small debt to that scant subgenre’s zenith – Andrei Tarkovsky’s […]
by Zach Clark on Nov 15, 2012 -
Eyes Wide Open: Appreciating Independent Film Week
At the risk of sounding like the luckiest, happiest, most ridiculously annoying girl in the world… WANNA KNOW WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK?! I could run through a list… but I’ll cut to the chase: What I love most is watching people’s eyes widen as I describe my project in my one-on-one industry meetings. It’s one of those little things that I never anticipated. I mean yes, I’m sitting with people who already had a clue about my project and chose to have a meeting with me because there was something about it that appealed to them. […]
by Zoje Stage on Sep 18, 2012
