At DIY Days in Philadelphia this weekend I moderated a panel on creative collaboration. Just before heading down I came across this post by filmmaker Zak Forsman on our new message boards entitled “Using Test Screenings to Shape Your Film” and made a note to post it on the blog. Now, Forsman and Sabi partner Kevin Shah, who were both on my panel, have elaborated on the post with an article at The Workbook Project and a video in which they discuss the process of test screening. They have great advice for anyone putting together a feedback screening. One tip […]
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In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Jake Mahaffy. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? Mahaffy: I’m an Associate Professor of Art & Film at Wheaton College in Massachusetts so I have a full-time teaching position. Filmmaker: What is good/not good about this kind of job? Mahaffy: It’s […]
In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Doug Buck, whose response arrived after we went to press on Robinson’s piece. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? Buck: The same way I have supported myself for the last 20 years — electrical engineering. I specialize in airfield lighting design […]
In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Liza Johnson. I work as an art professor, teaching film and video at an undergraduate college. I’ve made a bunch of short films and video art exhibitions during the time I’ve taught there. In important structural ways, the job has been very supportive — you always get summer […]
ARTA DOBROSHI IN LUC AND JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE’S LORNA’S SILENCE. COURTESY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS. From Auguste and Louis Lumière onwards, filmmaking partnerships with last names like Coen, Duplass, Hughes, Maysles, Polish, Quay, Wachowski, Taviani, Zellner and Zucker – just to name a few – have been proving that siblings and cinema go well together, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are certainly no exceptions. The Belgian filmmakers, born in Liège in 1951 and 1954 respectively, have been making films as a duo since 1975, when they formed the production company Dérives. After a decade of making documentaries, they shifted to doc-style fiction […]
In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Tze Chun. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? What was good/not good about this kind of job(s)? Chun: I didn’t go to grad school, but was committed to making films. So I opted to do a bunch of short-term work rather […]
The following email was passed along to us by the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs: Dear colleagues: A national survey entitled “Artists and the Economic Recession” is being undertaken to assess conditions for working artists in the current economic climate. The survey has been commissioned by Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a non-profit advocacy and service organization. The goal is to generate a meaningful national census of the conditions that individual artists currently face, and to conduct a baseline assessment of this vital population, for use by funders, advocates and other stakeholders. To help ensure robust participation among New York […]
In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Sam Green. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? And what was good/not good about these jobs? Green: I’ve done a bunch of different things to support myself while making films. I started off doing freelance editing. I did some terrible outdoors/nature […]
Up on the main page are three web-only interviews of particular interest. The first, posted moments ago, is David Lowery’s interview with Chris Fuller, director of Loren Cass. This no-budget indie (nominated for a Filmmaker-sponsored Gotham Award) is in theaters now from Kino and scored a surprise rave from Nathan Lee in the New York Times. I saw the film a couple of years ago at Cinevegas and was intrigued by its blend of art film aesthetics and documentary style realism. Lowery’s interview really gets at these issues and I recommend it; it’s a great read. Also up is Nick […]