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A WALK THROUGH SXSW’S SCREENBURN ARCADE
Here’s another quick iPod touch SXSW video, this one with short interviews with a few people who had booths at the festival’s ScreenBurn Arcade. Games for the whole family, Mike Tyson, corporal punishment and more… Featured: Unlimited Justice; “Taking on Tyson” ; Mayfair Games; Wyld Stallyns Games; Renegade Kid; GameGround.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 17, 2011 -
“3 BACKYARDS”: THE DARK SPACES BETWEEN EVERYDAY LIVES
(Distributed by Screen Media, 3 Backyards opens theatrically in NYC at the IFC Center on Friday, March 11, 2011. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) What do you want from a film experience? If I am going to schlep into Manhattan and pay money for a ticket I want the large-screen experience to be something specifically cinematic. I don’t need any William Castle-like “transmedia” gimmicks or 3D to prod me into the seat. I just need to know that I will be in the hands of a director who understands that narrative cinema can operate in a space […]
by Mike S. Ryan on Mar 10, 2011 -
WHAT’S IN MY INSTAPAPER: SUNDAY MORNING LINKS
Here are some links that caught my eye this week. The Workbook Project has a new Transmedia Talk Podcast. Topics include “The Web is Dead,” Foursquare, and the Transmedia panels at SXSW 2011. Also at the Workbook Project, Mark Harris on why he shot his forthcoming The Lost Children fiction feature as a doc. Sarah Kessler at Mashable: “New Neutrality — Seven Worst-Case Scenarios.” There’s been a lot of interest in NYC writer Tao Lin over at The Rumpus. I haven’t read him, so I can’t comment. But here’s an intro at Salon that also discusses the new ways he’s […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 29, 2010 -
WHAT IF YOUR DISTRIBUTOR DEFAULTS…
Mark Litwak has great excerpt from his book Risky Business on his Entertainment Law Newsletter today dealing with default by distributors. He begins: Many years ago I represented a filmmaker who entered into an agreement with a small home-video distributor. The company had a decent reputation, and since there were no other offers for this $80,000 movie, a deal was struck. The filmmaker was promised a $40,000 advance for U.S. home video rights. The advance was payable in four installments over the course of a year. After the second installment was received, the distributor was acquired. The new owners stopped […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 7, 2010 -
OUTFEST 2010 ANNOUNCES LINEUP
Outfest 2010: The 28th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will screen 147 films from 23 countries and host panels and events throughout the city, from July 8-18. Opening with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman‘s Howl and closing with J.B. Ghuman, Jr.’s Spork, Outfest will have two other gala screenings as well as a number of special screenings of LGBT classics like Clueless and Hustler White. Here is the complete list of Outfest features: Opening Night Gala – HOWL, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (July 8 at 8:00pm – Orpheum Theatre) Closing Night Gala – Spork, J.B. Ghuman, Jr. […]
by Jaimie Stettin on Jun 3, 2010 -
NEW INDIE FILM MONETIZATION PLAN: SUING DOWNLOADERS
In a surprising Hollywood Reporter article, Eriq Gardner discovers a new indie film monetization scheme. He quotes Jeffrey Weaver of the D.C.-based U.S. Copyright Group who says of his company’s work, “We’re creating a revenue stream and monetizing the equivalent of an alternative distribution channel.” Like many others in the indie community, Weaver’s efforts involve torrents. In his case, however, the company is not using torrent sites as a no-cost means of cultivating an audience but rather as objects of prosecution. From Gardner’s piece: In what may be a sign of things to come, more than 20,000 individual movie torrent […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 31, 2010 -
IFP JOINS SHOOTING PEOPLE AND NYWIFT IN FIRST U.S. DELEGATION TO HOT DOCS
The IFP have announced they have teamed up with fellow organizations Shooting People and New York Women in Film & Television to lead the first-ever U.S. delegation to Hot Docs. The members of these organizations will get to attend the Toronto Documentary Forum, International Co-Production Day, and be featured in the Digital Doc Shop market. In addition, the delegation will receive other perks: access to all 255 screenings, Digital Doc Shop screenings, and all Hot Docs discussions, including the Kickstart panels, Hot Docs Talks, CoffeeTalks, and Micro Meanings. There will be over 1,900 documentary professionals from around the world, over […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Mar 12, 2010 -
HOW THE iPAD WILL AFFECT FILMMAKERS
I posted a vaguely impressed impression of the iPad yesterday just after the Apple press conference was over. Of course, 24 hours later, I’m thinking about the details, good and bad. The big downer is Apple’s reintroduction of the 4:3 format (1024×768). That means that watching a 16:9 movie on your iPad will give you big black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Obviously, Apple had to make a choice regarding screen dimensions and they went with one that trades off in film and TV what it will gain with other forms of content. Nonetheless, it’s not […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 28, 2010 -
THE CINE INSTITUTE COVERS THE CRISIS IN HAITI
Recently in Filmmaker Melissa Silvestri wrote about the Cine Institute in Haiti in this short report: India has Bollywood, and Nigeria has Nollywood, two examples of international film industries that have thrived outside of Hollywood, and soon, perhaps, Haiti can be added to that list. In the port city of Jacmel, considered the cultural capital of Haiti and home to many writers, painters and poets, is the Ciné Institute, which is steadily instilling film schools in the country’s young film students. The school had its origins as a film festival in 2004. The Festival Film Jacmel, founded by filmmaker David […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2010 -
THE BEST WAY TO READ A SCREENPLAY ON A MACBOOK
I posted previously about a way to read a screenplay on a Macbook or other laptop by rotating the script page in a PDF reader and then turning the computer so it’s oriented vertically, not horizontally. John August had previously posted a little tutorial about this on his blog, and one day, for inexplicable reasons, that method stopped working on my computer. Whenever I’d advance the page the script would revert back to its normal orientation. I’m sure there’s a good reason for that, and if I spent longer playing around in Preferences I’d find it. (I’m sure there’s also […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 4, 2010
