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IS TWITTER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SPEECH?

Mark Cuban asks on his blog the question, “Are Tweets Copyrighted?” Wondering whether republishing a tweet violates copyright law, Cuban puts a legal spin on something that I wondered when I joined the service recently. In fact, the first day I was on I tweeted (?) the following: “Wondering: is Twitter quotable outside the Twitterverse? Or is that bad nettiquette?” The response I got was that tweets are public speech and yes, people can quote them. Funnily, this made sense to me even though I do think copyright law generally prevents people from quoting in full. In other words, I […]

by Scott Macaulay on Mar 29, 2009

MONEY, THAT’S WHAT I WANT

Expertly timed to premiere today, on so-called “Black Friday” when many parents rush to the stores to buy the latest must-have gifts for their sons and daughters is Lauren Greenfield‘s documentary Kids + Money. Greenfield is the photograher and author of the seminal Girl Culture, a book chronicling the reality of being a teenage girl in America today. Visit any filmmaker, screenwriter, production designer, of costume designer who has worked on a teen film and you’ll find this book on their shelf of reference materials. Next Greenfield made Thin, a photo essay and also documentary film about girls with eating […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 28, 2008

LEAKING SUNDANCE ’09?

Look forward to a blog post later this week or early next in which we print and comment upon the list of films accepted into this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And while word-of-mouth generally circulates that a few titles are in, for the most part filmmakers keep a lid on it until the list comes out. This year, however, leaks are occurring. Sean Means’s blog at the Chicago Tribune lists a few films that the filmmakers themselves have posted news of their acceptance. The blog for Cory McAbee’s Stingray Sam says that the director’s follow-up to The American Astronaut will […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2008

ABEL FERRARA ON HOLLYWOOD, MARY, RELIGIOUS MOVIES AND BAD LIEUTENANT

In Director Interviews, Nick Dawson talks with Abel Ferrara on the release of Mary at the Anthology Film Archives. I’m a big fan of this film — it’s his best in years. (Although I haven’t seen Go-Go Tales and the Chelsea Hotel doc yet.) Ferrara fans can also dip into the Filmmaker Archives with this interview with the director about R Xmas by Jeremiah Kipp. And, not on the Filmmaker site but on the late Zoe Lund’s site, my cover story on Bad Lieutenant back in 1992.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2008

FASHION OF THE TIMES

Okay, cool mentions across the blogosphere are one thing, but a fashion spread in the Sunday Times is something else. Check out this feature to see Josh Safdie, director of The Pleasure of Being Robbed (my favorite independent film of the year), his brother Benny, actress Eleonore Hendricks and the rest of the Red Bucket Films crew wearing some of the latest Fall fashions. There’s also this group of curated Red Bucket Shorts.

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 24, 2008

INDIEWIRE SOLD TO SNAGFILMS

While we were all sleeping last night the folks at indieWIRE were preparing the announcement of a deal with the site SnagFilms. What is SnagFilms? (I had to look it up myself) Variety describes it as “Hulu-style free streaming with social networking in that films stream for free but can also be shared or posted to Facebook pages or blogs.” The doc distrib site was created by former AOLers Ted Leonsis and backed by Steve Case and Miles Gilburne. Its Beta version launched today with 250 titles supplied by PBS, National Geographic, IndiePix, Arts Alliance America and Koch Lorber with […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jul 17, 2008

PRIDE OF PLACE

If you are in Chicago this next month — or, perhaps, if you’ve got frequent flier miles or simple wanderlust — then I highly recommend checking out Enter Dream, a photo show by writer, photographer and critic Ray Pride, whose work is well known to readers of Filmmaker as well as those of his own Movie City Indie blog. Ray’s evocative photos are visually stunning and haunted by the idea of cinema — they contain potent traces of storytelling, whiffs of dramatic atmosphere, and suggestions of character. Here’s the official spam: The photographs in “Enter Dream” anatomize the geography of […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 12, 2008

CATCH-UP BLOGGING

We just put the new Spring issue of Filmmaker to bed, so that’s why there hasn’t been much blogging here. Really, I was going to try to burn the midnight oil and throw some postings up, but then I read the now infamous New York Times “Death by Blogging” article and thought better of it. So, here are a few things I would have posted about in greater detail if I had the time. First, as you know from reading this blog, we try to keep up with and promote the work of our annual “25 New Faces” filmmakers. I […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2008

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS’ GARY GYGAX, R.I.P.

Gary Gygax, co-creator of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (with Dave Arneson), died on March 4th. He had been in poor health for some time, and apparently died of heart problems. I saw notice of his death on Boing Boing earlier in the week, took a second to recognize Gygax’s name, and then kept on surfing through the site. Later, though, I thought a bit more about Gygax and his cultural contribution and decided to write something here for a couple of reasons. First, I’ll cop to having been a bit of a D&D geek for a couple […]

by Scott Macaulay on Mar 6, 2008

NEW YORK INDIES STRIKE WGA DEAL

The AP is reporting that four New York indie film companies — Greenestreet Films, This is That Corporation, Killer Films and Open City Films — have signed an interim agreement with the striking WGA, allowing them to go forward with WGA-scripted development projects and productions. From the piece as it runs on CNN.com: Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente, speaking for GreeneStreet, Open City and Killer films, credited the union with “thoughtfulness during the discussions.” This is that co-founders, Ted Hope and Anne Carey, said the united action by the companies to settle “clarifies our support for and solidarity with the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 3, 2008

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