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“MARTHA, MARCY…” PRODUCTION CO., BORDERLINE FILMS, SIGNS FIRST-LOOK DEAL WITH FOX SEARCHLIGHT
Just hitting the wires is the word that Borderline Films, the team of Antonio Campos, Josh Mond and Sean Durkin, have signed a first-look deal with Fox Searchlight. Searchlight is currently distributing Durkin’s Boderline pic, Martha Marcy May Marlene. Both Campos and Durkin are Filmmaker Magazine “25 New Faces” selections, and in the current print issue Mond talks about how the company sustains itself in the independent filmmaking business. They’re a talented team and I’m glad to hear their future projects have a first-look home. The press release follows: LOS ANGELES, CA, November 3, 2011 – Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2011 -
Editor Tariq Anwar on the Art of Postproduction
Thursday night EditShare sponsored a seminar with Oscar-nominated film editor Tariq Anwar at the Florence Gould Hall on East 59th Street in Manhattan. Despite rain the evening was well attended by writers, directors, and especially editors, and Anwar’s presentation — basically a low-key Q&A session moderated by Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Josh Apter — was fun and informative. Here are a few thoughts he shared. Anwar got into filmmaking somewhat accidentally, starting by driving a truck then getting work as an assistant director. After doing a great deal of yelling at crews, he decided “the cutting room was the most civilized […]
by Randy Astle on Oct 30, 2011 -
TODD SKLAR BEGINS PRODUCTION ON HIS NEW FILM “AWFUL NICE”
For our Fall 2008 issue we highlighted Missouri filmmaker Todd Sklar, who embarked on a DIY road trip with his film Box Elder and three others, screening at arthouses and colleges throughout the midwest. Sklar is now in production on his next feature, Awful Nice, through his Range Life Entertainment company. Shot in Branson, Missouri, the film follows estranged brothers Jim (James Pumphrey) and Dave (Alex Rennie) as they return to Branson to renovate the vacation home that their recently deceased father left them. Sklar co-wrote the script with Rennie. Shooting begins in Branson next week and will end in […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 17, 2011 -
PRODUCTION DESIGNER JACK FISK ON WORKING WITH TERRENCE MALICK
Last year Alicia Van Couvering sat down with Jack Fisk, Terrence Malick’s longtime production designer. Here’s a brief excerpt, and the full piece is at the link. Terry and I have developed a relationship where we just go and look at locations together, for weeks, and that way we kind of get in sync on a picture. And then he says, “Whatever you do will be fine.” He’s so trusting, but I’ve worked so hard to fall in line with what he’s after. I think also over the years we’ve kind of developed similar tastes. Some of it came about […]
by Scott Macaulay on May 29, 2011 -
The Set Up: Three Pairs of DPs and Production Designers Reveal the Creative Synergies Between These Two Departments
Without an environment to shoot, cinematographers have nothing; without directors of photography to shoot their sets, production designers have no purpose. It takes a lot of people to build a world for the camera to film, and while the director may inspire and supervise its creation, it takes a production designer and a cinematographer to get it in front of the lens. The creative and practical collaboration between these two key crew members often gets personal. It is always co-dependent. We spoke to three such teams about their most recent projects together – Inbal Weinberg and Andrij Parekh of Blue […]
by Alicia Van Couvering on Jul 1, 2010 -
SAVE OUR 181 FILM PRODUCTION INCENTIVES!
Perhaps you’ve gotten into the habit of phoning your elected representatives about issues like, I don’t know, health care… Well, if you are a working film producer you might add one more call to your phone sheet. Section 181, which allows investors to write off the cost of film production in the first year of expenditure, has been a real incentive to the independent film business over the last few years. It is due to expire December 31, but there is a possibility it will be extended. The extension vote has passed the House and is now waiting Senate passage […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2009 -
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION
More in today’s New York Times that’s worth noting: Alice Pfeiffer’s piece on how the art world is dealing with digital art creation and sales. Again, much of the most interesting thought about these issues is happening outside of the film world. An excerpt: The speed of change in electronic technology, the disconnect between data storage and display and the virtual nature of digital imagery raise difficult questions: how to tell genuine from fake or copy; how to create and protect uniqueness; and how to protect a work against technological obsolescence. Video art, for example, is typically sold as a […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 6, 2009 -
KILLER AND MASSIFY’S LOOP PLANES WRAPS PRODUCTION
Robin Wilby’s Loop Planes , produced by Christine Vachon, is the first project to emerge from the partnership between Massify and Killer Films, and it has just wrapped production. Brooke Sebold is documenting the process over at Massify, and the first video is now up. It is embedded below, and make sure to visit the page and the site for more on the project and Massify in general. Massify + Killer Films Episode 1 from Massify on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 28, 2009 -
OBAMA, 181, AND FILM PRODUCTION
Submitted with the caveat that he’s not an expert on tax law, producer Noah Harlan sent the below comment about possible effects of the Obama election on film production incentives. From Harlan: It might be worth noting one of the interesting implications of the election for the film business. The bailout package passed last month included an extension of the section 181 provisions of the federal tax code that allowed investors in qualifying US films to take their investment as an expense against income. For most investors (except those that were full-time film investors) it is specifically against passive income […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 6, 2008 -
A BILLION DOLLAR PRODUCTION FUND
In Variety, Ali jafaar reports on a new production company poised to pump a billion dollars into film production. From the piece: Abu Dhabi has set its sights on joining the big leagues of pic production. The Abu Dhabi Media Co., which oversees the emirate’s film, TV and radio outlets, is launching a production shingle with $1 billion to spend on developing, financing and producing feature films over the next five years. Company dubbed Imagenation Abu Dhabi, which will also oversee Abu Dhabi’s existing $1 billion production fund with Warner Bros., has a mandate to produce eight features a year […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 2, 2008
