6576 Results for “production”
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Ricardo Gaona
Ricardo Gaona’s Parque Central was sparked from a non-working trip to Guatemala. There, he quickly ran into the city’s formidable array of street and park workers, many of them young children. “Because I wear cowboy boots every day, I was getting hit on to get my shoes shined eight to 10 times a day — mostly because I can’t say no,” he says. At a bar, Gaona listened to some patrons who argued that this labor force was a good thing for the country as it inculcated a good “work ethic” in its youth. During the resulting argument, a worker […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016 -
Sonia Kennebeck
An important addition to a developing cinematic canon dealing with our post-9/11 security state, Sonia Kennebeck’s debut documentary, National Bird, is an artful, investigative look at the myriad impacts of America’s use of drone warfare. Focusing on three former members of the U.S. Air Force’s “unmanned aerial vehicle program,” the film focuses most specifically on the trauma and sense of guilt this work has imprinted on these veterans. But to its great credit, the Tribeca-premiering National Bird expands its scope well beyond these subjects, capturing the pain and mental dislocation experienced by survivors in targeted areas as well as the […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016 -
Landlord Blues: Ira Sachs on Little Men
There are little men, and then there are big forces — economic tides, societal shifts, structural change. The beautiful strength of Ira Sachs’s recent work — his mid-career surge after the five-year gap that followed his larger-budget, mini-major film, Married Life — is that Sachs’s characters are such complicated, soulful men and women clearly impacted (but not defined) by the larger issues swirling around them. In his lightly autobiographical 2012 film Keep the Lights On, Sachs essayed the romantic life of a documentary filmmaker in a relationship with a drug-addicted lawyer, set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-millennium New York gay […]
by Rose Troche on Jul 25, 2016 -
Jerónimo Rodríguez
In Jerónimo Rodríguez’s The Monument Hunter, Jorge — a Chilean documentarian living in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood — falls into a historical research k-hole while watching a documentary. An image reminds him of a statue he saw as a child in a park while walking with his father, and further investigation reveals that it was of Portuguese doctor Egas Moniz, a Nobel prize-winning neurosurgeon infamous for developing the procedure for lobotomies. Why was a statue of him in a random park in Santiago, and where did it go? In video diary format, Jorge bounces between Brooklyn and Chile in his quest […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016 -
Sasha Lane
“I was going through such a low point,” Sasha Lane remembers. “I was hopeless, struggling with a bunch of stuff, feeling like something was missing but not knowing how to change things. But I had a feeling that something good was going to happen. It was like there was a little light that was calling, and I didn’t know how to reach it.” The 20-year-old actress — a riveting natural as the soulful center of Andrea Arnold’s Cannes-honored American Honey — is recalling the week her life entirely changed. Lane, who grew up bouncing between Houston and Dallas, had been […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016 -
Brian McOmber
Brian McOmber’s transition from Dirty Projectors drummer to film composer arguably has a more “meet cute” slant than most musicians of his trade. Cutting a Pro Tools file aboard a flight to Seattle, McOmber sat next to filmmaker Hannah Fidell, who was working on her own Final Cut project. The two got to talking, and it wasn’t long before they were alternating production duties on each other’s shorts. “I was just interested in doing another creative project, of any kind, other than touring,” McOmber says. Already spread thin between his duties with the band and day job as a researcher […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016 -
IFP Announces Film Week Expansion Featuring Television, Web & Digital Content
IFP, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, has announced their expansion to support television, digital, web, VR and app-based series at its upcoming IFP Film Week. Series showrunners and creators will take part in the IFP Project Forum, the only International Co-Production Market in the U.S. featuring stories for all platforms. As announced, after 37 years in Manhattan, IFP Film Week is moving across the river to Brooklyn. The event will set up shop in DUMBO anchored around its headquarters, the Made in NY Media Center By IFP. In recent years, IFP and Filmmaker Magazine have played a vital role in launching the careers […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 21, 2016 -
“We Laid Out the Chessboard of the Movie”: Fede Alvarez on Don’t Breathe
Filmmaker Fede Alvarez made an impressive feature debut in 2013 with his uncompromisingly savage, Sam Raimi-approved remake of The Evil Dead, but it didn’t come close to preparing me for his extraordinary follow-up, Don’t Breathe. That film, which reunites Alvarez with his Evil Dead producers Raimi and Rob Tapert as well as co-screenwriter Rodo Sayagues, is a clinic in how to construct a perfect thriller – a Swiss watch of a movie that takes the audience in the palm of its hand in the opening scene and then squeezes hard for an hour and a half. The premise is elegantly […]
by Jim Hemphill on Jul 20, 2016 -
How To Talk to Your Investors about IRC Section 181
At Filmmaker we have covered Section 181, the United States’ film tax credit incentive, quite extensively, but this article by entertainment attorney Daniel J. Coplan, Esq. is both a great overview of how the incentive actually works for individual investors as well as an explanation of one underknown element. The latter concerns the ability of some investors to deduct against ordinary income, not passive income. In short, if you’re raising private equity for a U.S. film this year, read on. (This piece was originally published on LinkedIn and is reprinted with permission.) The purpose of this short article is to […]
by Daniel J. Coplan on Jul 15, 2016 -
Ghost of a Ghost: Alain Gagnol on His Animated Noir Feature Phantom Boy and Co-Director’s Jean-Loup Felicioli’s Designs
Heroically serving as a lifeboat of ingenuity and sophistication while a flood of CG talking animal features drowns the animated landscape, GKIDS offers uniquely conceived, handcrafted and thoughtful storytelling in a medium that has often reached its greatest potential through the pencils and brushes of those seeking to create art rather than doll-selling tentpoles. The independent animation distributor has eight Academy Award nominations under its belt, and few companies in field have remained as truthful to their mantra as these New York-based dream confectioners. Earlier this year GKIDS released in the States the acclaimed, Paris-set steampunk adventure, April and the […]
by Carlos Aguilar on Jul 15, 2016
