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What’s in the Summer Issue of Filmmaker?
What’s in the summer issue of Filmmaker? Well, first of all, our 2014 25 New Faces, but you already knew that. (If you didn’t, click here and find out who they are.) But there’s a lot more to be found in our print edition. On the cover is Rick Linklater’s chrono-masterpiece, Boyhood. My interview is 5,000 words or so, and maybe the best things about it are just the rhythms of Linklater’s voice and the little bits of filmmaking — and life — wisdom he departs along the way. Our Managing Editor, Vadim Rizov, has been obsessively checking out all […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2014 -
YouTube, We’re Watching You
As I pull up to the front of the convention center, a man in a fluorescent vest struggles with some orange cones. I roll down my window to see if there is room in the parking garage, but before I can ask he says. “We’re full. Twenty thousand people, too many cars. Welcome to VidCon.” As I try to talk, the long line of vehicles behind me begin to honk. Drowned out, I drive off. It was only five years ago that more than 1,400 YouTube creators and fans crammed into a hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. The first […]
by Lance Weiler on Jul 17, 2014 -
“It’s Just a General”: How to Take a General Meeting
At some point in your career, things are going to break your way — you’ll be lucky enough to have your crowdfunded labor of love generate some heat at a big festival. Or your short film will go viral. Or maybe you’ll sell a hot spec or make the Black List. Whatever happens, you’ll land managers and agents, and people in L.A. will want to meet you — and not a minute too soon, because you’re four months behind on rent and need to pay for T-shirts for all your backers. It’s time to meet studio execs looking to hire […]
by Marc Maurino on Jul 17, 2014 -
Kodak Moments: Rick Linklater on His Award-Winning Long-Game Masterpiece, Boyhood
This interview with Rick Linklater about his Boyhood originally appeared as the cover story of our Summer, 2014 issue. As the film wins Best Picture from the New York Film Critics’ Circle, is is posted online for the first time. Time, along with its cousin memory, are among modernity’s great artistic subjects, with the title of Proust’s masterwork, In Search of Lost Time, articulating the journey of countless authors, playwrights, and filmmakers to creatively capture the sensations and meanings of our rapidly receding past. Among the latter have been directors whose films have reached for these passing years with any […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 17, 2014 -
Jessica Dimmock + Christopher LaMarca
Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca first met at the International Center of Photography, where training in documentary photojournalism laid the common foundation for their future working relationship. Separately, both took on long-term projects while working as professional photographers. Dimmock’s three years tracking a group of heroin addicts became her monograph, The Ninth Floor, while LaMarca’s work included a series on underground pool hustling in Queens and four years tracking forest activism in Oregon. In 2010, LaMarca was burnt out on still photography. His work covering environmental issues for Rolling Stone, GQ and similar publications led him to feel that he […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Zeek Earl + Chris Caldwell
The cool lines, polished surfaces, and antiseptic environments found in much futuristic science fiction — these are nowhere to be found in the defiantly tactile, speculative work of Seattle-based filmmakers Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell. In just two short films they’ve established a hauntingly eerie, character-based sensibility in which fantastic fiction is grounded first and foremost in the natural world. “We live in the Pacific Northwest,” Caldwell says, “and we love to be outside. The environment here is a big inspiration to us, and that carries through into the work.” Meeting when they both studied writing at Seattle Pacific University, […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Darius Clark Monroe
Thirty-three-year-old Houston native Darius Clark Monroe’s feature documentary debut Evolution of a Criminal is an unflinching and unusual cinematic self-portrait, the type few directors are ever in a position to make, let alone pull off with such intimacy and panache. In high school, motivated by his families’ difficult economic circumstances, Darius and two other teens robbed a local bank. Years after the resulting prison stint, Monroe — an alumnus of the University of Houston and New York University’s Graduate Film Program — decided to embark upon a project that would bare his guilt, reasoning and ability to transcend a childhood […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Janicza Bravo
Janicza Bravo gives it all away in the title of her Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning short film, Gregory Goes Boom. Still, audiences have been surprised by the explosive finale of this Michael Cera-starring tale of a runaway paraplegic man looking for love at the Salton Sea. “There was a Sundance screening in Salt Lake City where some aggressive things were said about me,” Bravo admits. “That I was a bad person and insensitive, and that the film is a bleak picture of being paraplegic. But the film is not about being paraplegic; it’s about being dismissed.” Bravo was inspired to […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Editor’s Letter
Moments before writing this Editor’s Letter, an email landed in my inbox — a check-in from a writer/director who appeared in our very first edition of 25 New Faces, way back in 1998. That edition featured, among others, the actor Peter Sarsgaard, directors Jessica Yu and Jamie Babbit, d.p. Amy Vincent, and film composers Nathan Larson and Craig Wedren. All still active, as is the email-writer, Christina Ray Eichman (now just Christina Ray). “Some years are busy and some years are really lean,” she writes, “but there’s nothing that I’d rather be doing. I’ve done everything from directing and writing […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 17, 2014 -
Bernardo Britto
Bernardo Britto conceived his most recent animated short, the Sundance Short Film Jury Prize-winning Yearbook, after grappling with the ultimately insignificant scale of his previous work. “It didn’t mean anything, and people would just forget about it,” realized Britto. “How do you deal with making things people won’t remember 100, 200, 300 years from now?” If you’re Britto, you make a devastatingly emotional, socio-politically steeped love story of sorts about a man who has been tasked with cataloguing our world history in the 17 years before an alien missile detonates Earth. It’s a highly intelligent allegory, characteristic of Britto’s style, […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014
