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Lou Howe
A leafless tree stands tall against a cobalt blue sky. It is the first image glimpsed in Lou Howe’s riveting debut Gabriel, currently in post-production, and the sole frame of the film to possess a measure of calm as it’s readily eclipsed by a roaring coach that shuttles the tormented maelstrom of its title character. Gabriel, but please, call him Gabe, is inhabited with magnetic and manic fervor by Rory Culkin, and Howe, who has been a fan of the Culkin brother since You Can Count On Me, does not shy away from the actor’s contributions in the realization of […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 15, 2013 -
Andrew Thomas Huang
Los Angeles-based director/visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang’s trademark motifs — bodies and nonphysical objects breaking down and reintegrating, inanimate objects from the natural world coming to life, a penchant for unnerving grotesquerie in the vein of personal inspiration Chris Cunningham — took time to crystallize. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Southern California, Huang decided to make a short film outside the program. The result was 2005’s Doll Face, in which a robot gets obsessed with TV images, trying to remake itself in their likeness. “It led to signing with a production company and […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 15, 2013 -
Eliza Hittman
While Eliza Hittman, the New York City-based writer/director of It Felt Like Love, saw “an incredible amount of independent films growing up in the ’90s” — she’d skip school to watch Hal Hartley and Lynne Ramsay movies at the Angelika — her main focus was theater directing. She studied theater at Indiana University, and after graduating and returning to NYC, she went through a period she laughingly refers to as her “self-destructive” years. In this time she staged a number of plays during the off season at Soho Rep., but ultimately soured on the experience. She felt her successful productions […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 15, 2013 -
Medium Specific: An Interview with Computer Chess Director Andrew Bujalski
Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess is the most daring feature film of the year. A bewildering and baffling trip back in time (to circa 1980), the movies follows a group of four-eyed super-nerds engaged in a unique chess tournament – in which their carefully designed computer programs face off against each other. Shot on 43-year-old video equipment (the Sony AVC3260, one of the earliest consumer cameras), the movie looks like a lost artifact from another era — with soupy black-and-white images that take on a ghostly pallor. If Bujalski is known for his lo-fi minimalist human comedies Funny Ha Ha, Mutual […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Jul 15, 2013 -
Ryan Coogler Talks with Ava DuVernay about Fruitvale Station
A year ago next week Filmmaker audiences met for the first time writer/director Ryan Coogler, as we featured him in our 2012 “25 New Faces” list. Here’s my profile: Ryan Coogler remembers the first moment it occurred to him to become a film director. Having grown up in Oakland, Coogler was on a football scholarship to Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., where he had to take a creative writing class. The assignment was to write about a personal experience, and Coogler wrote about the time his father almost bled to death in his arms. He handed it in, and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 12, 2013 -
Sundance Institute Announces 29 Documentary Grant Recipients
Yesterday, the Sundance Institute announced the 29 documentary projects that have been selected to receive in total $550,000 worth of grant money from its Documentary Film Program and Fund. A lot of these are for projects in development by emerging filmmakers, but in there are also some films by more established names such as Jesse Moss (Full Battle Rattle), Lucia Small and Ed Pincus (The Axe in the Attic) and Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, who received audience engagement money for their 2011 doc Girl Model. In a press release, Cara Mertes, the Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program […]
by Nick Dawson on Jul 12, 2013 -
Exit Elena – A Hammer to Nail Review
Nathan Silver’s film had its world premiere at the 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival and opens theatrically on July 12, 2013, in at the reRun Theater in Brooklyn. Visit the film’s official website and Facebook page to learn more. NOTE: This review was first published on November 13, 2012. The biggest challenge facing the lead character of Nathan Silver’s hilarious Exit Elena during her first fumbling stint as a live-in nursing assistant isn’t her elderly patient. In fact, if Elena could simply take care of Florence as she’s supposedly been hired to do, she might be the perfect aide to help […]
by Dustin Guy Defa on Jul 11, 2013 -
Summer Grant Deadlines for Independent Filmmakers
With all the recent focus on crowdfunding, filmmakers shouldn’t forget about more traditional sources of funding, such as grants. Over the course of the summer are a number of grant deadlines for filmmakers seeking all stages of financing. Chicken & Egg Pictures First up is the late deadline, this Friday, for Chicken and Egg Pictures’ 2013 Open Call. From the site: “Chicken & Egg Pictures is dedicated to supporting women nonfiction filmmakers whose diverse voices and dynamic storytelling have the power to catalyze change, at home and around the globe.” This year’s average grant will be between $10,000 and $15,000, […]
by Dante Pilkington on Jul 11, 2013 -
16 and Pregnant: Behind the Scenes of Simian, a Tragic Comedy
Nathan Silver’s second feature Exit Elena opens at the reRun Theater this coming Friday, but the prolific Silver has already premiered his third feature, Soft in the Head, on the festival circuit and has just wrapped production on his fourth, entitled Simian. Below is a photo blog written by Silver, Simian‘s producer and co-writer Chloe Domont and Cody Stokes, the film’s co-writer, cinematographer and editor. We just finished shooting Simian, a narrative feature that follows Robbie, a Norman Mailer wannabe who takes refuge at a makeshift home for pregnant teens. The idyllic backdrop of the Hudson Valley seems to be […]
by Nathan Silver, Chloe Domont and Cody Stokes on Jul 10, 2013 -
Shooting With John: Knuckle Jack
On this special episode of Shooting With John we shoot shotguns in Los Angeles with John Adams and talk about the experience of family filmmaking. Knuckle Jack is a wonderful microbudget film made by the Adams family in the backwoods and backyards of upstate New York. Jack is a small-town, foul-mouthed drunk with an artistic gift for thievery. Haunted by a youthful tragedy, he passes through his days in a lonely haze, robbing wealthy weekenders’ homes only to score more drugs, booze and bitterness. When Jack is asked to care for his eight-year-old niece Frankie for one thick, hot Catskill […]
by John Yost on Jul 10, 2013
