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Mikkel Norgaard, Klown
Long considered one of the funniest shows in Scandinavia, the television series Klown features Danish comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam playing Curb Your Enthusiasm-style variations on themselves, getting into hysterically awkward encounters with friends and strangers, loved ones and frenemies, including other Danish celebrities such as actress Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity, The Boss of It All) and Jørgen Leth (the co-director, with Lars von Trier, of The Five Obstructions). Running for six seasons, it propelled the comic duo to the heights of Danish celebrity and mainstream popularity. Now there is a film version of Klown directed by Mikkel Nørgaard, who conceived and directed much of […]
by Brandon Harris on Jul 25, 2012 -
HELP 25 NEW FACES ORNANA KICKSTART THEIR NEXT TWO MOVIES
Last week we announced our 2012 list of “25 New Faces,” a group that numbered 37 as a result of a large number of filmmaking duos, but was expanded even more by a six-man production collective. Ornana, the collective in question, made the playful and funny SXSW-winning animation (notes on) biology and are in postproduction on Euphonia, a live-action narrative feature that is radically different from biology and further underlines the talent as well as the versatility of these young men. (You can read more about both films on their 25 New Faces page.) The gang are currently looking ahead […]
by Nick Dawson on Jul 24, 2012 -
This is Where You Work: Eve Sussman
What sparks creativity? It’s safe to assume that an artist’s work environs affect the process of art-making, so perhaps it’s possible by examining those environs to find some of the seedlings of ideas, of productivity, that space engenders to get the mind to engage with work. That was the idea behind the “This Is Where You Work” series, and when I turned my focus to my first subject, filmmaker Braden King, I was a bit shocked by how relevant the idea was – the items and artifacts filling King’s workspace created a sort of map of his personal life and […]
by Zachary Wigon on Jul 24, 2012 -
Five Questions with Engagement Director Jon Lefkovitz
The trailer for Jon Lefkovitz’s micro-budget psychological thriller Engagement caught our eye here at Filmmaker. It’s a Hitchcock-inspired tale about an young groom-to-be and the woman who may or not be the sister of his out-of-town fiancée. The film is currently up on VOD through Film Buff, and below we ask Lefkovitz five questions about making smart genre entertainment for a price. Filmmaker: Where did the concept of the film come? What were your inspirations? Lefkovitz: The concept for Engagement is actually semi-autobiographical — in 2009, my then-fiancée (now wife) went away for six weeks, leaving me alone in our […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 24, 2012 -
QUARTERLY GIFTS TELL THEIR STORIES
In the current issue of Filmmaker, Lance Weiler writes about scarcity and abundance in the digital world — namely, the trend of digital artists creating physical media limited editions for their fans and followers. Weiler references several such projects in his piece, and, indeed, I’m discovering more every day. Here’s the latest: Quarterly, a subscription service that brings you a unique, curated gift from a trusted curatorial source every three months. “Each shipment tells a story,” the site promises. From the site: Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. We spend so […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 24, 2012 -
Soul Surfing Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Up now on Filmmaker’s curated Kickstarter page is Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, the second feature from Sam Fleischner. The production is in the final days of its campaign and could use your help. What follows is a guest blog post from producer Veronica Nickel. What do we want?! When do we want it?! The next question in that cheer should be: how in the hell do we get what we want right now? Sam Fleischner’s answer must be to assemble the best incognito team that you can find and get out and make your movie. Undeterred by a […]
by Veronica Nickel on Jul 20, 2012 -
Ian Clark
Behind every one of our 25 New Faces is a story and, fittingly, the 25 New Faces list itself plays a crucial role in the tale of Ian Clark’s creative development. In 2007, Clark had just finished a BFA in photography at the University of Montana in Missoula. While at school he had been snowboarding and also making videos of his fellow boarders. However, he was frustrated that they were only interested in him capturing their stunts, and that his attempts at putting a stylistic stamp on the videos were considered an unnecessary embellishment. Looking back, Clark recalls that the […]
by Webadmin on Jul 19, 2012 -
Terence Nance
“I call it ‘one-sided nonfiction,’” says Terence Nance about his dizzyingly creative first feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. An indescribable romantic drama with a wonderfully elastic form, the picture finds writer, director and star Nance obsessing over his own stalled, real-life near-romantic relationship with a young woman, the charismatic Namik Winter, who intriguingly plays herself on screen. “It’s what I remember,” continues Nance. “She says in the movie that it’s factually correct. But I’ve put it onscreen to my music, so it’s biased one-way emotionally.” There’s an American independent history of auteur film as self-analysis, and there have been […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva
It’s a bit of a cliché, an American independent filmmaker making a film inspired by a classic French art film. But Jillian Mayer’s Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, which played Sundance and SXSW this year, is a work of such whacked-out originality and manic invention that it exists in a cinematic alternate universe far away from all the Truffaut-aping first-timers. Calling itself a “modern Miami adaptation” of Chris Marker’s 1962 meditation on time travel, love and mortality, La Jetée, Uncle Luke finds Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew as the last man on earth, fighting for the First […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Jonas Carpignano
Jonas Carpignano is an unusual cat with an unusual set of skills. He’s a cross pollinator, a man who defies labels, in an industry that loves them. Carpignano, a black Italian-American who works and lives between New York City and Rome, is something of a Court 13 character, having worked as second second a.d. on Beasts of the Southern Wild, while his fingerprints are ubiquitous on a whole host of strong NYU grad shorts over the past few years in a variety of roles, from cinematographer and gaffer, to editor and production manager. His own directorial contribution to that education […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012
