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WELCOMING ST. NICK

Filmmaker David Lowery keeps one of the most literate film blogs out there, Drifting: A Director’s Log, and one topic that has popped up from time to time is his feature film, St. Nick. The film will be premiering at SXSW next month, and now Lowery has posted the first trailer. Check it out. ST. NICK trailer from ST NICK on Vimeo.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 8, 2009

SUNDANCE CREATIVE PRODUCING INITIATIVE DEADLINE THIS WEEK

Emerging U.S. producers have until Friday to put together their application for the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative, perhaps the only non film-school program of its kind. It is described on the web page like this: SUNDANCE CREATIVE PRODUCING INITIATIVE The Sundance Creative Producing Initiative is a year-long creative and strategic fellowship program for emerging American producers with their next project. The program was conceived to develop and support the next generation of American independent producers. For over 27 years, the Sundance Institute has offered in-depth year-round programs for feature screenwriters and directors. In an increasingly competitive and complex marketplace, the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 8, 2009

ARTS FUNDING, FILM BREAKS STRIPPED FROM SENATE STIMULUS BILL

Stripped from the version of the economic stimulus bill being sent to the Senate for vote are two provisions that affect the film community. First, a bill offering a tax break for film production that appeared in the House version was cut, and, second, increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts was eliminated. Jim Puzzanghera reports in the Los Angeles Times, explaining that the film provision consisted of a bonus depreciation tax break allowing investors to take an immediate 50% write-off on projects begun in 2009. (Here I need the help of some of our regular tax-break-savvy readers […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 7, 2009

NEW YORK FILM TAX CREDIT ON HOLD

From Crain’s New York Business comes this disquieting news about the New York State refundable tax credit for film production that has been integral to the health of our business here. It’s titled “Television Production Stalls Out in New York,” and its subhead says it all: “The state’s tax credit for filming in the Big Apple has become a victim of its own success; the state is out of money and a lack of pilots is threatening jobs.” From the middle of the piece, this salient passage: Studio and local production executives began to worry several months ago about the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 5, 2009

SXSW ANNOUNCES LINE-UP!

The SXSW Film Festival, unspooling in Austin, Texas from March 13 – 21, has just announced its line-up. Without further adieu… NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITIONThis year’s 8 films were selected from 737 submissions. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are: Artois the GoatDirector: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle BogartLab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. Cast: Mark Scheibmeir, Sydney Andrews, Stephen Taylor Fry, Dan Braverman (World Premiere) Bomber Director/Writer: Paul CotterA bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping bombs […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 1, 2009

FREE IS NOT ENOUGH

I’ve posted previously on this blog about The Long Tail author Chris Anderson’s recent series of articles (and forthcoming book) on the economics of free. Briefly, Anderson’s proposition is that digital production and delivery, which decreases the marginal cost of goods, drives their purchase price down to zero. For most, this means adapting to the idea of distribution being ad-supported in some way, and this type of revenue scheme is what has dominated Anderson’s previous writings on the subject. But as I noted in a previous post on the Google Book Settlement, the problem with free models for the producer […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 31, 2009

Milcho Manchevski, Shadows

BORCE NACEV AND VESNA STANOJEVSKA IN DIRECTOR MILCHO MANCHEVSKI’S SHADOWS. COURTESY MITROPOULOS FILMS. Writer-director Milcho Manchevski has only made three features over the course of his 15-year film career, yet the multi-talented Macedonian rarely allows himself a moment to catch his breath. Born in 1959 in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, Manchevski studied History of Art and Archeology at his hometown university before going to film school at Southern Illinois University on a scholarship. Following his graduation, he relocated to New York and began making commercials, music videos, documentaries, shorts and experimental films. In 1992, he won several major awards […]

by Nick Dawson on Jan 30, 2009

“MOON” director, Duncan Jones

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 23, 6:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Moon was a challenge to write. There were a set of pretty stringent criteria that we had come up with for ourselves in order to give us the best chance of getting the film made. I had to keep in mind a very limited budget, keep the cast as small as possible, write something that would best be done in a controlled, studio environment all while utilizing a very specific set of visual effects that would maximize production value for minimum cost. All that, and we didn’t want […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 23, 2009

MANOHLA DARGIS ON THE INDIE FINANCING CONUNDRUM

I agree with Manohla, the reduced crowds make this Sundance the most pleasant in years. In her just-posted piece in the New York Times on the festival, however, she includes a bit of historical summary that nails the current conundrum facing the independent sector. An excerpt: The industry was still in attendance this year, but the high-roller fever that has gripped the festival for the last decade has cooled. Although this made for the most pleasant Sundance in memory, it also presents a host of unknowns. If the studios don’t buy independent films, fewer investors in turn may be inclined […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 22, 2009

“IN THE LOOP” co-writer-director, Armando Iannucci

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] I wanted to tell a comic story with a fast, screwball structure but set in the real world and that feels genuine and convincing at every moment. It was inspired by the real-life story that’s kept the world gobsmacked for the past five years: a U.S. President (using and abusing a UK Prime Minister) who mounts an ill-thought-through military invasion in the Middle East that looks like it’s been planned on the back of a cigarette packet. I wasn’t interested in portraying those high up in power, but […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2009

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