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HONEST BROKERS

In a saturated market, do producers need producers reps to get their films seen and sold? Reed Martin looks at this world of dynamic middlemen. Plus Twelve Tips for Selling Your Film.


REPORTS

LATER, ALLIGATOR

Filmmakers Pete Zuccarini and Susan Short.

SPED UP

Will De Los Santos’s Spun.

BLACK PANTHER

Spike Lee’s A Huey Newton Story.

ICELAND CALLING

Bradley Rust Gray’s Salt.

MADE IN JAPAN

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s releases.

SPLIT SCREEN

Kutlug Ataman’s Never My Soul.

A GIRL NAMED OLGA

The films of Audrey Campbell.

SCRATCH BACK

Syd Garon and DJ Qbert’s Wave Twisters.

THE ART OF THE SELL

The talent/management company Anonymous Content.

SUPPORT GROUP

Film/Video Arts’ Artist Mentor Project.

THE GREAT WHITE WAY

Rick McKay’s Broadway: The Golden Age.

INTERACTIVE

Margi Szperling’s Uncompressed.

DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY

Matt Zane’s Contrasting Views of People within an Artistic Lifestyle.

INSECT ASIDES

Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay’s Bug.

ART HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE

Criterion Collection’s new DVD releases.

BONNE CHANCE

Tim Perell’s I’m with Lucy.

BILL NISSELSON


Summer 2001 Table Of Contents

FEATURES

25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM

Every year Filmmaker attempts to predict the future by highlighting 25 people we believe will shape it. This year’s group spans a wide diversity of talents and directions, including animators, directors, writers, d.p.s, composers and actors. But they all share a dedication to their craft and provide us with a promise of things to come.

STILL WATERS

San Francisco-based filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel update a postwar melodramatic novel to contemporary Lake Tahoe in The Deep End. Screenwriter Howard Rodman speaks with the directing team.

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

In nine months, artist and filmmaker Larry Clark has shot three features – Bully, Ken Park and Teenage Caveman. Chuck Stephens talks with Clark about his current work obsession.

ROMANCE NOVEL

Returning to his native Colombia with high-definition video camera in hand, Barbet Schroeder shoots Our Lady of the Assassins, a violent Spanish-language tale of a writer searching for impossible love. Ray Pride interviews the director.

SPIRITS MOVE ME

Having documented the life of graphic artist R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff tackles his first fiction feature – a screen translation of Daniel Clowes’s cult comics classic, "Ghost World". Ray Pride chats with Zwigoff

COMMITTED

On the eve of two theatrical releases – the sci-fi romance Happy Accidents and the insane-asylum shocker Session 9 – writer/director Brad Anderson speaks with Travis Crawford about maintaining a career as an independent filmmaker.

VOD CALENDAR

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COLUMNS

LOAD+PLAY

Scooter McCrae on music DVD releases.

IN PRINT

The Night of the Hunter, by Scott Macaulay; My First Movie by Ray Pride.

FEST CIRCUIT

Cannes International Film Festival, by Noah Cowan; IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival, by Rolf Gibbs; SxSW Conference and Festival Film Festival, by Josh Zeman; San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, by Justin Lowe; San Francisco International Film Festival, by Chuck Stephens.

THE SUPER EIGHT

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