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A HERO’S WELCOME

Mary Glucksman covered Jason Rosette’s Susan Hero in her “In Focus” column back in 2004, and now Rosette emails to say he is finishing his Santa Fe-shot film… in Cambodia. Rosette moved to Cambodia where he teaches video production at the Royal University in Phnom Penh. He’s got his film on 500 gigs of hard drive space, an occasionally updated blog up detailing his adventures in both Cambodia and in the trenches of film festival submissions, and a website where he aggregates all his filmmaking activities, including info on his previous film, Book Wars.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 25, 2006
STARRY EYES

Via Filmmaker‘s MySpace page comes word from the folks at the Studio City-based Starway Pictures, who have created a new blog devoted to their films and also technical developments in indie filmmaking. Starway’s Robert Sanders writes, “We’ll try to post our thoughts and feelings about ‘the process’ of filmmaking and the industry. For the hard-core gear heads and geeks, we’ll also discuss digital filmmaking technology and our philosophies about digital cinema. And maybe a rant or two.” Already up are some evocative L.A. location photos for their upcoming shoot, The 23rd Letter, fundraising trailers for their horror pic Shadow Falls, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 25, 2006
GROUP BLOGGING

Green Cine notes that filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake, who posts on his Filmmaking for the Poor website, has launched a new blog: Indie Features 06. The site allows several filmmakers who are all finishing films this year and screening them in festivals or theaters to post in a “group blog” format their experiences. Filmmakers include Ekanayake, the four Texas-based directors behind the anthology film Deadroom, Chris Hansen (The Care and Feeding of an American Messiah, and filmmaker Rick Schmidt, whose Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices was one of the first no-budget film books ever published.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2006
SHORTSVILLE APPEARS ON THE MAP

The folks who run Antville, the music site, have just launched Shortsville, a blog consisting solely of links to cool short films and commercial clips. Bookmark it now.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2006
NO BOO-YAH FOR THE INDIES

Here’s Jim Cramer on the video podcasting revolution: “Bloggers may be stealing readers away from newspapers, but when it comes to audio and video feeds, people will go for high production values. Which would you rather spend time uploading to your iPod: An episode of Lost or a grainy feed of someone prattling about their favorite celeb? So, for a few more years, the media we download will be the same stuff you see or hear on old media. The masses will have to wait for cheap, yet sophisticated production technology in order to win a wider audience. Until then, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 6, 2006
JULY ENDS IN DECEMBER

Miranda July says adios with a final post on her Me and You and Everyone We Know blog, offering to us as her going-away present an artful Google image tree that unspools her life for the past year.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 28, 2005
POOR CHOICES

A while back I linked to D.C.-based filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake, whose blog, Filmmaking for the Poor, covers a range of no-budget film topics. Today GreenCine draws my attention to his site again with this link to a good post for the New Year: Ekanayake’s picks for “10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2006.” There are a few obvious choices here, talented filmmakers who he’s eager to see what they do next. Miranda July, Andrew Bujalski and Caveh Zahedi fit into this category. But then there are people I don’t know as well, like Amir Motiagh, Andrew Dickson, and Elizabeth Nord. And […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 26, 2005
THE HERD AND THE TRIBE

The people over at Boing Boing have a piece up linking to this article on Fleshbot, this piece on SFist, and blogger Violet’s post on her Tiny Nibbles blog, all of which detail the decision by Tribe.com to apply Federal 2257 regulations to pages created by Tribe users. After December 20, all Tribe pages containing sexual content will be rendered “invisible” to the public at large. Comments Violet: “Now everyone is confused about whether or not they can put up a picture of their own boobies and not end up in federal prison. They’re confusing everyone, and kind of really […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2005
AMERICAN PANOPTICON

There’s been much in the mainstream media this week about the New York Times reporting that Bush via executive order — and not judicial warrant — authorized the wiretapping of American citizens. The political blogosphere, such as Kevin Drum, is discussing the issue in greater detail, commenting on the obvious conclusion that the spying Bush authorized is probably part of some new data-mining system of surveillance, something quite different than garden-variety phone tapping. Forgive my lack of surprise, but isn’t this what the NSA has been in the business of doing for years? And yes, the focus on American citizens […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2005
OH, TO BE A BLOGGER (PART TWO)

I’ll be sitting on a panel tonight at 7:30 at the Apple store on Prince Street organized by our friends at Indiewire. A sort of “meet the bloggers,” the panel brings together a bunch of us who write about film here in the blogosphere — mostly people who do it far more diligently and conscientiously than I: Karina Longworth (Cinematical), Alison Willmore (IFC News), Andrew Grant (Like Anna Karina’s Sweater), Aaron Dobbs (Out of Focus), S.T. VanAirsdale (The Reeler) and Michael Koresky (Reverseblog: The Reverse Shot blog). Eugene Hernandez of Indiewire moderates. Aside from the inevitable shop talk — blog […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 16, 2005

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