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Win a Copy of A Place at the Table
Courtesy of Magnolia, we’ve got five copies to give away of Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson’s Sundance doc A Place at the Table, which received critical acclaim for its insightful and engaging analysis of the American hunger crisis. The first five respondents to answer the following question correctly will receive a copy of the DVD: According to the trailer, one in how many kids in the United States will be on Federal Food Assistance at some point in their lives? Email your answers to nick@filmmakermagazine.com. Here is what R. Kurt Osenlund had to say in his interview with the directors for Filmmaker: If Food, […]
by Lorcan O'Brien on Jun 25, 2013 -
Inside a Three-Minute Film Competition
On the first Sunday of July, a group of filmmakers gathered at the Salem Willows Park in Massachusetts to participate in a Three-Minute Film Challenge. The brainchild of local d.p.s Rick Macomber and Paul Antico, the event was as much a gathering of enthusiasts as it was a competition. “I was watching a 48-hour film fest,” says Rick, “and I had an idea that maybe we could do something like this, with a group of people, and [a film length limit of] three minutes. I’d never tried anything like this, and it was my first narrative attempt.” “We’d talked about […]
by Michael Murie on Jul 18, 2012 -
GREG JACOBS, “LOUDER THAN A BOMB”
The world’s largest youth slam poetry competition is the subject of Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel‘s audience-pleasing doc, Louder Than A Bomb, a high school competition pic in the tradition of films like Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom. For a decade now the Louder Than A Bomb competition has brought together budding young slam poets from over 60 Chicago high schools for a series of juried team and individual readings. The contest is highly competitive — one school goes home with the prize — but the event itself provides something far more valuable than competition; it is one of the few non-sports related […]
by Brandon Harris on May 18, 2011
