Maureen Ryan
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Pre-Course Work
With most incoming film students being required to make shorts during their undergraduate or graduate studies, what exemplars of the form should they look to for inspiration? Filmmaker asked a number of friends—all filmmakers—who teach filmmaking at a cross-section of institutions to list the short films they think all incoming students should check out and be inspired by. Howard A. Rodman, professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts: I consistently recommend to my students—whose films often lead with cinematography, visual effects and sound mix—that they see Andrea Arnold’s Academy Award–winning 2003 short film Wasp. Adequate direct sound, wobbly cam, minimalist VFX, yet […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 11, 2018 -
Credit Risk: Student Debt’s Impact on Post-University Film Careers
“My credit isn’t what it used to be,” admits Fabian Euresti, who graduated from the film directing program at California Institute of the Arts in 2010. A child of farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley, Euresti made shorts, including 2010’s Everybody’s Nuts, that have played at prestigious film festivals in Europe (Vienna, Oberhausen, Tampere) and the U.S. (Los Angeles, Full Frame), but he’s currently got more than $100,000 in student debt and remains without a steady job to pay it down. “Knowing what I know now,” says Euresti, “I would have been more diligent in procuring grants and scholarships […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Jun 16, 2017 -
Haunted Houses and Hidden Spaces
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Behind the familiar Internet most of us inhabit skulks the dark net: unlinked, encrypted, password-protected sites and pages serving as forums for everything from marijuana-by-mail sales to mutual suicide webcam pacts. Author Jamie Bartlett is director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Media at the United Kingdom think tank Demos, which makes him well qualified to dive in and find out what the deeper implications of the dark net might be. Some British reviewers have taken issue with Bartlett’s optimistic assessment that these unregulated channels are by and large a good thing; […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 28, 2015
