Sujewa Ekanayake

GUARDED FILMMAKER

Over at Sujewa Ekanayake’s Indie Features 06, the group blog where he’s invited filmmakers premiering their films this year to post, director Deborah Scranton has joined the mix. Her doc, The War Tapes, premieres at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. Click on the film’s link to go to Scranton’s own site, where she’s posted clips of the film and maintains a running blog in which her own writing is complemented by others involved with her film. And here’s how she introduced herself at Indie Features 06: I’m a film director, single mom, former competitive ski racer, New England farm girl, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 26, 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
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

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