[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 8:30 pm — Library Centre Theatre] “Surprises,” wow. There were many in developing the story. Discovering this unique sport of women’s powerlifting and how big it is in South Texas was a wonderful surprise for us. We also had no idea that Texas had a mandatory and competitive “One Act” theater arts program. That program gave us an opportunity to survey a broad range of teenager talent, but more importantly, it is turning out graduates who are truly interested in storytelling and were eager to get involved in either script workshops or actual production. As […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 5;30 pm — Library Center Theatre] The biggest surprise, which is always the biggest surprise for me when I make a movie, is what things stay the same and what feels different. It’s never what I expect. Terri is the biggest story I have yet tried to tell, in size and scope, and it took more people, more money, more everything to make. Though it was great that people got paid, it was still tight in the ways that were familiar; there wasn’t money to be wasted and time was as precious as it always is, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre] The biggest surprise for me in the making of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold was that we actually got brands and companies to not only agree to be in the film, but to actually pay for it. I called hundreds of companies and had hundreds of doors slammed in my face. I had people tell me how they’d “get reamed,” “be a laughing stock” or “never work again” if they took part in the movie. But every once in a while we’d get someone who would actually call back […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 3:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] Making The Bengali Detective was an incredibly intense period of filmmaking. I and my small team had no idea where our detective and his investigations would lead us. Each client brought their own revelations and twisting storyline. We had a central character die during the production, a subject who discovered her husband was sleeping with her brother’s wife. There was a poor grieving mother who then became a suspect in a triple murder case. And our hero detective turned up one day to greet us in a silver-and-gold […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011Although any cinephile worth his salt knows that movie watching is but a fleeting experience, few comprehend that it may be one they won’t be able to repeat. The studios who produce films aren’t museums — they’re in the business of protecting their own assets, not our cinematic history. Without intervention, scenes, moments and entire back catalogues might be lost to the inevitabilities of decay. Sundance newcomers Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows tells the story of the National Film Registry, a government-appointed body that each year adds another 25 films it deems “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” […]
by Mary Anderson Casavant on Jan 22, 2011Below we posted four teasers from Mark Pellington’s Sundance feature, I Melt with You. They consisted of the male leads, and now counterpoint is provided by Sasha Grey.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 21, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Temple Theatre] Making The Interrupters was, by its very nature, a series of hoped-for surprises: Producer Alex Kotlowitz and I wanted to be awakened in the middle of the night by a violence interrupter and told we should come quick to capture them dealing with a potential mediation. No such moment was more surprising than “Flamo,” a young man full of rage, making his entrance into our film by opening his front door and angrily flinging his cell phone out into the snow. He was on a warpath of revenge against this […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 8:45 pm — Library Center Theatre] The element of surprise is built into the process of making movies. Every film shoot is meticulously planned out in the smallest possible detail. And every plan is thrown out the first day of filming. This was definitely true for On the Ice. We were trying to shoot a complex film with a large cast of non-actors, and many locations in one of the most remote places in the world. Our most difficult location was the frozen Arctic Ocean. Specifically we wanted to get to the lead, the place […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:45 pm — Broadway Centre Cinemas V, Salt Lake City] If I am completely honest, I would say that the biggest surprise was getting into competition at Sundance! I took on The Flaw because it seemed like a really difficult project to pull off. The brief was to make a film about the fundamental underlying cause of the present economic crisis. The first problem was therefore to identify what that was, to get beyond the stories of Wall Street shenanigans (which were obviously a big part of what went wrong, but equally clearly not the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Egyptian Theatre] No surprises. Just overwhelmed by the commitment of the cast and crew. Proud of them all. Very proud.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011