Leslye Headland on Theater vs. Film
by Jacob Appet on September 12, 2012Leslye Headland on the difficulty of making the jump.
Alrick Brown on Being a Black Filmmaker
by Jacob Appet on August 7, 2012Alrick Brown discusses unique challenges that face minority filmmakers.
From the IFP’s recent Industry Connect Event with DCTV and the NYTVF
Aesthetically Speaking.
by Caspar Newbolt on April 25, 2012Around March last year a friend of mine showed me an article about why the video game Angry Birds is so successful. The author Charles L. Mauro CHFP (Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional), was attempting to provide a cognitive scientific report on why the game has been so …
Film Project Markets, Dissected
by Mynette Louie on April 2, 2012Film Independent's Fast Track project market
Sometimes I feel like a traveling salesman, going from festival to festival selling my finished films, and from market to market pitching my new projects. I recently participated in my ninth project market on the “filmmaker” side, and I’ve done four of them on …
Keys to a Successful Film Launch Pt 1
by Jon Reiss on March 13, 2012Written with Sheri Candler
For the past six months, my company, Hybrid Cinema, has been working on the release of Bob Hercules’s new documentary film Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance,about the history of the Joffrey ballet. This is a capsule post to explain the highlights of launching a documentary into the …
Music for Film: Utilizing ASCAP as a Filmmaker
by Jordan Passman on January 19, 2012Jordan Passman (scoreAscore.com) interviews Sue Devine, Senior Director, Creative Services, Film/TV for ASCAP in NYC.
Passman: What is ASCAP? What do they do and how can they be a resource to filmmakers?
Devine: ASCAP is America’s leading performing rights organization. We’re a membership association owned and run by our more than 420,000 …
The Rules.
by Caspar Newbolt on January 18, 2012Rule 1. (to kill expectation)
Go into the film without having read or watched anything. Trailers are acceptable, as they are sometimes created by film directors themselves, though even that sometimes is questionable.
Rule 2. (to kill projection)
Assess what the film is trying to say or achieve within the realm of what …
‘THE WAITING GAMES’: NOT NEARLY AS EXCITING AS ‘THE HUNGER GAMES’
by Adam Bowers on December 16, 2011Ask anyone to describe me and they’ll say “Adam Bowers is a man-of-action.” If they say anything different, or talk about how I owe them three hundred dollars, they’re dirty liars.
Why am I a man-of-action? Because I “T.C.B.” all day long, which stands for “take care business,” because I don’t …
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