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Spurlock Sisters at Biennale College Cinema: Week Two

by Kim Spurlock on February 4, 2013

For the Spurlock Sisters’ first blog entry, visit: http://filmmakermagazine.com/64191-spurlock-sisters-at-biennale-college-cinema-part-one/

They say that creative works are never really finished, we just let them go at some point.  I guess that’s what deadlines are for.  The new versions of step outline, budget and schedule for A Case of the Dismals were due a …

View from the Island

Spurlock Sisters at Biennale College Cinema: Week One

by Kim Spurlock on January 30, 2013

So I was thinking Don’t Look Now, but my sis had Scooby Doo on her mind as we drifted through the eerie fog on Venice’s Grand Canal. We were headed towards San Zaccaria, where we would catch a boat for the last leg of our journey to San Servolo island.

Mai …

Untitled, Maurizio Cattelan

In Praise of Doubt

by Amy Dotson on January 29, 2013

It turned out to be incredibly prophetic that my first day in Venice, Italy as one of the leaders for the Biennale College-Cinema was spent at collector François Pinault‘s incredible Punta della Dogana. This beautiful museum opened in 2009, with its closest neighbor – the Santa Maria della Salute Church- …

Memphis Biennale

Dream = Reality: Filmmaker Tim Sutton on Moving into Production at the Venice Biennale

by Tim Sutton on January 25, 2013

Leaving Venice at 7am, I was planning to shlep my way to the airport via two vaporettas and a bus – you know, back to reality.  Yet, by, divine intervention, I was lucky enough to hop a free ride in a water taxi with the Artistic Director of the Biennale …

Venice  Biennale 2012

Tales From Venice Biennale : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Tim Sutton

by Tim Sutton on January 18, 2013

I mentioned the Biennale Cinema College grounds are a former insane asylum, right?  Because we have all gone entirely bonkers.  The schedule has been one of crushing deadlines on rewrites that have occupied much of our free time, budget analysis and re-analysis and production schedule fine-combing …

Venice Biennale 2012

Tales from Venice Biennale with Tim Sutton

by Tim Sutton on January 16, 2013

I figured why not start with a couple of masterpieces to get me in the right frame of mind.  So, packing up to head off to the Venice Biennale College Cinema workshop to pitch my second feature, Memphis, I did the math for the long day of travel …

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