Summit of independent creative producers hosted by MoMA, Indiewire, and Zipline Entertainment in December 2009.
I’m very fortunate to be friends with many accomplished independent film producers–people whose films have screened at the best festivals, won significant awards, gotten picked up by major distributors, earned healthy gross receipts, and …
Video Village, Indie-Style
Not every director is suited for low-budget indie filmmaking, and that’s OK if you’re Terrence Malick or David Fincher. But chances are, you’re not…or not yet, anyway. I get a fair number of calls from biggish directors and producers who are having trouble raising money for their …
Actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) delivers the closing keynote address from Envision 2012: Stories for a Sustainable Future.
Here, he discusses his career, issues of sustainability, and the merits of social issue filmmaking.
Envision 2012 was presented by IFP, the United Nations Department of Public Information, and the Ford Foundation on …
Around 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 …
Bennett Miller (writer/director, Moneyball, Capote) discusses Barry Lyndon and how the screenplay is only one facet of the spell that Kubrick’s film casts.
While there are an enormous amount of elements that go into making a film (like cinematography, sound, and hair), many directors would argue that the most important element of all is the performances you get from your actors. For a long time, I could have sworn it was hair, but …
When I first decided to make Future Weather I thought the gods would condemn me to a life of shame and hypocrisy if I did not produce the most sustainable film possible. This was 2007. Al Gore had spoken. Peak oil was a hot topic. And ‘green’, ‘sustainability’, ‘local’ and …
Bennett Miller (Director, Moneyball, Capote) explains how characters and their stories can transcend themselves and mean much more than what lies on the surface.
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