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I Think We’re Alone Now.

by Caspar Newbolt on August 29, 2013

In 1983 Donatella Baglivo filmed an interview with the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It was an extensive interview that covered a number of subjects, and fortunately so as Tarkovsky was to die but three years later. About an hour into the piece Baglivo asks Tarkovsky what advice he had for …

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Lessons from the Sundance ShortsLab NY 2013

by Justin Ferrato on July 18, 2013

 

After attending the Sundance Shorts Lab at BAM this past Sunday, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of people wanting to write, direct, or produce a short and submit it to the Sundance Film Fest. For 8,000 submissions, there are only 80 films that …

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Who Wrote It Better? Filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on the Lena Dunham Phenomenon

by Desiree Akhavan on March 21, 2013

Lena Dunham has been coming up a lot lately in my therapy sessions.

I don’t feel safe in the world now that she’s out and about.  Let me clarify: my work is not safe- my potential career is in jeopardy.  We’re too damn similar and she beat me to …

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Exploring the parameters of story in a web series: “The 3 Bits” Case Study Pt 1

by The 3 Bits on February 28, 2013

It’s not like when we were kids we dreamed we’d grow-up some day and have our very own web series. Margaret wanted to be Mowgli. Max wanted to be a majorette. (No, really.) But here we are, and you know what? We really like making The 3 Bits.

We …

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Writing the short film: Making it something special

by Kat Candler on February 12, 2013

 

Kat Candler is writer-director based in Austin Texas, Kat’s award winning films have screened at Sundance, the Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance.

IFP so sweetly asked me to do a few write-ups on “Making Short Films”. I’m certainly not the expert by any …

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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 …

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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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Where Ideas Go When They Die.

by Caspar Newbolt on August 20, 2012

May 15th, 2011.
I am given a book by my favourite poet, Bob Hicok. In it there’s a poem about the 2007 Virginia Polytechnic Institute massacre – to date the deadliest shooting of innocent people by a single gunman in US history. This excerpt from the poem …

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