This is a look at the major accomplishments of American directing students and graduates for the year 2010. I have focused more on development and short films than on feature films. I chose 5 major categories where film students are present: The 25 Faces of Independent Film, The Student Academy Awar[...]
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September 11th, 2010 - 10:35 am § in News
Thank you Kickstarter Supporters!
My project was successfully funded on Kickstarter! Now Kickstarter will take 14 days to collect the money and remove their fees. We plan to shoot pickups (extra footage) in October and have the film finished by late November. Thank you so much to all of my donors! You can click on their names to go [...]
September 4th, 2010 - 1:28 pm § in News
September Cinema 2010
Sorry this one’s up a bit late. From fellow student Richard Parkin, a monthly list of independent, classic and art house screenings in Los Angeles. ___________________________ September is overwhelming. Comprehensive Chaplin, Tati, Kubrick, Bergman, Hitchcock and Carpenter retrospectives along[...]
July 30th, 2010 - 12:46 pm § in News
August Cinema 2010
Thanks again to Richard Parkin, fellow UCLA Directing Student: Nothing that exciting. The LACMA’s and New Beverly’s calendar seemed incomplete at time of compilation. Check back in with them throughout the month. _____________________________________________________________ August 1; 7:3[...]
July 20th, 2010 - 5:07 pm § in News
The 25 Faces of Independent Film
25 New Faces of Indie Film Unveiled – indieWIRE An excellent list to watch out for. A few film students, a few new media people, a few doc people, and a few actors.[...]
July 5th, 2010 - 1:17 pm § in News
July Cinema 2010
This is a list of all the independent and art-house screenings in LA in July, compiled by fellow TFT Directing student Richard Parkin. July 2; 7:30pm – Lisandro Alonso Retrospective: Liverpool @ Billy Wilder Lisandro Alonso in person. Very excited about this ongoing retrospective. Along with Rey[...]
May 19th, 2010 - 5:08 pm § in News
So You’re Moving To Hollywood/Foxes and Hedgehogs
William Boyd on Mark Rothko and the play Red | Art and design | The Guardian I recently read this play for a job I was working on. The discussion between Foxes and Hedgehogs is fascinating. Once again the ancient adage that Archilochus evolved (later popularised by Isaiah Berlin) seems particularly [...]
May 17th, 2010 - 2:26 am § in Off Topic
Avatar or Antichrist?
I wrote this in response to a debate going around about shortening attention spans and the death of art by commerce. I saw Trash Humpers by Hamony Korine on Friday in a packed, adoring theater at the Nuart. It is a film shot on VHS with no plot that involves, among other things, characters in [...][...]
May 14th, 2010 - 5:10 pm § in News
UCLA Focuses on Showbiz 101
A very interesting look at the two schools, including a look at what UCLA’s doing to try and catch up. UCLA focuses on showbiz 101 – Entertainment News, Brian Lowry, Media – Variety UCLA and USC often engage in spirited competition, although at times the scales have appeared almost[...]