The road of the novice filmmaker is paved with thorns. There is an extremely apt metaphor used in the last edition of film school confidential: “Far more people are making low-budget independent films today than the market for such films can sustain. It is said that during the California gold [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Film School’
July 1st, 2009 - 5:43 pm § in UCLA Film School
The World’s Foremost Expert On Bees Knees: Going to UCLA Film School.
Now that I have told my wonderful boss that I am leaving, I feel free to write about the process of applying to film schools. I applied to NYU, Texas and UCLA in America and the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin for Directing. NYU and the DffB rejected me outright. Texas didn’t get [...]
June 22nd, 2009 - 9:38 am § in News
I need the eggs.
An excellent article by James D. Stern in Indie Wire over the weekend. In it he quotes the end of Annie Hall, one of my favorite films. At the end of the movie, as at the beginning, Allen uses a joke to explain what is happening in his life; “I thought of that old joke, [...][...]