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 ‘Filmmaking’
July 9th, 2009 - 9:23 pm § in Filmmaking, Screenwriting
Porn, Drama and Documentary
Introduction to Dramaturgy Last week I saw the German Documentary 9 to 5: Days in Porn. Porn, love it or hate it, is inherently interesting. The moral debate surrounding pornography is beyond the scope of this article. As a writer and filmmaker my biggest issue with this documentary was dramaturgica[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 7:38 pm § in News
Recent Developments in Film Funding
From Screen Daily and Indie Wire. Korea: The Seoul Film Commission has announced the six winners of it’s international co-production grant, which offers up to $15,600 of development funding to projects which will partly shoot in Seoul. “In order to qualify, the projects must be theatri[...]
June 26th, 2009 - 8:02 pm § in Filmmaking, Screenwriting
Merlin Mann On Getting Creative Stuff Done
Thanks to the wonderful John August for the link, It gets interesting around 12:00: Merlin Mann From The Sound of Young America[...]
June 24th, 2009 - 11:07 am § in Filmmaking, News
The World As We Know It Is Over?
Another excellent article in Indiewire today, discussing the current state of the independent film world. Ten major points are brought up by a panel of producers at the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF). Among them were Bob Teitel, producer of “Notorious,” which I missed at the Berlinal[...]
April 1st, 2009 - 12:00 pm § in Filmmaking
Cassavetes Directs
A good book, and a good quote; “There are no geniuses. It’s just a lot of fucking hard work and trying to get it.“[...]
February 14th, 2009 - 11:44 am § in News
Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival)
I’m a bit of a drama queen. After deciding not to write this blog anymore too many ideas came up for it; apparently I’m hooked. Some notes from the Berlinale: 1. Rejected by NYU, interview at UCLA next month! I’m very unsure of what life in Los Angeles would be like, especially aft[...]
February 5th, 2009 - 11:49 pm § in Filmmaking
D.U.M.P.S.
I was critiquing a friend’s short script today and I had to remember this list. It is both funny and tragic.[...]
February 4th, 2009 - 4:31 pm § in Off Topic
Christian Bale, Quentin Tarantino and the Italian Intern
I recently returned from a five day shoot in Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin. It was a low budget science fiction film and an amazing experience. As second assistant director my main job was watching out for the cast and extras, and making sure they made out of makeup on time. The makeup was very s[...]