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Karina's Adventures in Park City, Chapter One: You're Ruining My Festival!
Filed under: Independent », Deals », Sundance », Celebrities and Controversy », Distribution », DIY/Filmmaking », Cinematical Indie »
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Reading Eugene Hernandez' blog whilst waiting the for the cab to arrive to take me to La Gaurdia this morning, I learned that David Poland and Jeffrey Wells have declared that Sundance 2007, which officially begins tonight, is, in fact, already over. You see, they arrived in Park City a good 48 hours ahead of me, took turns inserting their thermometers in the rectum of the festival, and rushed to their computers to report the reading: cold. In fact, according to Wells, EVERYONE is saying that this year's line-up looks "flat, so-so, nothing to write home about material...a couple of almost-but-not-quite- as-good-as-Half Nelson flicks, and apparently nothing even close to a Little Miss Sunshine-type breakout waiting to happen."Though tempted to reach for my phone to cancel the car -- a Sundance without a Sunshine is no Sundance for me! -- my more rational self prevailed. Instead, actually invigorated by the prospect of attending a film festival in which an over-hyped (and over-priced) Vacation retread steals headlines (and potential aquisition dollars) from ten or twelve films more deserving of market share, I zipped up my laptop and went downstairs. I went to the airport, got on the plane, and landed a little while ago. I even had my first Chik-fil-a in the Cincinatti airport during my layover. It was good. I ate too many waffle fries, though.
Rutger Hauer Documentary Premieres at Dutch Film Festival
Filed under: Documentary », Foreign Language », Other Festivals », Cinematical Indie »
Rutger, we hardly knew you.Don't worry; he's not dead (his career, now, that's open for discussion ... but I digress). The actor who 99% of the population know as "the guy from Blade Runner" has had a documentary made about his life -- no, really, a whole movie!
Written and directed by Simone de Vries, (Kinky Friedman: Proud to Be an Asshole from El Paso) Blond, Blue Eyes premiered last week at the Dutch Film Festival, and follows Hauer through a bizarre array of locations ranging from a farm in the Netherlands to his personal yacht (Rutger Haur has a yacht? I guess residuals from Buffy the Vampire Slayer still come in after all).
Hauer is currently working on his autobiography, so here's hoping there's at least one anecdote from the set of Blind Fury. The man also plans to direct a feature about Dutch banker Wally van Hall who saved thousands during WWII. (Think of it as Schindler's List, but with windmills.)
[via Film Threat]
Filmmakers on filmmaking - Indie Features 06
Filed under: Independent », Scripts », Distribution », DIY/Filmmaking », Movie Marketing », Cinematical Indie »
Filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake has started Indie Features 06, a group blog for indie filmmakers with feature films
in (or soon to be in) distribution. The set-up is kind of loosely based on the indieWIRE blogs and GreenCine
Daily, two of our fave film sites. The idea is that the participating filmmakers can either write posts to Indie
Features 06, or point to posts in their own blogs. They'll be talking about film related stuff, the fun of getting
distribution, submitting to festivals - all the gut-wrenching work of indie filmmaking that you have to deal with after
you've done the fun, creative part of making your film.
The blog is spandy-new but looks like it has the possibility to be a interesting read. Angry Filmmaker Kelley Baker has a great journal going about how he's touring Europe, showing his films and teaching. Another blogger has kinda sorta found an agent, and is agonizing over festival rejections. And Magicfying films, which has a film showing in NY right now called September 12 (I bet you can guess what it's about, but it may not be quite what you think). Film Threat liked it, so maybe we'll have to see about getting little paws on a screener and checking it out ourselves.
[ via Filmmaker Magazine Blog, who found out about it over at Green Cine Daily ]
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