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Filmmaker Magazine Highlights Twenty-Five New Indie Faces
Filed under: Critical Thought », Cinematical Indie »
First things first: Jamie Stuart has made a marvelous short for the latest issue of Filmmaker Magazine. Stuart had only a week and a half to prepare, shoot and start editing the film so he could meet his deadline for reviewing Apple's new software program Final Cut Studio 2, but the result is maybe the best thing I've seen this summer. That's only the tip of the iceberg, though, as a glance at the table of contents for the Summer 2007 issue reveals. Features include interviews with George Ratliff (Joshua), Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn), Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) and Jason Kohn (Manda Balla) -- all available online -- plus, in the printed edition, more talks with Steve Buscemi (conducted by Tom DeCillo), Goran Dukic (Wristcutters: A Love Story), Frank Lin (American Fusion), Shane Meadows (This is England) and the three-man team that directed The Signal.
The magazine's annual survey of new talent, "25 New Faces of Independent Film," is essential reading. The new faces include directors Jennifer Venditti (Billy the Kid) and Calvin Reeder (Little Farm, Jury Award winner at AFI Dallas), cinematographer Sean Kirby (Police Beat, Zoo), actress Jess Weixler (Teeth) and multi-hyphenate Stephane Gauger (Owl and the Sparrow), but, really, all of these "New Faces" deserve the exposure and further investigation. There's also 3,200 words from Alicia Van Couvering on how to benefit from state tax incentives, columns by Anthony Kaufman and Mary Glucksman, festival reports and a new feature, "Load and Play," covering recent DVD releases. From what I've sampled so far, it's another terrific issue. And if you haven't done so already, be sure to bookmark (or add to your feed reader) the Filmmaker Blog.
Karina's Adventures in Park City, Chapter 3: Party Gossip
Filed under: Sundance », RumorMonger », Newsstand »
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Remember when I said I was swearing off Main Street? That vow has been broken already. Saturday night, I headed down to the Delta/WireImage Lounge (no, I wasn't making that up in yesterday's post -- it actually exists) for FILMMAKER Magazine's 15th Anniversary bash. 15 minutes after the party's official start time, the slow-moving line to get in was already trailing some ways down the block. Inside, revellers (including various members of the Four Eyed Monsters camp, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, and SXSW Film's Matt Dentler and Jarod Neece) enjoyed free Absolut and Stella Artois (served up by bartenders dressed as porntastic stewardesses), as they attempted to chat over the blare of Coldplay and The Shins. Here are some of the hot topics of conversation:A.J. Schnack, director of They Might Be Giants doc Gigantic and About a Son, the forthcoming doc about Kurt Cobain, discussed the difference between opening a film at Toronto (as About a Son did), and opening at Sundance. "At Toronto," Shnack says, "It's like everyone is there to find out, 'Are these Oscar buzz films good enough?' I mean, we got enough press, but Toronto is a festival where it's still possible to play under the radar. Unlike Sundance, where everyone's like, 'What's the great discovery? Where's the new talent?'"
Filmmaker Garrett Scott, dead at 37
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Obits », Cinematical Indie »
Documentarian Garrett
Scott, whose Occupation: Dreamland
(made with co-director Ian Olds) powerfully depicts the life of
American soldiers in Falluja and was shortlisted for the best documentary Oscar, died in an accident on Thursday at the
age of 37. Scott's film is nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards' Truer Than Fiction prize, and he had planned to
attend today's ceremony; his shocking death will certainly give the normally celebratory ceremony a somber air. Though
Dreamland was only his second film, Scott was already well-known in the independent film community. On the
strength of his debut Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story -
which told the story of "a man who stole an Army tank and drove it through the streets of a local suburb" -
he was named one of Filmmaker
Magazine's 25 New Faces in Independent Film for 2002, and the outpouring of grief and affection at IndieWire
indicates that the respect and regard of his peers only grew over the next few years.Occupation: Dreamland will premiere on the Sundance Channel next month; the Independent Spirit Awards will air this afternoon on IFC.
Transit strike and NY indies
Filed under: Sundance », DIY/Filmmaking »
On the Filmmaker blog,
Scott Macaulay ponders how the now-ending transit strike might have thus far impacted New York producers trying to
hustle their features through post in time for Sundance. "Fortunately," he writes, "the project I'm
working on is picture-locked and all elements are to the appropriate vendors. My worry is with the vendors and their
employees, hoping that the strike doesn't slow them down." He goes on to ask others involved with NY productions,
Sundance or otherwise, to shar their horror stories. The major catastrophe for us is that I missed two press screenings
on the first day of the strike - Casanova and Rumor Has It – and will be able to write a
straight review of neither. How should I handle this conundrum? What would you like to see instead? And if you have
other movie-related strike stories, do tell. Now that it's all over it's time to take stock – and take the L
train into city for the first time this week.
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