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WEBFilmmaker Staff. “Made by Five People Who Love Cats”: Mary Dauterman on Booger. After the sudden death of her best friend and roommate Izzy (Sofia Dobrushin), Anna (Grace Glowicki) starts to act strange. At first, her odd behavior seems easily attributable to intense grief, but soon she begins to recognize physical abnormalities she can’t ...
The New Nostalgia of Touch: The Best Adult Erotic ... - Filmmaker
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · Candy Flip and Theo Meow/Meow Meow – The Sad Girls of the Mountains . Only a few minutes into The Sad Girls of the Mountains (Die traurigen Mädchen aus den Bergen), I had the deliciously disoriented feeling of having pretty much no idea what I had gotten myself into. Sad Girls is a black comedy feminist mockumentary eviscerating the patriarchy, activism, public attitudes towards sex work ...
“Am I Going to Have to Reshoot Half of This Movie?” Howard …
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · Writer-director John Hughes had just begun to make a name for himself with three films he made for Universal (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science) when Ned Tanen lured him over to Paramount with an overall deal designed to turn the filmmaker into a mogul.In less than three years, Hughes wrote, produced, and/or directed five movies for the studio (Pretty in Pink, Ferris ...
What Everyone Does on a Film Set - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBAug 24, 2015 · Responsibilities: Assembling and maintaining support equipment for camera including dollies, dolly track, and jibs; setting stands for lights and placing light shaping elements such as flags. Join this department if you like: Engineering, puzzles, manual labor. Know them by: Creatively-tied “signature” bandanas.
The Independent Screenwriter: Jon Raymond - Filmmaker
WEBMay 31, 2014 · in Filmmaking, Interviews, Screenwriters, Screenwriting. on May 31, 2014. Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt, Todd Haynes. Portland-based Jon Raymond has four screenplay credits, all in the last decade, to his name, but his iMDB page only tells half the story. Raymond began his career and is still well known as …
“There Is No Video Village”: DP Robert Richardson on ... - Filmmaker
WEBAug 1, 2019 · Richardson: Well, I’m way past that [amount of time] thinking back about Salvador. (laughs) Obviously I was extraordinarily frightened to take on a feature with Oliver. He’d won an Oscar for writing Midnight Express.He’d already written Scarface.Making a movie for the first time is about the same level [of frightening] as making love for the first time.
Documentary Producers Alliance Fights “Credit Creep” with …
WEBJan 16, 2019 · Other organizations endorsing the DPA guidelines include Cinereach, IFP, Impact Partners, Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Chicken and Egg. The guidelines were developed in conversation with these groups as well as over 100 working producers — including Joslyn Barnes, Kate Chevigny, Esther Robinson, Maida Lynn and Michael Gottwald — as well as in sessions at the IDA’s recent Get Real conference.
Feminist Pornographer Jennifer Lyon Bell on - Filmmaker
WEBMay 29, 2015 · I’ve known Amsterdam-based, San Francisco-bred, Jennifer Lyon Bell ever since we met over half a decade ago at Brooklyn’s much beloved Monkey Town — back when a DIY, Williamsburg performance space could afford to host a Sunday brunch for CineKink Film Festival award winners. (Bell’s Matinée ...
Searching for an Independent Distribution Strategy Amidst
WEBJul 16, 2020 · To “make a movie” is a huge undertaking, but then comes distribution, and a micro-budget film is even more of a “lift” than others. The smaller the budget, the less support and the fewer the production partners. A microbudget film usually has no attached talent agencies or sales teams, and any festival connection is usually up to the director.
Five Questions with Photographic Memory Director Ross McElwee
WEBOct 10, 2012 · Photographic Memory. Director Ross McElwee. When Ross McElwee heeded the call to become a filmmaker in the mid 1970s, he enrolled in M.I.T.’s film program and studied with pioneering cinéma vérité documentarians Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus. Lighter, smaller cameras and advancements in sync …