Tag Archive for the term: filmmaker

KOMA is an official selection at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, in competition for the Louve d’or. I was able to do a little electronic interview with the film’s director, Ludwig Wust (Note: if I knew how to make umlauts, one would appear over the ‘u’ in Wust)
SYNOPSIS
Hans, a taxi driver in a small [...]

Susan Seidelman, director of Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan and Sex in the City talks with Filmmaker Magazine about the way one would go about making movies back in the day, with no end goal in mind beyond telling a certain story in a certain way.
“Thinking back on it,” director Susan Seidelman writes, “there was [...]

Independent Film Week is entering it’s 31st annual manifestation:
http://www.independentfilmweek.com/
Throughout the event filmmakers who are participating this year will take time out to post their thoughts on the Filmmaker Magazine blog:
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/blog/
Here’s who you can expect to hear from:
Kristi Jacobson (Hungry in America, Spotlight on Documentaries)
Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson, a.k.a. Lost Footage Films (Radio [...]

This CC Attribution licensed article is originally from cool Canadian music blog NXEW and was written by that projects founder, the passionate Justin Beach. I added the film trailer video embeds and some emphasis all on my own.
Canadian music is more popular than it has ever been, inside and outside of Canada. Smart Canadian [...]

WHO IS KK DOWNEY? re-opens with an exclusive engagement at CINEMA DU PARC from Oct. 20th – 23rd. From tonight until Thursday, KK will play once a day at 9:30pm. If you haven’t caught it yet, this might be your last chance!
“the real thing…a truly funny movie”
John Anderson, VARIETY
“FOUR STARS”
John Griffin, MONTREAL GAZETTE
“…touching, [...]

Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old [...]

Dear Filmmaker, The 11th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
is seeking submissions! Please spread the word. MadCat seeks films directed
or co-directed by women that are produced ANY year. MadCat accepts ALL
GENRES – experimental, documentary, animated, narrative, hybrid, etc. The
Festival favors work that pushes the genre and expands notions of visual
storytelling.
Please go to http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org [...]

Chat it up! Why not!! And hey, maybe it’ll turn out you can lol with Ron Howard! There must be a Fonzie icon out there somewhere by now…
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will host its annual Open House and Live Internet Chat with many of the world’s most talented filmmakers on Saturday, Feb. 17, [...]