Just a quick note from the Sundance Film Festival, currently underway in Park City, Utah, that the festival is making 10 shorts from the fest available for free on iTunes. From the home page of the festival (here), click on the banner on the right and you will be transported to their iTunes home. I’m [...]
It’s a sad story behind the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant – a filmmaker’s life was cut short by a heart attack. “His friends, family and colleagues established this development grant to help other emerging filmmakers reach their potential.” The grant funds travel and accomodation to attend the Full Frame Documentary Festival. Applications are due [...]
I just got back from Sheffield Doc/Fest and boy o boy, do I feel bad for UK filmmakers! The “clearance culture” as the folks at the Center for Social Media call it, is totally out of control. It is so bad that I at one point an Irish filmmaker told me that the UK has [...]
Documentary magazine editor Tom White pointed me to a great article by filmmaker Paul Devlin over at The Independent. Devlin has a new film, BLAST!, that he launched at this year’s HotDocs. He shares his experiences navigating the festival experience with valuable insight:
Festival programmers want virgins. So choose wisely where your film is going to [...]
I’m getting this out to you a bit late to submit, but another great initiative using film to engage the delegates at the Democractic National Convention. From the website (where you can watch submissions thus far…):
Cinemocracy is a platform for commentary and inspiration for citizen reporters, activists and filmmakers. Free to enter, free to view [...]
There are some really exciting film events being planned around the national political conventions! Yesterday the Impact Film Festival announced their line-up of films. About the festival (from the website):
Impact Film Festival is a four-day event held during the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis. IFF will showcase two to three socially-themed [...]
It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. [...]
The Sundance submission deadline has passed; SXSW is looming (early: Nov. 16; late: Dec. 7). But thousands of films are made each year, and many are not appropriate for these big, industry-driven (read: sales) showcases. Don’t get me wrong… submit your film to your dream festival, because, hey, you never know! If you don’t get [...]
I’ve been haranging filmmaker and writer Harriette Yahr to contribute to this blog on the subject of short films, which she is working on (thank you Harriette!). But she has been very busy since Sundance (I linked to an earlier article on the film Strange Culture) and she just got back from Florida reporting on [...]
Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky shares some creative whimsy at a masterclass at this year’s IDFA. While there is the usual dose of festival updates and such, new this year is the Daily Online website sporting some nice clips such as this, articles and even a short blog by Canadian doc filmmaker Peter Wintonick (Cinema Verite, [...]
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