Any of y’all going to Park City are  spoiled for choice for cool workshops to attend this year! The Filmmaker Summit is brought to you by the very wonderful people at Slamdance, Workbook Project and Open Video Alliance. We’re fans of all three so if you can’t make it to the Summit be sure to participate online and remember that it will be streaming live on Jan 23rd too. Here’s a statement from the producers of the event: The mission…

Digital Dive is a free, one-day immersion program to help you improve your digital media literacy. Experts will present case studies, product demos, and practical information about how to get your feet wet with website, mobile phone, social media, and cross-platform production. A collaboration between Sundance Film Festival and Jigsaw Global, the workshop will be held at New Frontier on Main, and it is perfect for filmmakers and film industry professionals with minimal, hands-on digital media production experience. OPEN CALL…

Ooh my head. Bloody Mary’s followed by Guinness is oddly similar to eating a steak with a peppery tomato salsa. Plus a great deal of alcohol. Never the less last night at the London Short Film Festival screening of the Vauxhall Branchage 48hr Challenge films at the Roxy Bar and Screen, I was in the mood for celebrating. Not because the film Chris and I made, “Truth In The Valley” was the ultimate winner of the generous £1,000 prize, because…

We’re big fans of Jon Reiss’ book, Think Outside the Box Office. Jon is offering filmmakers a really great consultation opportunity so if you’re headed to Park City you’ll want to read this: As some of you might know, one of the reasons that I wrote Think Outside the Box Office was after those first Filmmaker articles I wrote in Fall ‘08 about my experiences distributing my graffiti doc Bomb It, many filmmakers contacted me to help them with their…