Making a game plan — wonder who holds the world record for most films watched in 10 days. Because of the Sundance/ Youtube partnership people can also watch some films that are premiering at Sundance, and films from last year’s festival too. For $3.99 you can watch some films like THE COVE. Will be interesting to see how this pans out over all. Spoke with the producers of BASS ACKWARDS and they said it was starting to work out pretty…
And last in my round-up of current competitive delight… the grand daddy of them all… the superb MO FILM competition which, being good members of Shooting People, is enhanced for you by the additional chance to win a Canon 5D. All the information you need is here http://shootingpeople.org/mofilm. International, serious names attached and offering a seriously career changing prize… if you’re entering one competition this month or next then it has to be MO FILM. Doesn’t it?
One great thing about this festival is just the random running into people. We ended up getting the chance to meet and talk with Eugene Jarecki on the flight. Hannah happened to be sitting next to him and we casually told him about our Mosquito film idea before realizing who he was, and he ended up giving us incredibly helpful feedback. Trish Dalton, Jesse Epstein, Hannah Rosenzweig Sean Flynn happened to be on the same flight Hannah R and Eugene…
OK, so you’ve done experimental cross platform narrative filmmaking and you’ve already made more short films than your agent approves of. Where next? Well how about cutting together a teaser for your feature debut and sending it to The Trailer Festival? Styling itself bluntly as “an event for the entertainment industry” this has a deliciously unflirty approach to attracting your submissive dollar. (thirty if you do this before the end of the month…) Here’s the pitch: The Trailer Festival will…
Last minute preparations for Sundance underway, leaving for SLC in a few hours. I’m interested in finding out how the festival feels this year – with John Cooper at the helm. There are new experiments with a Sundance/YouTube collaboration (indieWIRE Article explains), a focus on lower budget films, and Redford declaring “We’re going back to our roots.” Ingrid and I are covering the festival from the perspective of filmmakers trying to get the most out of it. I’m on a…
Neither hipster, nor fox but happily a hedgehog? Delighted that the world is full of many different ways of retelling a story but chiefly interested in telling your story on film? Well, in that case, why don’t you send your short films to a competition run by Aesthetica magazine? Founded in 2002, Aesthetica Magazine is one of Britain’s leading art publications. Exploring the varied nature of the arts and recognising the dynamics of contemporary culture, Aesthetica pushes the boundaries and…
Fans of Isaiah Berlin will be well aware that the creative world breaks down into foxes and hedgehogs. Those of you who bound through this world with a foxlike approach will doubtlessly adore the upcoming YARN festival, which offers us yet another chance to get multi-disciplinary. Or to lazily assemble the rest of this post by hacking about their press release… YARN is a brand new festival celebrating story and storytelling – showcasing film, theatre, music and literature and providing…
Rolling on from my post earlier this week about people who brazenly choose to express themselves in more than one discipline, I have come across not one but two multi-disciplinary festivals that are both looking to recruit talented people like you. Tomorrow I will turn my attention to Yarn but first in my inbox is Remix which promotes itself as, frankly, the coolest thing a hipster can do beyond actually hanging outside a brownstone and waiting for Lou Reed’s man.…
January seems to be submission time. Clever competition and event organisers must have twigged we’re all waking up from our festive slumbers and starting to panic about where the hell our lives are going… making us vulnerable to submissaphilia. I’ve been a victim of this cruel complex myself in the past, it drives the weary artist to reach out at any deadline they see advertised in the hopes that if they enter everything then they will at least get something.…
The magnificent seventh London Short Film Festival drew to a close last night with an event called Filmmakers In Bands in which… ok, I’m going to talk up to you and just expect you to work out what happened. I’ve played this night before at previous LSFFs and it was a joy to do so again with my current musical squeeze, the Glue Ensemble (of whom there is more here http://www.myspace.com/theglueensemble). In order to keep life simple you tend to…
