Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Film Festivals on Feb 14th, 2010
This article was written by Brian Newman. “I recently attended the IFFS Summit in Las Vegas, where I spoke about new online strategies for film festivals. The IFFS is kinda like a trade org (but less official) for film fests around the world, and the Summit I attended was exclusively US fests (they have another [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Feb 4th, 2010
This article was written by Sachin. “Another film watching year is in the books! My final total of 338 films seen in 2009 is lower than the 445 films seen in 2008 and 385 in 2007. However, the quality of films I saw in 2009 was much higher than that of the previous two years. [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Jan 25th, 2010
This article is an interview transcript from the Sundance Festival. “The Sundance Film Festival is now under way, but it couldn’t come at a worse time for independent cinema. Most of the major studios have closed their indie divisions, and the recession has dried up outside funding for just about anything without a star attached [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking, Film Festivals on Jan 19th, 2010
This article was written by AJ Schnack. “There’s a bunch of other great American film festivals that do good work for documentaries and filmmakers. And if our Top 25 Film Festivals list was completely US-centric, the following ten film festivals would all make the list. Here’s an alphabetical list of 10 more American festivals that [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Dec 21st, 2009
The Trailer Festival will take place on April 29th, 2010 at the ICM Screening Room in the MGM Tower, Century City, Los Angeles and will be hosted by Lloyd Kaufman. Only trailers will be screened and the audience will be exclusively entertainment professionals. This is an opportunity to get your work seen by companies like [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Nov 26th, 2009
“When “Slumdog Millionaire” premiered at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival, audiences cheered for the uplifting story about a kid from the Mumbai slums who wins big on a game show. After it went on to take home the coveted Audience Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film’s award season performance went on to [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Nov 17th, 2009
“Twitter is so hot right now, you guys. It’s so hot it influences things totally unrelated to Twitter, like the Nikon Festival—a digital film fest that challenges micro-auteurs to create 140-seconds-or-less digital videos. Obviously, Ashton Kutcher is involved.” Read this article from Gizmodo. ———- Sign up now for your own FREE monthly subscription to “The [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Nov 3rd, 2009
“Home movies have long been a training ground for Hollywood careers: With backyard for backlot, Steven Spielberg and the Coen brothers belonged to the Super-8 generation, and Robert Rodriguez taught himself by shooting on a JVC camcorder and editing with two VCRs, but the results were generally too scrappy to share beyond a select audience [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Oct 19th, 2009
“Film festivals and politics may make uneasy bedfellows at times, but most international programmers are adamant it is their duty to present culturally and politically diverse films. Five leading festival chiefs tell Screen why.” Read this article from Screen Daily. The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking How to Work (and Survive) in the Film and Television [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Oct 1st, 2009
“I’m not sure how many in the audience of the Wednesday morning session of the Film and Television Forum will share this sentiment, but in my next life I’m coming back as Lucas Cruikshank. The Nebraska teenager, a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn, has been hoovering up dough thanks to three dozen short videos, posted on YouTube, where [...]
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