Young Filmmakers from Conflict-Ridden Countries Tell Stories of Love and Sports

May 16, 2012

by Cristina DC Pastor. What’s your film about? I asked Ahlam Darwish, 17, from Jerusalem, while waiting for her film to screen at the Curious Pictures studio in Manhattan. “It’s about a very talented, young girl who plays the piano, but what many do not know is that she is about to go blind,” Darwish [...]

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Desmond: The project, the process, the movie

May 15, 2012

from Knife Edge Creative. Ten years ago, I was asked by Heart n Soul Director, Mark Williams, to direct the filming of the Heart n Soul Experience – a pumping soul/funk outfit fronted by Heart n Soul singing legend Lizzie Emeh. We worked on a number of films documenting, communicating and campaigning around Heart n Soul’s key [...]

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Lights. Camera. Invest! Putting Filmmaking in the Portfolio

May 14, 2012

by Paul Sullivan. FOR most people, investing has not been fun these last few years. At best, it has been stressful. But there are investments that have nothing to do with stocks or bonds or real estate that may be at least enjoyable if not always moneymaking. I’ve come up with about a half-dozen, and [...]

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Taiwan to continue expanding filmmaking industry

May 13, 2012

by Elaine Hou. Taiwan will continue to expand and promote its filmmaking industry, following a strong performance by a number of  in 2011, Premier Sean Chen said Thursday. Chen said related government agencies should take advantage of the Chinese-speaking market and the Economic Framework Cooperation Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China, which has expanded the [...]

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War and revolutions an inspiration for filmmakers

May 12, 2012

by Farid Farid. War and revolutions are fertile grounds for the growth of , highlighted in a small Lebanese film festival in Sydney. War and revolutions are fertile grounds for the growth of documentary film-making in the Arab world. A mini-film festival showcasing such films opened in Sydney last week. Australian visual artist and Blake [...]

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Lloyd Kaufman: Independent Cinema’s True Champion

May 11, 2012

by Michael Varrati. This very weekend in the Springsteen-lauded town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, a convergence of freaks, geeks, and celebrities will occur to celebrate all things cinema. The unifying event is known as Tromadance, and even amongst the film making community, it is relatively unique. Unlike large institutions such as Sundance or Cannes, [...]

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Filmmakers Following a New Script for Success at Tribeca Film Festival

May 10, 2012

by Paul Grondahl. Filmmakers shot short films on cellphones and the Tribeca Film Festival screened them and streamed the content digitally via an iPhone app. A dozen of the feature films shown last month at Tribeca were low-budget indie projects funded by Kickstarter, a “crowd funding” Internet site that helps creative people use social media [...]

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James Cameron on Chinese Filmmakers, Censorship and Potential Co-Productions

May 9, 2012

by Edward Wong. , director of “Titanic” and “Avatar,” among other well-known movies, visited Beijing in mid-April for the Beijing International Film Festival. The festival was screening the 3-D version of “Titanic,” which had recently opened in theaters here. More important, Mr. Cameron was here to meet with people in the Chinese film industry to [...]

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Michael Moore Finding It Harder To Get People To Talk to Him

May 8, 2012

by Kathy Shwiff. Michael Moore’s success as a documentary film maker has made his job more difficult because more people refuse to talk to him on camera, he said Sunday afternoon at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. “They’re afraid to talk to me, so I have to send in my production assistants to [...]

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Douglas Trumbull Fuels New Filmmaking Paradigm with NVIDIA Quadro GPUs

May 7, 2012

from btlnews. Industry visionary Douglas Trumbull has been pioneering new technologies and filmmaking techniques since 1968 when he served as special effects supervisor on . Winner of this year’s prestigious Gordon E. Sawyer Award recipient from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Trumbull has also been nominated for three Oscars, (for his work [...]

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