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WEBPeter Rinaldi. “Sit Here. Stand Here. Work Here. Slap Her Here”: Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio on Phantosmia. Since the late 1990s, Lav Diaz’s cinema has explored the Philippines’ troubled history with colonization, authoritarianism, corruption, poverty, macho-feudalism and the tensions that animate and enliven the sociopaths of today.
Back to One, Episode Seven: <i>Blue Bloods</i> and <i>Candy …
WEBMay 29, 2018 · Sami Gayle has played Nicky Reagan on the hit CBS drama Blue Bloods for eight seasons, performed on Broadway a few times, acted opposite Adrien Brody in her first film, and she’s only 22. She now stars in Candy Jar, a fun and smart new Netflix film set in the world of high school debate, which was written by her brother Chad.We talk about the unique way the work deepens when you have played ...
Movie Theaters to Receive Billions in Relief Funds as Part
WEBDecember 28, 2020 update: After delaying his signature by several days, President Trump signed the COVID-19 relief package containing the Save Our Stages act.The final specifics of the act, as released by Senator Chuck Schumer’s office, can be found at the conclusion of this article, which has also been updated.
“I Always Try to Find Something Better”: Nuri Bilge Ceylan on
WEBDec 17, 2014 · Over the course of his seven feature films – the last five of which have won prizes at Cannes – the Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan has moved from a dramaturgy primarily based in photography (in films such as 2002’s Distant) to one based firmly in screenwriting, as in the elegant structure and dialogues of 2011’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Where Have the Low-Budget Movies Gone? - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBJul 12, 2021 · Summarizing what he calls “the new normal,” one producer says, “What was 18 months ago a $2.5 to 3.6 million budget is now a $3.5 to $4.6 million film. And it is very hard to be non-IATSE unless you have three actors in house for three weeks and are budgeted safely under $2 million.”. Nonetheless, there are producers working on micro ...
Welcoming Vadim Rizov as Managing Editor - Filmmaker
WEBin Columns. on Apr 14, 2014. I’d like to welcome to our Filmmaker staff our new Managing Editor, Vadim Rizov. After an exhaustive job search — thanks to the over 200 of you who applied — we hired Vadim, who previously covered the True/False Film Festival for us. Many of you know Vadim’s bylines from Sight and Sound, Little White Lies ...
What Everyone Does on a Film Set - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBAug 24, 2015 · Responsibilities: Assembling and maintaining support equipment for camera including dollies, dolly track, and jibs; setting stands for lights and placing light shaping elements such as flags. Join this department if you like: Engineering, puzzles, manual labor. Know them by: Creatively-tied “signature” bandanas.
The (Approximately) 30 Movies of 2021 Shot on 35mm
WEBJan 18, 2022 · In Macedonia, director Teona Strugar Mitevska shot most of God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya digitally, but used 35mm to capture exteriors because, as she wrote in an email, “we were concerned with having detail in the sky as well as detail in the white snow. We used the 35mm camera from Vardar film, the state agency from Yugoslavia times. It’s a camera that’s rarely used and never ...
Five Things We Learned About Festival Strategy and Film
WEBFeb 15, 2023 · We did the impossible. We made a feature film. When our docu-horror Residency was accepted into the International Film Festival Rotterdam, we learned that we needed yet another miracle—we needed a sales rep to get our film in front of the right audiences.It used to be that getting selected by a festival like IFFR meant automatically getting acquired by a sales rep, but those days are long gone.
Producer Data: The Numbers Don’t Lie (The Truth about
WEBMar 16, 2023 · The caveat is that our sample size is not large or representative enough to draw conclusions about the overall likelihood that a given film will make money in a given budget range (you cannot, for instance, say that a film made for less than $50,000 has a 40 percent chance of breaking even and/or making a profit).. What is extremely useful, however, is to look at the trends across the budget ...
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