SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.
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PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 1
SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.
White Knuckles: Almost Sundance
the dreaded e-mail
I received some interesting status updates and had some brief conversations about being on alert about receiving some sort of notice from Sundance by e-mail this past week - one way or another we were going to find about if our films got into the film festival. I considered the implication – [...]
CHANGES IN THE COLLABORATIVE NATURE OF CINEMA
I wrote this in response to a recent blog post from Filmmaker Magazine editor Scott Macaulay, after our NEW BREED panel on ‘Creative Collaboration’ at DIY DAYS Philadelphia. He wrote: “what would filmmaking that’s specifically designated as “collaborative” look like. How would its power relationships shift? How would its production practices change? And how [...]
RE: CENSORSHIP
CENSORSHIP IS GOOD
Censorship is a good thing when it is used in immediate ways and a bad thing when it is used across the board, or after a film is completed. I think as filmmakers we have a certain responsibility to not only ourselves, but to our viewers’ psyche while we are making our [...]
RE: MANAGING EXPECTATIONS WHEN YOUR FILM HAS NEVER BEEN TO A FESTIVAL.
I’ve never been to a really large festival like Sundance or SXSW, but I intend to go someday regardless of whether or not my film gets in. I see the merits of showing up, meeting people, listening to others, sharing your work, and more importantly - learning from the experience. I have been [...]