Ryan Moore’s documentary Manny, on boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, gets an auspicious premiere on March 8, 2014 at this weekend’s SXSW. The first-time moviemaker spent years trying to get his documentary made, and finally succeeded with the help of what he calls “the invisible hand” (and a chance bathroom encounter with Mark Wahlberg). Manny is [...]
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is stuff-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, it’s so packed we had to split it into two parts! In Part 2 we are featuring interviews with directors J.J. Huckin, Glenn Kiser, Mark Cummins, Aaron Himelstein and Christiane Hitzemann. Take a look! NewFilmmakers LA (NFMLA) is a non-profit organization designed to showcase the innovative works by [...]
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is stuff-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, it’s so packed we had to split it into two parts! In Part 1 we are featuring interviews with directors Aaron Murtagh, Denise Davis, Jacob Groll, Jonathan Ade, Julian Doan and Joe Wikla. Take a look! NewFilmmakers LA (NFMLA) is a non-profit organization designed to showcase the innovative works [...]
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cinequest Film Festival isn’t shy about its home’s rich history of technological revolution. In fact, as it enters its 25th year in 2014 (opening next Tuesday, March 4 and running to March 16), the festival continues to embrace and tout new innovation in technology and storytelling—highlighting films that [...]
Attention all moviemakers! If you thought being paid to travel around the South and screen your movie sounded too good to be true, think again. The South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is just that – a tour that gives you the opportunity to travel to small communities around the South, earning money [...]
Presented in alphabetical order, the following are 10 moviemakers who made career breakthroughs at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as nominated by our little team of stalwart movie-watchers. These names represent, for us—induced by the festival’s chaos into a heightened subjectivity, not to mention the inevitable lacunae amongst our coverage (none of us saw Imperial [...]
Lucky Bastard, directed by Robert Nathan and co-written with Lukas Kendall, brings new life to the faux-doc genre in this fast-paced porn-thriller. We got Nathan and Kendall to recount the creation of their smart, uniquely updated, genre-bending film. Lucky Bastard is an NC-17 “porn thriller” about an adult entertainment shoot gone wrong. A website gives a regular [...]
Securing distribution is that final nail in the construction project of making a movie—but it’s so hard to tell what exactly goes through the minds of a potential buyer. We Make Movies actor/writer/producer Andrea Dolbec (Hot Zombie Crush) sat down with film distributor Precious Hilton, CEO of Hilton Entertainment Group, to get the dish on [...]
The Youtube era has undoubtedly ushered in a new generation of storytellers. Timothy Rhys explores the vision of WeVideo, an affordable new cloud-based editing program, by speaking to CEO Jostein Svendsen — a man who believes his company is revolutionizing the way this generation will tell and share its stories. While wandering around the San Jose [...]
