All posts tagged "Callboard"
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Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates
Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s Choice. Shot exiting a dark...
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Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film
Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling it to distributors or to audiences. That’s the premise...
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Dream-Come-True Scenario: Scenarios USA Pairs Students with Big-Name Professional Talent
Scenarios USA, a national nonprofit with an educational mandate, teams its annual writing contest winner with a working filmmaker to collaborate on a short with...
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Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History
Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003 documentary series The Blues, which...
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Letting Sparks Fly: Sundance’s Three-Year-Old Ignite Program Gives Young Moviemakers Space to Grow
As Sundance settles comfortably into its fourth decade, the festival hopes to draw—and shape—new filmmakers and audiences, particularly as methods of creating and consuming film...
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Casting From Your Couch? Mobile Casting App UpCast Aims to Cut Your Time Spent Finding Actors
As mobile technology shakes up everything from dating to banking, Drew Doyon, founder and CEO of UpCast, wants to do the same for the casting...
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Can an Algorithm Really Produce a Useful Movie Budget? Film Budgeteers More or Less Hits the Target
A new online app that promises to create a budget for your independent film in a few easy steps based on information you provide through...
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Freedom (of Expression) via Film: Voices of the Children Teaches Moviemaking to Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
“Guppies swimming in a tank, with the entire world peering in.” That’s how Aaron Wagner describes the Syrian refugees living in the immense Zaatari refugee...
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Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters
Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is specifically targeting crowd-funded films via...
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Callboard: Single In the City? Try Click at a Flick
Speed-dating and the Internet may be the “blind dates” of the new millennium, but now unattached urbanites in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...