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Toronto International Film Fest covered by Filmmaker Magazine. Toronto news.

Toronto International Film Festival covered by Filmmaker Magazine

Sundance Film Festival as covered by Filmmaker Magazine

Sundance Film Festival as covered by Filmmaker Magazine

Austin Wiggins, a senior at Pepperell High School, finished first in the Art Institute of Atlanta’s high school scholarship competition held last month. Wiggins won a $15,000 scholarship for...

James Franco has graduated from New York University. The '127 Hours' actor - who was dressed in a traditional purple robe and black mortarboard - joined his peers at the university's Tisch School of the Arts to receive a Master of Fine Arts...

James Franco has graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in film-making from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Bhumika, the cute actress, who shared screen with many top heroes of the Tollywood had a strong desire to direct a film for a long time. In order to find the intricacies in film making, she launched a production house on the banner of ‘Downtown Films’ and

In general, motion captured film making is still a little strange - I suppose we have Robert Zemeckis, what's called the Uncanny Valley , and movies like A Christmas Carol to blame for that - but for me, that Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are making

Scott Roxborough Project will see Von Trier deconstruct the film making process by forcing Scorsese to remake a film five times. read more

Pirates in cars, on ships and on beaches! Sword wounds! Mermaids flopping in the breeze! Check out this 16 minute behind-the-scenes video covering our shoot day for "The Adventures of Young Jack Sparrow"! Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY

Using an awesome and easy new technique, Zack is going to show you how to make some incredible scifi armor for under $60! Tune in tomorrow for an epic and action packed test film! Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutoria

Young Jack Sparrow, beautiful girl pirates, swording fighting and Mermaids. All this and more during Jack's rise to becoming a captain for the first time aboard a mutinous pirate ship. Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tu

Just in time for Captain Jack Sparrow's return to the big screen, Zack shows you how to make a foam pirate sword that can be used for both sword fights and stunts! Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutorials including spe

Three sexy, female thieves attempt to rob the world's largest diamond museum. Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutorials including special effects, props, and camera equipment. 'Build' episodes on Mondays and 'Origina

Now here's something a little different for Backyard FX! Zack does a little Mothers day tribute with a Fake Pregnancy Belly! Make sure you tell your mothers "Happy Mothers Day"! Indy Mogul's Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutorials

We have been shooting in Cannes serving international TV outlets for the pastten years.  

One of the most controversial movies of all time A Clockwork Orange was screened at the Salle de Soixantieme, with the presence of Malcolm McDowell and Christiane Kubrick . This screening was a remastered version of the film, as it is the 40th anniversary

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Normal 0 Uma Thurman poses upon arrival to the 2011 amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Benefit Gala (AFP/File, Martin Bureau)  CANNES, France — Monaco's Prince Albert II and his bride-to-be Charlene Wittstock joined other celebrities on Thursday for an AID

Normal 0   Lars von Trier poses during the photocall of "Melancholia" (AFP/File, Francois Guillot) CANNES, France — Cannes barred provocative Danish director Lars von Trier Thursday amid a growing backlash over his remarks about Ado

So I finally got myself a GF1 (no it's not a replacement for the 5D) and I'm having issues trying to hack the firmware. I've read reports that mac...

Why don't the D5100 or D3100 let you adjust exposure compensation after hitting auto exposure lock? For filmmaking it's not so much an auto exposure...

Its not the unibody version... Its the older 15inch model. Specs: 2.4 C2D 200GB Hard Drive 2GB of RAM Superdrive According to mac2sell.com its...

I am gonig to be working on a project soon and I need some advice. I am shooting with a dvx100a with redrock M2. I have Premiere, AE, Vegas...

Hi, I've read lots of post about making diy HDD recorder for EX1, EX3 cameras so I thought I might try but wondered if anyone has tried a USB 3.0...

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This blog post is about crowd sourcing. Which, in the past, was called "having a whip round". There are a lot of producers trying to raise money in this way for their films, but I see two trends that are working above all others. Below are just two exampl

This month of the podcast, myself and Danny Stack discuss...News on BBC Writers AcademyHow do get yourself established?Is it worth going to Cannes?Review of Dr WhoTim goes along a Picasso tangent looking at Las Meninas.Competition time - win goodies.

I was at a great workshop recently with Ted Hope and Christine Vachon. These are two legendary American producers. Between them they have produced well over 100 films. Some of the most exciting and relevant films of the past 20 years.There was loads of gr

I took part in a corporate event this week, with guest speaker Gary Rhodes. Now Gary didn't rate my chocolates. But I will let him off because he did tell a story about that night's dinner from which I learnt an important lesson.Showing the effort behind

At the recent Southern Scriptwriters Festival myself and Danny did a talk on Writing for Online.This caused a slight worry for us - as there isn't really much to say about the actual writing of online material. All the classic elements of writing remain t

A few long-time blog readers will remember a feature proposal of mine called Circumference. It was a narrative film, where the protagonist was a salesman. The interesting new business model that went with it was that as the main character he would step ou

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by Jay Stone. At the press conference for the animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 2, someone asked Angelina Jolie whether the powerful fighting tigress, for which she supplies the voice, had a bigger role because a woman directed the movie. It wasn’t that

from CBC News. Organizers of Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival will administer a $1-million documentary production fund geared toward nurturing emerging African filmmakers. Hot Docs executive director Chris McDonald announced the new fund, backed by Toron

by CityTownInfo. Video-sharing website YouTube has partnered with the University of Southern California and Columbia College Chicago to help aspiring filmmakers improve their digital media skills, reported YouTube in their blog. The Chronicle of Higher Ed

by Simon Gallagher. With a little less than a week to go until I land at Nice Airport and get the hugely unglamorous Hack Bus into Cannes along with my boys from ObsessedWithFilm.com to begin FSR’s official Cannes film festival 2011 coverage, now is surel

Here is a project that needs our support. Natalye Vivian and Jan Floor are currently producing a music video and documentary focusing on the celebration of troops returning home from Afghanistan this summer. Their goal is to bring light to the joys of hav

by Marc Campbell. Ben Van Meter’s experimental movies of the 1960s are informed by psychedelic drugs, music , and light’s magic act on 8mm film stock. They reflect (literally) the mind-altering effects of psychedelia as they helped create it. Van Meter us

I’m sure you’ve been poking about on the internet and come across many differnent forums.  Have you noticed that everyone is talking about this mysterious thing called “film look”?  I’m sure you have. The way people talk abou

Just like everything else in life worth doing, there is a steep learning curve to becoming a great film maker.  This is true whether or not you are trying to break in using the traditional route or the entrepreneurial route. The traditional route is to st

The other day I wrote about The 9 things you need to do if you really want to be a film maker. The very last item, Making a Bad Ass Trailer, may be most important item on the list.  In fact, despite my continuing mantra of finish the film that I keep harp

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Have you ever noticed the one thing that all of the biggest horror movie franchises have in common?  I’m talking about the big ones:  Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm street, and so on. It just so happens that this weekend we shot our fi

Yesterday, I told you how Listening to ’so called’ experts could destroy your film career before it even starts.  Today I’m going to share with you the few principles you really need to know.  If you’ve ever dreamed about being a director, the

Well, sort of. The Indie Eye is being combined into the main IFC News blog. So head to IFC.com/news/movies for continuing film coverage.

We're living through a golden age of Bill Murray interview -- which is to say he's actually doing them. On TV, Letterman's the only host sharp and pissy enough to keep up with a guy whose public appearances almost always involve some kind of performance a

In an interview with genre cult figure Philip Ridley at Twitch comes the following disclosure: "The kind of films I've been interested in making are not very easy to get off the ground. They don't fit into a neat box or category." It's a variation of a co

Despite his status as one of the more cerebral comics to emerge from the '70s, Albert Brooks -- unlike rough stand-up contemporaries Woody Allen and Steve Martin -- has never been much of an essayist, and certainly not a book-writer. Until now: next May w

There was something refreshingly old-fashioned, in this week of Mel Gibson, in the sight of George Clooney arriving at a Milanese courtroom to a press corps cluster so big the judge had to get a bigger space to accommodate all the journalists and paparazz

Tucked inside the controversial but long overdue financial reform bill that passed yesterday was a clause that will mean a lot to the movie industry. The hot disputed box-office futures market that had been set to launch this summer -- in which investors

Thoughts on Flash: "Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple

CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Revenue Comes FromNote where Final Cut falls in the pantheon.Note Apple's complete and utter lack of presence at NAB, even when they released new laptops during the show.We Are Not A Priorit

Pay $100, Jump From the Top of Vegas' Stratosphere - Stratosphere - GizmodoWish I'd known while in Vegas.

Hitachi Working On Glasses-Less 3D LCD - Hitachi 3d lcd - Gizmodo: "We've always said glasses would prove the barrier for most people considering buying a 3DTV, but it's not yet known whether the parallax barrier technology can actually compete with

Solar Path Recorded By Pinhole Camera Over Six Months - Mr mallon solar path - Gizmodo: "Between the months of June and December last year, 'Mr. Mallon' was filming the sun's activities on a single film cell, which lay forgotten in his back garden. T

Phantom Flex Camcorder Shoots 1080p Video at 2,800fps - Phantom flex - Gizmodo: "This particular one has a 4K 2,560 X 1,600 CMOS sensor with 12bit color depth. As mentioned before, when shooting 1080p it films in 2,800fps, but you can get 1,560 when

Douglas Burgdorff makes films you can’t watch in front of your parents or at work, but their hypnotic, messed up beauty make them the guiltiest of morish viewing pleasures. I spoke to Doug about shaming the family name and asking strangers to follow

Mutant Sperm – Porch Casserole – Prick A selection of films from the warped, and highly creative mind of Douglas Burgdorff

Debut feature Falling Overnight takes us on a 24 hour ride through LA with Elliot and Chloe as they fall in love. Although the setup sounds ripe for mawkishness, director Conrad Jackson’s light hand never let’s this burgeoning romance fall int

Falling Overnight (2010) Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a beautiful young phot

Since we last spoke to director Gabriel Tupinamba (DN94), he’s left England for his native Brazil, but has continued to create the distinct shorts that brought him to our attention in the first place. Gabriel’s new film After (Depois) is his a

After (2010) The story of men who survived the end of the world – and of those who didn’t even know it was over.