Making-of Voila - Picture by Ferhat Sen For this second and final part about Low to No Budget Filmmaking, Miles Maker, No-Budget Film School, Sean Baker and more participants gave great insights about: how to produce a low to no budget film how to hire a crew how to handle casting and ...
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'We are shooting a no-budget feature film.' We hear this sentence all the time, we say it ourselves, but what does it really mean? What is a no-budget film? Can you really say you made a movie for $0? What about food? post-production? parking? What about permits, insurance and SAG? What abou ...
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Perfume/Fashion ads have always been a lucrative and attractive business both for actors (see Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johanson, Charlize Theron, Vincent Cassel, Brad Pitt etc.) and directors (see Scorsese, Aronofsky, David Lynch etc.) Unfortunately, few of them are memorabl ...
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12 Monkeys is one of my favorite sci-fi movie and yet, it took me a long time to watch The Hamster Factor after @LaFamiliaFilm pointed out its existence. The Hamster Factor is both a full-length documentary and 12 Monkeys' official behind-the-scene, ordered by Terry Gilliam himself to protect ...
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Take a seat, have a beer and listen to indie pioneers filmmaker Ed Burns and producer Ted Hope talking about their career and how failure played its unavoidable part in shaping who they are and how they arrived where they are today. Burns and Hope met almost twenty years ago, after Burns' fi ...
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After Neil Gaiman and Alicia Keys, it's Robert Rodriguez's turn to launch his project, named Project Green Screen and ask his fans to help him make it happen. Rodriguez, who made his debut 20 years ago now, with one of the first truly DIY film, El Mariachi, participates in the Blackberry ...
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Few weeks ago I stumbled upon a DP/30 1h interview of director Darren Aronofsky, cinematographer Matthew Libatique and editor Andrew Weisblum who were then promoting Black Swan few days before the Oscars results. Aronofsky being one of the current director that has influenced me the most, I ...
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Being myself a science-fiction aficionada and working on a sci-fi script, I am regularly trying to find interviews, scripts and behind-the-scenes from films in this genre I have enjoyed. Today will be about 'Moon', an independent science-fiction film directed by Duncan Jones, with Sam Rockwel ...
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Sundance Film Festival still feels like the Grail of Independent Filmmakers. In disgrace for few years after too few distribution deals were made and too many not-so-indie projects were selected, it really picked up again two years ago, when its Grand Jury Winner, Like Crazy, sold for $4 mill ...
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Yesterday the industry's world was spinning around the Oscars' nominations and many snubs, such as Looper for best original screenplay, revived 2009 memories about District 9, one of the best science-fiction movie that has been out in recent years (and there has been many of those). District ...
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