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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Mozilla, in partnership withThe Tribeca Film Institute, The Center for Social Media at American University, ITVS and BAVC, launched yesterday The Living Doc Projects, that has for goal to "produce events, projects and code aimed at revolutionizing Web-based documentaries, using the power of ...
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While Sundance still feels to many like the Graal of Independent Film Festivals, competition is getting tougher each year. If you sent your short this year, you are not without knowing that your work was competing against 7,674 other shorts, for 64 slots. Out of this 64 movies, 9 are now comp ...
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Despite my reluctance to promote film festivals that use an online voting system as a filter for a qualifying round, 'Your Film Festival' feels like a too big of an opportunity not to mention it. Youtube and Emirates, in partnership with Scott Free Productions (Ridley and Tony's production hou ...
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The Sundance Film Festival is about to start and like many this year, I won't be able to attend it. Luckily, the festival has a Livestream channel that will cover ten events you will be able to watch wherever you are in the world: If you would like to RSVP to any of these ...
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we believe in doing stuff. get it out. learn. move on. do more. Straight 8 statement couldn't have better summed up what I believe is the most important aspect of what being creative means, and the fastest to forget when you try monetizing it: doing stuff. After my last month post about tal ...
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Every contest has its limitations and more often than I wish, if you want to get into a Festival it's more about who-you-know and timing than mere talent or work quality. But if the traditional way of doing it isn't perfect, it still leaves a small window to unknown and isolated filmmakers to f ...
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Warning: If, like me, you don't have any great hidden knowledge or a rare talent to create a Steadicam with a left shoe and a chewing-gum; but enjoy discovering what comes out from people's ingenuity and learn from them, fear no more, there will be something for you to take out from this arti ...
Continue Reading![[UPDATED] Last Minute Contest: 60 seconds Short For $37,500 Total Awards.](http://www.mentorless.com/wp-content/themes/obscure/timthumb.php?src=http://www.mentorless.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Contest-MEgaPath2.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&a=tc "[UPDATED] Last Minute Contest: 60 seconds Short For $37,500 Total Awards.")
UPDATED AUGUST 20th, 2011: Find in red below the new deadline and prizes. MegaPath launched a Tech Talk Video Contest for a chance to win a Grand Prize of $14,000 in cash. I found out about it this morning, and although there is only three and a half days left to participate, here are a fe ...
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Having its own gear is a good way for independent filmmakers to cut down budget and sell themselves at a higher rate for freelance jobs. Within the next six weeks, three running competitions will close, and the good thing is that they all offer Equipment as a Prize: 1 - CreativeLIVE Vincent La ...
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