If you've one of mentorless.com avid readers, you are aware of my admiration for Darren Aronofsky and his body of work. Discovering that two of the behind-the-scenes shot by Niko Tavernise were available online in their full version was pretty much like fast forwarding to Christmas 2013. T ...
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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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I started looking a little bit into details at Sundance 2013 and realized that when you broke them down, there were even less slots available to have your film in competition than I thought. This year had 12,146 films submitted, and out of those, only 121 are in competition (!). Then, as it wa ...
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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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Kickstarter is one of the crowdfunding platform that has been a game changer for many artists and entrepreneurs in barely four years. Many projects have seen the light of day and gained media and public attention through it, and many independent filmmakers (and even mainstream filmmakers) are ...
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In 1983 while in Italy prepping for Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky and writer Tonino Guerra shot Voyage in Time, a 63 minute documentary that screened at Cannes' Un Certain Regard in 1995. Asked by an Italian 'fan' what advise he would give to young filmmakers, Tarkovsky gave two advice that ...
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It happens sometimes, I get to talk about a woman who has been successfully working in the industry (and who is not an actress or a producer). The fact is: there are many more women working in the industry that I know of, but they are very poorly represented in the media and you have to want to ...
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It's been several months now that a growing frustration has expanded on my twitter account regarding indie documentaries making it very very very hard for anyone who doesn't live near the Lincoln Center to watch them. I don't understand what would motivate indie producers and directors n ...
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Back in January, Ridley Scott and Youtube announced they were launching Your Film Festival, a free and worldwide opened entry film festival looking for shorts under 15 minutes in any genre that were celebrating the power of storytelling. Phase 1 (sending your film) closed March 31st. Ph ...
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Three days ago the IFP Minnesota hold a Producer's Conference with Pariah's producer Nekissa Cooper, The Descendants' producer Jim Burke and Motherland's producer Jennifer Steinman. Marketing and publicity specialist Sheri Candler, who is no stranger to mentorless, was also there to talk abo ...
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