I don't do #FF. I have rarely done it and long long time ago, I wrote a post explaining why I didn't feel comfortable doing it. That said, I regularly want to shout out 'Hey, I think this person is great and everybody should follow him/her!' so I have decided to do it my own way. In t ...
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Jamie Benning, the man behind the excellent filmumentary Raiding the Lost Ark is back with a 2h30 piece dedicated to the making of Jaws and it's worth every minute of it. Benning spent 16 months collecting old archives, getting exclusive interviews and putting together this homage to Spielb ...
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I've recently read 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind''s script for the first time and I was surprised to discover a prologue and epilogue in it that not only I couldn't remember from the movie, but that also changed quite dramatically the story's interpretation. Charlie Kaufman and Mi ...
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So, you want to be a storyteller, possibly on film/video, possibly on a dozen different mediums, and you are well and alive in 2013. Well, that's a good news as we are in the midst of a revolution that is opening up hundreds of new ways a) to tell stories and b) to reach and connect with people ...
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The Hollywood Reporter has released its Drama Showrunners Roundtable for the Emmys. This year is a mix of old blood and new blood (but mostly old blood) with newcomer: Beau Willimon (House of Cards) D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) Matthew Weiner (Mad Men) Alex Gansa, (Homeland), ...
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Last week, Miles Maker tweeted almost 200 great tips about how to deal with low to no budget filmmaking. This week, Maker's tweeted from another No-Budget Film School's event and shared priceless insights about the Art of Pitching during writer/director and USC teacher Janet Scott Batchler's t ...
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TV shows don't have yet as much space as it I'd like them to on mentorless, but as Shows gets more and more ambitious and the line between 'Film Talents' and 'TV Talents' has almost faded away, quality content to understand how TV works, what makes a good Show and who are the people behind it a ...
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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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Paul Thomas Anderson, that I shouldn't present anymore, sat and talked with the Los Angeles Times' journalist John Horn about writing The Master, finding the character vs finding the frame first, doing research, directing actors from a script you've written etc. PTA is in this very tiny clu ...
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With more than 2 million online students and a win as 'Best New Start Up of 2012', it is hard to believe that Coursera, a website offering free access to online education from 29 International Universities hasn't celebrated its first birthday yet. Coursera is a simple and efficient website ...
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