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In the News (Wed 9 Dec 09)

  
  BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Film-maker Leni Riefenstahl dies
But she was adamant she was not a supporter of the Nazis, and had done the films for art and not politics.
But only last year, Riefenstahl was investigated for Holocaust denial after she said she was unaware that Gypsies which had been taken from concentration camps to be used as extras in one of her wartime films had later died in the camps.
After the war she was unable to find work in films, and turned to photography.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3093154.stm   (376 words)

  
 Film Secrets - Film Lingo
The original film that is used in the camera, from which a positive print is made for editing.
The shutter in film cameras is a circular disc that changes in shape to increase or decrease the exposure of the film.
The t-stops are calibrated to the actual amount of light that is hitting the film, rather than arrived at mathematically, as is the case with f-stops.
www.rivalquest.com /filmlingo   (3819 words)

  
 kamera.co.uk - feature item - Leni Riefenstahl: Documentary Film-Maker Or Propagandist? by Ellen Cheshire
The film was cut to rhythm in time to anthems and Wagnerian music creating choreographed images of endless numbers of men in uniform, marching in to and out of abstract shapes and patterns filmed from a variety of angles, reducing the men to geometrical designs.
The film was financed by the Nazi Government, commissioned by Hitler himself, completed with the full co-operation of all involved, with huge resources at her disposal - an unlimited budget, crew of 120 and between 30 and 40 cameras.
Throughout the remainder of the film one is stirred by the film's mix of power and certainty.
www.kamera.co.uk /features/leniriefenstahl.html   (1639 words)

  
 Film Comment
The film was shot in Super 16mm for $7,000 (excluding postproduction and the 35mm blow-up).
Heady is the word for the film, which doesn't yield its narrative in a single viewing.
And I'm really interested in film, and a lot of my favorite films are independent, in that the director has a lot of control.
www.filmlinc.com /fcm/artandindustry/primer.htm   (1177 words)

  
 The Film-Makers' Cooperative On-Line Catalog: L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The film is long and boring, consisting of shots of red paint being poured on "a wide variety of objects," the last of which is a hotplate.
Individual frames of the film are imprinted on the retina of the eye in a rhythm, sequence, and intensity that corresponds to Alpha-Wave frequencies of the brain.
Although the film may appear conventional on a technical level, conceptually this is not the case given that the work is based on situations where the sense of perception processes images in various time lengths according to the characteristics viewed.
www.film-makerscoop.com /catalog/l.html   (12647 words)

  
 MovieMaker Magazine | Film Festival Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition - Screamfest Horror Film Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the careers of talented writers and moviemakers within the genre.
Film Fest New Haven - Film Fest New Haven is a broadly focused, internationally recognized, independent film festival in September, located in New Haven, CT—home to Yale University.
Cucalorus Film Festival - Beginning with a magical event in the fall of 1994, Cucalorus has established itself as one of the few truly independent film festivals inthe world, serving the needs of moviemakers first and foremost.
www.moviemaker.com /festivals.html   (3957 words)

  
 Filmmaker Magazine
I love Bronstein's film Frownland and am really happy to be hosting a special screening of it with director Lodge Kerrigan at the IFC Center next Wednesday at 7:30 pm.
Two short films from his early years and his 2004 film on Michelangelo will be shown in honor of Antonioni, who died recently, but no homage to Bergman is in [continue]
Things are coming to a close here at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: the press screenings have ended, the festival videotheque is increasingly empty, and thoughts are turning to everyone's journey home.
www.filmmakermagazine.com   (800 words)

  
 Death of a film-maker
In December, 1930, the Workers' Film and Photo League was formed, which was a Communist Party “front” organization.
Elia Kazan's first Hollywood film using the “method” style of acting was Viva Zapata!, from a script by John Steinbeck.
Elia Kazan was no socialist but, within the limitations imposed by a profit-making film industry, he was able to highlight, sometimes quite dramatically, some of the problems as well as the struggles of ordinary workers, in a number of the movies that he directed.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/nov03/kazan.html   (1265 words)

  
 Robert Rodriguez's 10-minute Film School
That's the great thing about first films is that they have so much life and so much energy.
Film is slow, film is expensive, film is not creative - film take's too long.
All right I've got to go back and do my own films so I hope you guys learnt something today, I hope you grab some of these cameras and go shoot something of your own, I hope you write down the ideas that you have, the dreams that you have.
www.exposure.co.uk /makers/minute.html   (1321 words)

  
 Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The first half of the film, especially, is an intoxicating Welles-like collage (reminiscent of Welles' F for Fake) of fragments from all media.
You get a foretaste of the masterfully expansive pacing of the piece –and some of the films most darkly funny moments– during the first few minutes, as you catch privileged glimpses of the all the dramas main players preening candidly with spittle and comb, powder puff and pancake for their hour upon the stage.
The film eventually merges into a second film, as it were, a disturbing meditation on the death of those close to you, and on man's inhumanity to man, the horror of war and occupation.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0361596   (668 words)

  
 Low buget film maker Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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film.5netlock5.info /caught-on-film/low-buget-film-maker.html   (290 words)

  
 Black Film Maker
Among the films shown here was Symbol of the Unconquered, a frontier romance in which the lead couple almost doesn't come together because the fl hero believes the light-skinned heroine is white.
The film was thought to have been lost, until a print was discovered a few years ago in a Belgian archives.
In his film, Micheaux sets up a similar sequence, heightened by editing, but in this case the victim is fl, the rapist is white, and the story depicts the lynching of the victim's family.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/blkfilm.htm   (2030 words)

  
 Film Look Deinterlacing for DV - DVFilm Maker, aka DVFilmmaker
Maker has special support features for the Sony HDR FX1/Z1U the Panasonic HVX200, or the Canon XL-2 and Panasonic DVX100A.
But DVFilm Maker works by analyzing motion in each frame, and only changing pixels in areas of the screen in which there is movement.
Maker uses different methods and gets smoother results than MB, since Maker blends fields together instead of skipping fields when converting 60i to 24P.
www.dvfilm.com /maker/index.htm   (749 words)

  
 Chitradurga film-maker does country proud - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Bedi twins are the sons of wildlife film-maker Naresh Bedi and nephews of wildlife film photographer Ramesh Bedi.
A total of six Indian films made the shortlist for this year’s Panda Awards, the formal name for the Green Oscars, reflecting the growing wildlife film industry in India and other developing countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Iran, Puerto Rico, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
The production team says about the film: “It is a powerful critique of modern man’s mercenary attitudes towards nature and his anthropocentric conception of life and development which has wreaked death and havoc on the life and habitat of other species.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct162004/i5.asp   (734 words)

  
 Young Film Maker:
His best-known work, 'Chasing Buddha', was an official selection at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the film festival in Sydney, and won him a Best Director nomination at the 2000 AFI Awards.
I suppose my parents were a huge influence in terms of exposing me to a lot of film, a lot of music, a lot of great novels and great art, because they're both painters and stuff.
Even when you're sort of here – say you've got films funded or you're working with SBS, ABC – people imagine a wage, which is something that I've tended to forfeit on all my films.
www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_future/Transcripts/s829016.htm   (809 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Beginning Film Maker's Guide to Directing: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Film directing requires more than just being able to yell "action!", and no matter how good the material, a poorly directed film will not sell.
Writing for people who may have worked in film but have never actually directed, Renee Harmon, a veteran of the film industry, explains the nuts-and-bolts of film directing.
As much as I can appreciate the author's experience making movies, I find it silly to be taking advice on how to make films from someone who has been working "in the industry" for over a decade and has not had one commerical, or (apparently) critical success.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802773842?v=glance   (1238 words)

  
 A filmmakers filmmaker
But the film festivals are becoming a form of releasing independent films.
Soon, the cost of shooting film will become astronomical, because there will not be that many film labs offering year-long services.
The commercial film industry has moved toward computer generated imagery and the fantasy genre, leaving the window open for the independents to capitalize on the technology to tell ordinary stories in extraordinary ways.
www.releasing.net /filmmaker   (1512 words)

  
 indieWIRE
Chinese and Japanese Films to Bookend Pusan Film Fest
The film, screening in competition in Venice in the Midnight Madness section in Toronto, is described by the company as an homage to the spaghetti western.
Emerging films and filmmaking are in the spotlight during IFC Center's "New Talkies: Generation DIY" series, casting a spotlight on emerging filmmakers like "Hannah" director Joe Swanberg and "Quiet City" director Aaron Katz, but behind the scenes a new generation of film producers are also starting to make a mark, including Austin-based Savjani.
www.indiewire.com   (4139 words)

  
 Akira Kurosawa
For instance, the film demanded the importation of herds of horses from Korea, since such a large number were no longer available in Japan.
Donald Richie, in his essay A Definition of the Japanese Film (collected in his book of essays A Lateral View), compares the two films: "Though Kurosawa is not considered by the Japanese to be particularly representative of Japanese culture, compare his The Lower Depths (Donzoko) with that of Jean Renoir (Les Basfonds).
From The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/kurosawa.html   (1794 words)

  
 The Film-Makers' Cooperative
Please include card holder's name, card number, experation date, and card type at time of rental request.
Before any films may be rented, institutions must confirm their acceptance of our rental policy.
Selected footage of Phillip Glass (film by Harry Smith), Bill Frisell Trio (film by Bill Morrison), Dorit Chrysler (film by Bradley Eros) and Irena and Vojtech Havel (film by Marie Menken).
www.film-makerscoop.com   (212 words)

  
 Robert Rodriguez - Guerilla Film-maker
After shouldering his way into UT-Austin's Film Department by beating movies shot by their students he finally managed to lay his hands on 16mm film equipment.
Determined that if he was going to break into Hollywood he wasn't going to panic when he got there he decided to film an early feature script himself and sell to the Spanish video market allowing him to practice for a profit.
Shot in 20 days with a borrowed 16mm camera with best friend Carlos Gallardo (the film's lead) and no small measure of determination and energy 'El Mariachi' was a feature length movie made for $7000.
www.exposure.co.uk /makers/rodrigez.html   (496 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Guerilla Film Maker's Handbook: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Indie filmmakers Chris Jones and Genevieve Jolliffe are quite remarkable, not only for their achievements in the film industry but also for this wonderful compendium of how-tos and how-not-tos relating to the world of low-budget filmmaking.
I can say absolutely that this book is a necessary buy for anyone serious about making a movie and, from someone who's studied film, it'll teach you more than you'll ever learn at uni and possibly film school.
these are often in occordance to the writer's bias on their beloved action films using a quote by samuel goldwyn that surely could be used as an attack on guerilla filmaking(!): 'picture are for entertainment, message should be delivered by western union'.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0826447139   (1206 words)

  
 Mickey Grant, film maker Resume`
Released in 50 cities in the U.S. Purchased by HBO and BBC2.
Presently being produced by Moskito Films, The Netherlands.
Adjunct Professor of Film at the University of North Texas
www.creativehat.com /mresume.htm   (220 words)

  
 FestivalMaker 2.0 - the online video sharing film festival creator
FestivalMaker 2.0 - the online video sharing film festival creator
Powerful customization and user-friendly admin give you utmost control over your entire festival or community.
Festival Maker provides everything from the platform to the hosting that allows anyone to quickly get their website up and running.
www.festivalmaker.com   (129 words)

  
 Student Filmmakers, Student Films, Film Festivals, film Contests, film Schools, filmmakers store, Filmmaking Forums, ...
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 Legendary Surf Film Maker Jack McCoy's Tips & Tricks - Panasonic Australia
Legendary Surf Film Maker Jack McCoy's Tips and Tricks - Panasonic Australia
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www.panasonic.com.au /support/downloads/more_info.cfm?objectID=1672   (98 words)

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