Fly Filmmaking

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 [Checksum Arcanius] Today, I went to see the Fly Filmmaking Festival, an annual staple of the Seattle International Film Festival where directors are given ten days along with a set of other restrictions (such as just 5 hours of tape) to make a ten minute film. In years past, this apparently has been devoted to documentaries on subjects drawn out of a hat. This year, it fetured narative films with open subjects, but with requirements including a location, an actress, a prop, and an action that had to appear in the film.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Haydenfilms Online Film Festival Blog 2] Unique Online Film Festival with $10,000 Cash Prize: The Online Film Festival is just one component of Haydenfilms.com which aims to be the premier on-line source for student and independent filmmakers, providing them with the best tools, products and services to showcase their projects. Haydenfilms.com also offers filmmakers the ability to search for information about other productions, network with others in the industry, ask or answer questions on message boards, obtain the latest industry news, find out tips and tricks on breaking into film, shop for filmmaking equipment and software, participate in Haydenfilms’ Director’s Contest, and more.

[OurDailyDead.com :: Home] 2005-05-25 :: Nessies and Tigers and Horses. Oh! My!: shaking your head and b) just plain screaming. Powers of Ten IMG Philip Morrison: Powers of Ten IMG ... Film Festival. The rest is pure Bollywood. And Mr. Merchant's death at 68 seems far too soon a passing... Ismail Merchant, whose filmmaking collaboration with James Ivory created a genre of films with visually

[Acrentropy] Jax Film Fest: Day Four: There are some defects in the film. As I mentioned, the film goes to rather extreme lengths to illustrate what an utter bastard Maxwell is. There is also a running joke throughout the film where the misogynist Bright is always running into female cops, never male ones. This is good the first several times it happens, but by the time one shows up outside his house looking like she's fresh off a photo shoot, it gets a little unbelievable.

[GreenCine Daily] Shorts, 5/18.: Tom Hall responds to one of Manohla Dargis's posts: "[T]he state of film distribution in the United States is far worse than she thinks... From my point of view, there is an entire campaign required in order to turn American audiences on to the pleasures of foreign film, a campaign that utilizes film festivals, grass roots marketing campaigns and an expansion of foreign titles from urban art houses into suburban and rural theaters." Plus: "Envy (...or Remembrance of Cannes Past)."

[Commonwealthfilm.com] Commonwealth Film Festival: Filmmakers were encouraged to go from B to A, work out where they want to pitch it and develop a festival strategy that would benefit the aims for their film.  They were also encouraged to be a bit more savvy around the thorny yet essential issue of permissions and copyright clearances for festival screenings, TV sales, and theatrical release, with music copyright seen as being the most problematic.  It was stated that the amount of paperwork necessary for the release of short film compendiums on DVD has stunted their growth (with the exception of the two Cinema 16 DVDs).  And the British Board of Film Classification was accused of dragging its heels in the face of alternative methods of exhibition brought on by the digital era.

[Tomvick.blogspot.com] Tom Vick's Asian Cinema Blog: Getting back to sculpting in time, I found that the films I liked least spent too much time laboring to bring their (often predictable) plots to a conclusion. It was a problem with a lot of the Southeast Asian films, but one that can be forgiven of filmmakers working in developing industries. It got pretty frustrating after a while, but in the midst of it all two films really stood out: Asghar Farhadi's Beautiful City, from Iran, which ended at on a perfect note of ambiguity, just before the subplots all came together, and Indian master Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Chased by Dreams, which unfolds in a series of narrative and visual motifs that seemed downright revolutionary when compared to the more conventional films at the festival.

[Tomvick.blogspot.com] Tom Vick's Asian Cinema Blog: February 2005: Getting back to sculpting in time, I found that the films I liked least spent too much time laboring to bring their (often predictable) plots to a conclusion. It was a problem with a lot of the Southeast Asian films, but one that can be forgiven of filmmakers working in developing industries. It got pretty frustrating after a while, but in the midst of it all two films really stood out: Asghar Farhadi's Beautiful City, from Iran, which ended at on a perfect note of ambiguity, just before the subplots all came together, and Indian master Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Chased by Dreams, which unfolds in a series of narrative and visual motifs that seemed downright revolutionary when compared to the more conventional films at the festival.

 [Thedailypage.com] Wisconsin Film Festival blog: Visual artist and UW-Milwaukee Professor of Film Rob Danielson is creating an outdoor sound installation/excursion for Festival visitors on the Vilas Hall 4th Floor Plaza. The installation is based on his study of the Plaza soundscape in contrast to, and in sympathy with, other Wisconsin soundcapes. The installation will run from Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3 on the outdoor fourth floor plaza near the Cinematheque of Vilas Hall at 821 University Ave. Rob Danielson produces work in sound, video, multimedia and installation.

 [Iofilm.co.uk] Video Blog Salam Pax - the Baghdad Blogger: Pax didn't go looking for fame. It came to him, and if anything the easy-going 31-year-old seems embarrassed by the amount of attention he has been receiving. But Pax who is gay, likes his alcohol and is an avid follower of Western pop, has struck a chord with his drily humorous, and often highly personal reports on the Iraqi situation.

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Posted at May 30, 2005 09:29 AM