by Kathryn Butt | 16 April, 2018 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Screenwriting
So, it’s that time of year again, Screenwriter friends. We all make resolutions in January about how we want to change certain habits and achieve our goals – so let’s take a look at how that’s going. Especially as creatives, often working intermittently across many...
by Dušan Mrđen | 29 March, 2018 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career
For our last venture into Filmmaking Tips, the ever so resourceful and smart Kathryn Butt and I have decided to finish off this era of films and joy by sharing what we think are the things that make a strong and successful filmmaking career. When you are making films,...
by Kathryn Butt | 19 March, 2018 | Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
Many great films have been inspired by works of literature. Typically novels lend themselves to adaptations, however, poetry has also inspired some wonderful films. Beowulf (2007) is probably the best known poetry adaptation, however its author remains unknown. So,...
by Tim Lorge | 7 March, 2018 | Directing, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
There are some films in which the production itself was so unbelievable that they spawned a separate film documenting or dramatizing the process. I’m not talking about a middling DVD extra. I’m talking an actual documentary made by someone other than the studio. For...
by Tim Lorge | 5 March, 2018 | Film History, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
In the Summer of 2014, I was bored with Netflix. Both my DVD and Streaming queues were filled with a ton of blockbusters and other flicks I heard I should watch but didn’t really want to. It was largely uninspiring. Then, all the filmmaking blogs were abuzz with...