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Interview with the Writer/Director & Producer of Stationary
Picture Credit: © Daniel D. Moses I caught up with the writer/director, Louis Chan, and producer, Jonathan Caicedo-Galindo of Stationary, a short film portraying the reunion of estranged friends, drug dealer Che (Rebekah Murrell) and reformed, soon-to-be-graduate...
6 Ways the Film Industry Can Adopt Sustainable Practices
With over 700 films produced every year, the film industry has a transformative effect on the environment. The casts and crews involved in making movies are large groups that often include over 250 people. The transportation, food service, and accommodations for this...
Film Reviews: Are They Make or Break?
Within the film industry, it’s widely thought that movie review platforms have a significant effect on the success of a title. Moreover, such feedback can also influence the future creations of independent filmmakers. However, despite the negative perceptions that...
Your Character: The Soul
The Soul is right up there with death, light, and darkness as one of art’s most profound symbols. Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives and The Lighthouse are two films with unique approaches to existence by using the Soul as an indirect symbol. The motifs of...
Shooting in a Ghost Town
Remember Will Smith and Tom Cruise’s characters, alone in two fictitious versions of a deserted New York (in I Am Legend and Vanilla Sky respectively)? Probably the most famous British version is Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, where Cillian Murphy’s character Jim wakes...
The Female Film Club is Launching
The Female Film Club is founded by Nicole Lieberman (Italian-Israeli) and Liza Van Der Smissen (Dutch). They met at the BFI London film festival in 2017 and found out they live one street away from each other in NW London, inevitably many creative coffee dates...
Leader of the Pack: Branding for the Future of Indie Film
It’s a strange time, huh? Especially for those of us working in film. Big film releases have been pushed back, often ending up on streaming platforms instead of the big screen. Cinemas have been finding it nearly impossible to open safely, so drive-in movies are...
The Rise of Technology in Filmmaking
Technology has changed the way of living for everyone. From newborns to elders everyone’s life has changed. Technology doesn’t only have one or two meanings, instead, it has different prescriptions in the field of industry, scientific knowledge, and applied sciences....
Raindance Pic(k)s: Festival Programmers’ Film Suggestions for Lockdown – UK Films
When you are a film buff, filling up all those long, long hours that were suddenly gifted to us all by coronavirus (always look on the bright side of life, right?) is easy. Watch a few films; and then watch some more. What might not be so easy is navigating through...
How to Make a Living as a Filmmaker
The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the precarious nature of working in the Film and Television industry. Up to 96% of the workers have lost all of their income as a result of the pandemic. I was fortunate when the pandemic hit. As a qualified, part-time medical...
