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by Sylvie Dumont | 16 November, 2018 | Directing, Film History, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Screenwriting, Technical Craft
In his revised introduction to Shot By Shot, Steven Katz quips that he used to say new filmmakers had a hard time finding practical experience and equipment. Now, he writes, ‘the greatest opportunity for filmmakers since the first screening of a movie in 1895 is right...
by Caroline Hamilton | 15 November, 2018 | Directing, Festivals, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
A new generation of emerging Polish film talent has recently come to the fore. As Michał Oleszczyk, Polish Film Festival’s former artistic director comments: “This is a generation incredibly aware of film language in all its variety. They have absorbed large chunks of...
by Sylvie Dumont | 12 November, 2018 | Filmmaking, Web Content
Have any filmmakers or film lovers in your life? I sure do. Check out these items if you’re stumped on what to get them this holiday season: 1) Overlook Hotel Socks €9.00 Make socks exciting for your Kubrick fan – these are patterned to look like the...
by Elliot Grove | 11 November, 2018 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting
Working alone as a sole proprietor of your own creative business needn’t be lonely. Use these great new resources for writers to engage with fellow creatives and also, see how you can get your words read (and sold) 1.Collaboration When working alone...
by Baptiste Charles | 7 November, 2018 | Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
At this point, you’ve probably had enough of politics already. You can’t open your phone without being bombarded with the news, whatever Trump said, wherever Brexit is at, the dwindling of democracy the world over… As a filmmaker, or more broadly as...
by Elliot Grove | 4 November, 2018 | Film History, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career
My mum used to hate indecision and dithering. whether it was one of us kids playing while on the loo, or my dad trying to decide which crops to plant, my mum would always say ‘shit or get off the pot.’ It’s about commitment. Isn’t it strange...
