by Marco Giuliani | 16 July, 2019 | Filmmaking, Gaming
Why are there no good video game movies? This is one of those questions that gamers have stopped asking, and for good reason. Every time a video game adaption is announced with big fanfare, usually during a big conference such as E3, people automatically assume it’s...
by Elliot Grove | 14 July, 2019 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
All I hear is how terrible the challenges facing independent filmmakers are. Coming back from the Cannes Film Festival this spring I ran into two veteran British film producers, who between them had produced nigh on 60 features. They’d been nominated for or won...
by George Moore Chadwick | 13 July, 2019 | Film History, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
Before you write your next short, check out this list of great short films that were made in the 90s. This era is interesting right now because some of the best filmmakers today got their start making shorts in the 90s. A couple of these shorts even became features in...
by Daniel Korth | 12 July, 2019 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
1. Visual storytelling Film is primarily a visual medium. Those from the silent era (D.W. Griffith’s movies from the 1910’s, Buster Keaton’s movies from the 1920’s etc.) are still referred to as ‘films’, which shows that the camera, more than the...
by George Moore Chadwick | 11 July, 2019 | Festivals, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Cannes had some excellent films both in and out of the main competition this year, and while films like The Dead Don’t Die have already had a wide release, many films aren’t being released (or at least released worldwide) for many months. Here are the ones to keep an...
by Katy Wagner | 10 July, 2019 | Film History, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Sci-Fi films have depicted unimaginable scientific phenomenons since the beginning of time. The category combines the real world with the supernatural to question thoughts of the unknown in science. Over the past century, technology has improved special effects and...
