Yesterday concluded this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. On Wednesday night I caught the 12th installment in a 12 part series entitled How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories. The last in the group is Last Best Chance, a chronicle of Senator Edward Kennedy’s battle for comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. [...]
Entries from June 25th, 2010
A fellowship in memory of Karen Schmeer
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
The Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship is in the works and so far it looks as though it will be something special. Everyone that attended EditFest will already be aware of this fellowship in-progress, but for those that didn’t make it should know about the this opportunity. The Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship has been created in [...]
Tags: A.C.E. · EditFest · EditFest LA · EditFest NY · editing fellowship · errol morris · Fast Cheap and Out of Control · karen schmeer · Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship · Mr. Death · My Father · Powells Books · Sergio · SXSW · the Genius
The “Victory Point” and other essential directing tools
June 10th, 2010 No Comments
Don’t miss Joseph Kahn’s 101 on directing. These are incredibly important tips for aspiring directors, or really any film artist, in his “How to be a Director” recent blog entry. He even offers pictorial examples from the directing Gods of cinema. Mr. Kahn writes “Oliver Stone has on the extended eyepiece and the graceful arch [...]
Tags: Directing · Filmmaking · How to be a Director · Joseph Kahn
New Zealand offers American Cinema treasures
June 7th, 2010 No Comments
A fellow committee member of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund shared this terrific New York Time article with members. The National Film Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of the Library of Congress, is working with the New Zealand Film Archive to bring around 75 early American films back to the States for restoration and preservation. There are some [...]
Tags: Dave Kehr · F.W. Murnau · John Ford · Library of Congress films · Mabel Normand · Mary Fuller · National Film Preservation Foundation · New Zealand Film Archive · NYWIFT · Pearl White · WFPF · Women's Film Preservation Fund