If you haven’t heard, collective: unconscious, a new web series providing a look into the dreams of the filmmakers creating it, is set to premiere in the summer of 2015. If the name of collective: unconscious’ creator, Dan Schoenbrun, sounds familiar, there’s a reason for that. Dan previously served as Associate Director of …
I’ve been a fan of The Young Turks, an online news show that currently has well over 1.5 billion views on Youtube, for approximately five years now. Created and co-hosted by Cenk Uygur, an eccentric, hard-hitting and humorous figure who gives off the feeling of both a leader and an …
Documentary filmmaker Robert Greene’s latest work, Actress, opens this Friday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a week-long run. A delicate character study that is both a concentrated observation of former television star Brandy Burre (The Wire) and of the role of performance in documentary storytelling, Actress is a …
Dive in as Dolby Laboratories’ Graef Allen and theatrical booker Michael Tuckman take us on a crash course in the workings of digital cinema mastering and distribution. This presentation is NOT for the faint of heart but filmmakers with the gusto to do their research about mastering and distribution options …
In the age of everything digital, why do filmmakers, with all size budgets, still choose to shoot film for their productions? Is it a tribute to a technology from the past or the recognition that only film achieves the organic, emotional look necessary to propel their stories? From Star Trek …
Dave Grohl’s debut film, “Sound City”, was one of the best received docs at this year’s Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals. It’s also one of the better self-distribution case studies of the year—the film has topped the iTunes charts since debuting. How did they do it? And if they …
For New York and LA-based productions, many filmmakers are tapping into their own network of support, relying on their own local community. But what if you’re working in Biloxi, Raleigh-Durham, or Minneapolis? How do you create a new local network? And if you stay close to home, believe it or …
Production, film sales, and distribution. All are equally important to the film industry in their own ways. It may seem impossible that one can do all three of these things, but that is exactly what Glen Basner has done with FilmNation Entertainment – a global, full-service film company. With such …