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Filmmaker Conference 2008 – A Conversation with Kevin Smith
From Red Bank, NJ to Hollywood (with a pit stop at IFP nearly 15 years ago)… Kevin Smith was DIY before it meant self-distributing as well. While Clerks may have immediately fueled a generation to pick up a camera, many filmmakers are …
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Debra Granik (Writer/Director, Winter’s Bone) discusses the process of figuring out what is financially feasible on a micro-budgeting project.
From the 2010 Script to Screen Conference.
The director/cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes has been one of my best friends for over a decade. Since meeting our freshman year at NYU, we have worked together on no less than a hundred short films, music videos, features, and commercials. I edited the first feature documentary he directed, Brock Enright: …
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Christine Vachon (Producer, I’m Not There, A Home at the End of the World) discusses how the budgeting landscape has changed.
From the 2009 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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Christoph Terhecte (Programmer, Berlin Film Festival) on why filmmakers currently in production should hire a professional photographer to shoot stills.
From the 2009 Independent Filmmaker Conference
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Ted Hope, Producer, This is That, and Christine Vachon, Producer, Killer Films, on how the current economic climate can provide independent filmmakers with better access to acting talent.
From the 2009 Independent Filmmaker Conference.