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Filmmaker's look at upcoming DVD releases.
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Scott Macaulay
Contributing Editor Brandon Harris has posted on his blog a new preview of Filmmaker and MoMA's annual "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" program, which unspools at the museum this week. Screening will be the five films that will be competing for the Gotham Award we sponsor on December 1. (For schedule and film descriptions, visit MoMA's site.) Brandon writes that this year's program [continue]
Scott Macaulay
It didn't used to be all reality shows. In 1990 MTV aired Buzz, an experimental video art collage show by director Mark Pellington. Genesis P-Orridge, William Burroughs, RU Sirius, David Byrne, and other transgressive thinkers (oh yes, and Jon Bon Jovi) were all featured in the debut show, which was openly inspired by Bruce Conner and other experimental filmmakers. Boing Boing noticed that the [continue]
Jason Guerrasio
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the 15 films that have made the shortlist for Best Documentary. Two of the most prised docs of the year made the list: Louie Psihoyos's The Cove and Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., as well as a few lesser known titles like Anders Ostergaard's Burma VJ and Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor. But surprisingly excluded were Michael [continue]

Jason Guerrasio
The Sundance Institute announced today the 13 artists selected for the New Frontier section at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. These works will be shown at New Frontier on Main, open to the public Thursday, January 21 through Saturday, January 30, 2010. (The full list of artists are below.) One of the artists chosen this year is actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (pictured), who we discovered last [continue]
Howard Feinstein
The mountain came to Mohamed. I picked up a bug that lingered and made me miserable. But I had accepted the honor of being a juror for the Kieslowski Prize at the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival, which began last week and runs through November 22. Only six foreign-language films were competing for our votes, and, either at other festivals or through the kindness of European sales agents, I had [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight for the first in our series, "A New World: A User's Guide for Filmmakers and Audiences" at the IFC Center. The speaker was Jon Reiss, who gave listeners an accelerated yet detailed overview of his thoughts on DIY distribution and what a theatrical release means today. (Some of these thoughts can be found in this article in Filmmaker.) There was a lot to [continue]
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Damon Smith
Forty-plus years into a still-vital, ever-proliferating filmmaking career, Werner Herzog has aged gracefully into the role of the sage adventurer, still fearlessly exploring the terrain between documentary and fiction as well as the vanishing point between charismatic eccentricity and full-blown [continue]

Brandon Harris
If one had only a single adjective with which to describe the body of work that directing team David Siegel and Scott McGehee have crafted over the past decade and a half, cerebral immediately jumps to mind. Since their debut film Suture (1993), an austere, black and white thriller starring [continue]
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I'm at the Edinburgh Film Festival, jetlagged bad, and I'm asked for emerging filmmaker advice by some kid. He says, in particular, he wants to know about making art films and being a writer/director. Oh boy. I try to find something to say, but it's disingenuous and the kid knows it. I go back to [continue]

When I attended the Future of Music Conference this year I heard a lot of talk about all of the opportunities that exist today for indie musicians to create and distribute their products via digital media on the web. Later, at the Flyway Film Festival I heard former Tribeca CEO Brian Newman speak [continue]
moreFILMMAKER VIDEOS 

Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple's Final Cut Studio to
create the short Isn't She?..., an ode to John Hughes that
follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to
claim unemployment insurance.
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FESTIVAL COVERAGE 

Whither primary sources? Here’s what I have in front of me, in case you’re interested: on the desktop sits the laptop, the phone, the book, the headphones. On the laptop’s desktop, the news, the blog, the review, the video, the work. On the phone, the music, the number, the same review as [continue]
PLUS: Festival Ambassador - The latest news from the film festival circuit 
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FALL 2009
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In Lars von Trier’s latest film, Antichrist, the Danish auteur abandons the video
aesthetic of his recent films to explore the horrors to be found in marital relations. By Scott Macaulay

Ira Sachs sits down with writer-director Oren Moverman to discuss his debut feature, The Messenger,
a powerful look at two soldiers who bring the pain of war to your doorstep.

With Ti West’s The House of the Devil hitting theaters, Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix has become one of
the most active independent production companies around. By Lauren Wissot
moreLINE ITEMS
Tips on how to be a successful filmmaker during the recession. By Esther B.
Robinson
moreCOLUMNS

Why VOD is turning into a profitable avenue for indie filmmakers. By Anthony Kaufman

Lance Weiler travels to the land of start-ups.
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Winterbottom’s The Killer
Inside Me, Trailerpark,
Final Cut Studio,
Independent Film Week,
Kubrick’s Napoleon book.
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