Category: Film making
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Amazing Filmmaking Gadgets Being Made on Kickstarter
These are just awesome. If you’re a filmmaker on a budget but want to achieve some slick camera angles, check out these kickstarter projects, which are looking for funds to complete their projects, and will reward donors with the equipment after the projects are complete. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461078637/the-aviator-travel-jib?ref=category – A steal. I had no idea how valuable…
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Notes from The Funds Book – Hong Kong vs. South Korean Government Funding
Here are some interesting bits taken from The Funds Book from the Cannes Film Market. It outlines all the major government-provided film funds, budgets, and basic criteria. I compared Hong Kong and South Korea, not based on market share (since that would be an unfair comparison), but based on their criteria. Check out Hong Kong…
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Red Dwarf Feature Shot Down for Being “Too Marketable”
This is old news, but the subject is relevant since we just returned from Cannes and got a wake-up call on how European film financing works. Turns out the Red Dwarf creators once got that same wake-up call: Series co-creator and the film’s scriptwriter/producer Doug Naylor attempted to shed some light on his plight in…
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Navigating the Action Film Industry of the Future
In my last post I used Cannes and AFM to take a snapshot of the action industry and predict what the climate will be like in a couple years. Impossible? Maybe, but using some basic principles I think we can be pretty accurate, within fifty percent. So how does it relate to us as indie…
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Final Thoughts from An Action Filmmaker In Cannes – European Film Financing
The journey home from Cannes was long, but it gave me some time to evaluate the whole trip. The most shocking realization was how little we knew about the European film industry simply because we live in the USA. Even attending the American Film Market didn’t prepare us for what Cannes was all about. The…
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An Action Filmmaker in Italy – Part of the Cannes 2012 Trip
Tuesday, May 22 – Our time in Italy was short but sweet, punctuated with our sound designer Matteo and a stunt team called D-Unit. We went into the fashion capital of Milano, where we went to the only coffee place that resembled Starbucks called Arnold Coffee. Italy is the only European country that doesn’t have…
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An Action Filmmaker in … Seborga?
Sunday May 20. An early start today was necessary to catch the 7:45 am train to bordighera, which would lead us to our final destination of Seborga, the independent principality that was celebrating its second anniversary of the election of their prince. The euro rail was smooth, the tray tables long, and we hopped off…
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An Action Filmmaker in Cannes – Day 4
Day 4 – Saturday May 19 Today was much more relaxed. I slept in until 7:10am for a change and spent the first two hours writing. Rebecca and I ate some of the fine, bagged 2€ madelines from the supermarket and set off to catch all the booths we may have missed. What we found…