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Blogging IFP: Let's Talk About It
As the Indepdendent Film Week winds down, festival-goers are eager to discuss filmmaking techniques at the conferences.
September 18th, 2008 | Kayla Soyer-Stein
Documentary filmmakers discuss the relationship with their subjects during one of the festival's most popular segments: the Independent Filmmaker Conference. SILVERDOCS director of programming, Sky Sitney, and other panelists try to define the ethical role of documentarians.
A crowd of filmmakers and other members of the film industry gathered outside the Haft Auditorium at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) at various times today, as they did every day this week, waiting to get into the Independent Filmmaker Conferences, in which filmmakers, producers, distributors, agents, and buyers discussed a variety of issues pertaining to independent filmmaking.
Blogging IFP: Short Shorts
A snapshot into the upcoming films from Canada.
September 17th, 2008 | Kayla Soyer-Stein
Blogging from Independent Film Week, Writer Kayla Soyer-Stein gets a sneak peak of upcoming Canadian films with excerpts and trailers (see The Baby Formula for example). Plus, she heads over to the Short Film Showcases to view documentaries of upcoming filmmakers from CUNY.
From 9:30 to 10:30 this morning, bits of new works from talent supported by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund were presented at Chelsea Cinemas to members of the industry.
Blogging IFP: Death Becomes It
The first in a series of blog entries about the 30th anniversary of Independent Film Week (formerly the IFP Market) in New York City.
September 16th, 2008 | Kayla Soyer-Stein
Blogger Kayla Soyer-Stein takes a peek at Independent Film Week in New York City, with a first look at the slightly morbid side of IFP, along with a glimpse into exactly what it takes to make a documentary from start to finish.
Short narrative films by emerging filmmakers from the City University of New York schools were screened from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. today at Chelsea Cinemas, as part of the NextGenNYC Short Film Showcases, a new program initiated by IFP and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. Most of the filmmakers were in the audience, but the theater was nearly empty.
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