Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2012 – Critic’s Choice
Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw is viewing the prescreened main slate of the 2012 Rendez-vous With French Cinema showing March…
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Fever Dreams, Middle-Eastern Video Diaries, the Quest for Inspiration, and Memories on Tap
Utah, PARK CITY – For filmmakers, screenwriters, video artists and actors looking for inspiration or funding, or both, the 2012…
Alchemy Springs from the Striking Artistry of Sundance Shorts
Utah, PARK CITY – When it comes to challenging and adventurous short films, the 2012 Sundance Film Festival’s mojo was…
Approaches to End of the World Docs
Two social justice docs at IDFA targeted and systematically attacked the same universal villain: progress. Four Horsemen and Surviving Progress…
Reasons for the Cutting Room Floor
It’s not every day that you get an opportunity to speak with one of Hollywood’s premiere film editors. If you…
IDFA 2011 – In Touch with the “Planet of Snail”
For two years South Korean director Seung-Jun Yi and his assistant director took a two-hour subway ride to the home…
IDFA 2011 – Int’l Perspectives on Digital Distribution and Doc Financing
Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam – A square crowded with coffee shops and clubs (and therefore crawling with tourists) is the proud center…
Of-the-Moment Tips on Funding Indies, Social Media, Genre Films, TV Pitches and More
The hot topic at this fall’s BNA Atlas International Film & TV Finance Summit, the 11th Annual in New York,…
NYFF Critic’s Choice – “The Artist”
The Independent’s senior film critic, Kurt Brokaw, is viewing the entire main slate of the 49th New York Film Festival,…