High-Tech Homebrew
The past few years have seen significant advances in the tools for creating visual effects with desktop computers. Yet these…
Making Films
The Strange and Wonderful World of “American Splendor”
From American Splendor’s first shots, you know you are watching something unusual: It’s Halloween, 1950, and the neighborhood runts are…
Site Seeing
While cleaning out my attic in 1998 I had an idea for a short film. I found a box of…
Living the Indie Life
The notion of the starving artist is a romantic one. Sepia-toned images float through our collective minds of creative geniuses…
Field Report
Independent producers in Los Angeles are finding more ways of getting their work produced, critiqued, and distributed. Still, there is…
Puerto Rico
I did not come here to kill. I came here to die. – Lolita Lebrón On March 1, 1954, Lolita…
Beth Harrington
It’s been said that every filmmaker secretly wants to be a rock star, and vice versa. Beth Harrington has been…
The Women Behind the Camera
This was going to be the last article ever on woman cinematographers. It shouldn’t be news in 2003 that women…
Should I script my documentary?
Dear Doc Doctor: I’m shooting abroad and want to make sure I don’t miss anything since I can’t go back…