Cast Off Your Costumes!
My desk is festooned with the fruits of two previous Independent Feature Film Markets: a cupful of pens, buttons, a…
Making Films
Viva la Revolucion DV!
The Celebration (1998), 105 min., color Director: Thomas Vinterberg [www.dogme95.dk] Original Format: Mini DV (PAL) Transferred to: 35mm Synopsis: The…
DVD Unbound: Blowing Up the Small Screen
We’re trying to get rid of the film print as a distribution format," explains James Boyd, the man responsible for…
War Stories
When the year was young, the hot topic was Monica, not Kosovo. So at the Sundance Film Festival in January,…
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
Picking a producer is like hiring your own boss. Indie veteran Gill Holland offers some words of advice to novice…
Recasting the Casting Director
Producer Sandra Katz has tried for three years to raise money for Nothing Men, a film by first-time director John…
THE GORE COMMISSION REPORT
Between the impeachment proceedings in Washington and the bombing runs over Iraq, the mid-December release of a final report by…
ST. CLAIR BOURNE: Bourne to be Wild
Over the past 30 years, St. Clair Bourne has amassed a substantial body of work about strong and controversial black…
EVERY DOGMA HAS ITS DAY
It began almost a lark. Tired of the routines of the filmmaking process four Danish directors decided to set themselves…