What was your inspiration for making Someone To Love? HENRY JAGLOM: I was alone, and I didn’t understand why I was alone. And I looked around at my friends and I realized that I was part of a whole generation of people that were alone and that it wasn’t just a generation but that it [...]
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Dec 282011
I was bummed that I missed the Sundance panel on the New World of Indie Distribution.
Luckily, Scott Kirsner has the audio for download on his CinemaTech site. If you see me walking to work, crossing on the orange hand, headphones burrowed into my ears, you know they are speaking well of the future. Check it out (and I guess I should take a cue from Scott and start to record the panels I partake on…).
The Film Panel Notetaker has a few posts up too on some of the other panels. There is enough going on in the panels to fill a full year of film school curriculium. Still, I was hoping to find some more sparks.
I participated in “The Panic Button” and for all the heavyweights participating, I would’ve thought they’d be more coverage; I guess The Inauguration pulled the press away. Go figure. Maybe the biz is getting tired of hearing the old white guys speak. Reuters was there though. IndieFlix too. I did my best to get the business side (I was the only filmmaker) to recognize that they have to start giving back to the community a bit more if they don’t want to see what’s vibrant vanish, but Reuters only got the start of that argument.
 This Is How I Would Like ItBut alas, I think I have to move to Brazil to get it. I was reading in Variety, how a distributor (Rain) there has gotten all their art cinemas to go digital and use the same software management system, enabling them to get their films via satellite. They then allow the audiences to organize themselves [...] |
 Marc Clebanoff on “The Pink Conspiracy”What was your filmmaking background before you made the film? MARC: THE PINK CONSPIRACY was my second feature film that I produced. I had made another small film, an arthouse drama called UNSPOKEN, that starred Justin Allen & William Sadler. I had attended film school at USC from 1998-2002 as well but my actual hands [...] |
