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About Me

Subscribe at filmmakermagazine.com and get the next issue!!!!!!When we started Filmmaker in 1992, DIY moviemaking meant scoring recans, enrolling in a community college to get student discounts and free equipment, and buying an old flatbed editing table and sticking it in your kitchen. And unless you lucked out and nabbed a distribution deal from one of the new indie companies, marketing that film meant piling the reels in your backseat and driving from festival to festival to get people to see it.Today, as Filmmaker joins MySpace in its new MySpace Film page, the challenges that limited moviemaking to only the most masochistic have disappeared. Digital video has transformed both shooting and editing. Bloggers are spreading the word about films critics are ignoring. Video podcasting is creating a new, accessible and very personal style of filmmaking. And online communities like MySpace are connecting filmmakers who want to inspire each other and film viewers simply looking for something good to watch.As we build out our profile on MySpace, we'll also be doing here what we've done in the magazine: throwing a spotlight on some great movies and getting their directors to share with you the process of their productions. We'll be coming up with weekly picks of stuff you should know about, and we'll be offering a lot of advice on how to make movies. And we'll look forward to meeting filmmakers here, learning about your films, and hopefully helping by spreading the word.Scott Macaulay Editor

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Directors, Screenwriters, Producers, Editors, Cinematographers, Actors, Art Directors, Film Fanatics, Musicians, LMs, ADs, PMs, Costume Designers, Agents, Managers, Execs, Documentarians, Effects people, Stuntpeople, Clapper loaders, Grips, Gaffers, Props, Set Designers, PAs, Choreographers, Casting, Publicity, Animators, Distributors, Game Pros, Wannabes, Make-up Artists, Digital Artists, EFX dudes, Best Boys, Still Photographers, YOU!

Movies:

Hitchcock, Curtiz, Welles, Ford, Wyler, Coppola, Mann, Kubrick, Truffaut, Gilliam, Lean, Lloyd, Scorcese, Spielberg, Stone, Hughes, Boyle, Scott, Scott, Figgis, Bertolucci, Jonze, Tarantino... not necessarily in that order.

Television:

IFC, HBO, Sundance Channel, Bravo, NYCTV, PBS, Discovery, MTV, BBC, Channel Four, Canal+, Showtime, Comedy Central, Logo, Biography

My Blog

KNOCKED UP Q&A

By Nick DawsonAfter 15 years rising up through the Hollywood ranks, comedy's underdog is on top of the world. At the moment, studios are scrambling to work with Judd Apatow (there are no less than sev...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:08:00 PST

BOSS OF IT ALL Q&A

By Nick DawsonLars von Trier, the enfant terrible of world cinema, is always looking for the next thing to surprise or wrongfoot audiences. He made only three features in the first decade of his caree...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:31:00 PST

FAY GRIM Q&A

By Nick DawsonFor a period in the 1990s, Hal Hartley was one of a group of directors, along with Jim Jarmusch and John Sayles, who really defined what American indie filmmaking was all about. Hartley'...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:58:00 PST

GET CONNECTED AND GIVE BACK

On Saturday, April 28 the IFP will be doing a special Producing 101 panel with Waitress producer Michael Roiff, and veteran producers Lydia Dean Pilcher (The Namesake) and Big Beach's Peter Saraf (Lit...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:16:00 PST

New Issue out now!!

The Spring issue of Filmmaker Magazine is out on newsstands, so grab a copy today. There are great interviews with actress Sarah Polley on her directorial debut, Away From Her, and Charles Burnett, ...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:36:00 PST

HOT FUZZ Q&A

By Nick DawsonBrit Edgar Wright's film career began when, straight out of college, he wrote and directed his ultra-low budget debut feature, A Fistful of Fingers (1994), an affectionate comedic homage...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:33:00 PST

YEAR OF THE DOG Q&A

By Nick DawsonChuck and Buck (2000), an incendiary examination of male sexuality, announced the film's writer and star, Mike White, as an unusually daring and original talent. His next foray as a scre...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:29:00 PST

LETHEM'S FREE LOVE

To complete my series of posts about author Jonathan Lethem and his recent work thinking about -- and practicing -- a sort of "open source" approach to creative rights management, here's news of his n...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:00:00 PST

JUROR NOTES (SMILING ON FROWNLAND)

I sat on the Narrative Feature jury at SXSW last week. As you know, we gave the Grand Jury Prize to Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Jamie Babbit's riot grrl riff on Lizzie Borden's early '80s feminist in...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:52:00 PST

"300" Q&A

BATTLE TESTEDZack Snyder brings Frank Miller's ultraviolent graphic novel, 300, to life with amazing special effects and non-stop action.ByJason GuerrasioIt's been two years since Sin City introduced ...
Posted by Filmmaker Magazine on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:51:00 PST