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Photographer
and writer Julian Richards wanted to make a documentary film and had a
rare opportunity to study and film Tuareg nomads of Mali in
Saharan Africa. He readliy agreed to share some of his experience with
us. With The Nomads is an intimate, unromantic portrait of the Tuareg
herders of the Sahara Desert and asks: Can they survive the 21st
Century?
Below you will…
Last year I built the website for a new documentary due to premiere this year about the issue of land-grabbing in Africa. I'd first been introduced to the production team at an remarkable week as part of the Swim Lab, and been struck silent as the director, Joakim Demmer, explained in plain terms how while we are sending billions in aid to countries like Ethiopia, we are also, inadvertently, he…
Hollywood
cult film director and producer, Frank Q Dobbs, has died at 66. Dobbs,
a Texan who loved writing Westerns, became a legend in the Texas film
industry. He died from cancer.
Dobbs
was from Houston, and though he spent a lot of time in Hollywood, he
often preferred to film in his native Texas. An old colleague described
him as a real friend to the Lone Star State. "Frank…
Part 1 - Three reasons why the Digital Economy Bill will damage British businesses
Part 2 - What can be done? Five steps the UK content industries could take to offset piracy losses
A few weeks ago I chatted with a single dad in his 40s, working in a brewery. He's a biker, Sun-reader and towards the right politically, hating to see his taxes used to fund free school meals or asylum seekers.
Ne…
In recent time there is great headway in photo industry. Modern technology has changed the entire process of photographing. Gone are the days of analog imaging. We are in the era of digital imaging. However, over and above digital imaging, there is nowadays the use of computer in photographing. Some photo software can be run in computer to make room for all types of image manipulation.
Co…
"The mother has challenged the Anjuna polica head on and got the backing of the Goan state minister - a remarkable achievement"
BBC News informs me that the mother of Scarlett Eden Keeling - who was horribly murdered in the neighbouring beach to here on Feb 18th - - has five children and had left her alone while she went off travelling with her boyfriend. The DailyMail.co.uk says in fact she…
Some very important occasions in your life only comes ones and that's all. Such happening like your wedding, high school graduation party, a trip to a far country or an abnormal happening that you happen to witness are things you will never love to forget. One important thing that is of great important to help you record such occasions is a camera.
Now, with a camera in hand, the next thing that…
How Do I Sell My Film Part One - DEMOGRAPHICS
Netribution and film distributors WYSIWYG have joined forces to present on-line WYSIWYG's essential Guide to Film Distribution.
We're both interested in building a strong industry for independent filmmakers. This means creating films that people want to see and buy. It does not mean sacrificing creative integrity, but it means business. To do the b…
Music videos
The End of the World
REM's The End of the World As We Know It sung by George W Bush
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Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle
Swedish Grammy nominated mashup of archive evangelists to Familjen's music.
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Mashups
The Vadar Sessions
Before Star Wars, James Earl Jones starred…
In Britain we like our television scriptwriters to be lovably eccentric -
think the anarchic Paul Abbott, the flamboyant Russell T Davies or the
wonderfully indiscreet Andrew Davies.
In the US, TV dramatists are a more serious breed altogether.
"It felt like it had to be some sort of thriller, like the original The
Day of the Jackal with Edward Fox a…
Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89.
Cissi Elwin, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, comments on Ingmar Bergman’s passing.
"Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera" Woody Allen
"This is a day of sorrow in the world of film. One of the world’s most prominent f…
French-based video sharing site Dailymotion is continuing its short-run free streams of independent British films with the Online World Premiere of the new feature One Day Removals, directed by Scottish filmmaker Mark Stirton. The 88-minute film will be available online from 12pm GMT on Friday 30th January, until midnight on Monday 2nd February.
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It has often been said that men age and women mature. However women, like wine, tend to mature in one of two ways. They either ripen into something full-flavoured, with lots of body and a myriad of intriguing flavours or they turn onto an unpleasant, acidic vinegar.
It's further said that there are no good parts in Hollywood for the older woman. Well, one person would take issue with that. She's…
Producers are different things to different people, making this
question difficult to answer. There are no detailed job
descriptions and no two producers handle their jobs in exactly the
same way. Is it any wonder that both audiences, and many
'insiders', are bewildered by the proliferation of producer
credits in films?
The producer credit has often…
A film Spike Jonze made after spendning a day with presidential
candidate Al Gore in 2000 has just been released online.. given that
Gore lost the election to only 500 votes, one wonders what impact this
could have had on the election - and in turn the world today - had it
been shown.
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Jon H from Finland at JonHs.net
has pulled together a remarkable list of 9-11 related documentaries
online. All are free to watch and most are created by unfunded groups
and individuals. There's a few extreme conspiracy theories but it's is
still an impresive collective example of citzen filmmaking.
So much seems to have happened in the five years since
Tom ran up the stairs…
“Obscurity is a far greater threat to artists and authors than piracy” Tim O'Reilly
Copyright law was originally created to settle a dispute between English and Scottish publishers in the early 18th Century and has grown today into a fundamental aspect of the creative 'business'. Some would argue that the development of copyright law has been driven by the needs of distributors to protect invest…
Dan - man with a Cannes Van Plan, has posted the first Rogue Runner Cannes update to his website. The show - shot over 12 hours and edited in 8 - runs on alternate days on his site and sponsor LoveFilm. Latest episode now online.
From LazyFilm:
There are only two things that can make any motion graphic artist
flinch and that's rotoscoping and chroma keying. Why? Mainly because
both processes are time consuming and arm numbing. However despite all
these, rotoscoping and chroma keying still remains to be very important
in the industry we move in. Which is why, lately, software companies
are launching new…
The Defence Medical Services Department (DMSD), part of the Ministry of Defence has appointed iceni Productions to produce a unique Defence Nursing web video project. The year long project will see the Midlands based video production company iceni, filming Defence Nurses across the UK giving a fresh perspective on the world of Nursing within the Military.
The nursing video, which will be ava…
2005
was a turning point in the entertainment industries, the year that
Hollywood's tried and tested methods of reaching the masses finally had
tio give way - to iPods, TiVos and Xbox 360s. What lessons will 2006
bring? The lesson of changing markets, that's for sure. The best
admission of that came from NBC Universal TV chairman Jeff Zucker; "The
overall strategy is to make…
Before editing software was developed and even before there were any edit suite controllers, video tape was edited by manually slicing it by people using very sharp razor blades.
This was a process known as Kamikaze editing. Early editors also used a microscope, a cutting block, magnetic developing fluid and degauzed (demagnetised) razor blades. For a clean edit, the tape had to…
Anyone
trying to gain employment in the Britain's film industry knows how hard
it can be getting a foot in the door. Three years at film school and
all the enthusiasm and determination in the world still can't guarantee
you a job in an industry that measures success in terms of who you have
worked with and what films you have worked on. Here's a story that
shows how one aspiri…
The new Tax Relief system for British films offers producers up to 20% of their budget in cash. The system replaces Section 42 and 48 which offered a tax break of up to 40% and also introduces a host of quite complex new clauses to limit and define which films are eligible for relief. Love it or hate it, it is a piece of legislation which will effect not just which films get made in the UK in th…