What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring?

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vlogging by a Dutch filmmaker

vlogging by a Dutch filmmaker 08/08/2004 07:07 AM
Tropisms Videolog .. Video log (vlog) .. Luuk's vlog .. Tropisms .. Tropisms .. Tropism

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New Guestbl0gger -- filmmaker
Christopher Coppola

New Guestbl0gger -- filmmaker
Christopher Coppola 06/15/2004 10:46 PM
A big thanks to our outgoing guestblogger, Russ Kick of The Memory Hole, who filled the right-hand column with no shortage of interesting things during his visit. Mr. Kick is now off to write his next book, 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Vol. 2 due for release in November.

Our next guestbar resident, Christopher Coppola, has completed eight feature motion pictures. The latest of these is Creature of the Sunny Side-Up Trailer Park (a.k.a. Bloodhead), which had its world premiere during the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars screen legends Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones, and television icons Lynda Carter and Bernie Kopell. His other film credits include the Trimark Pictures release Deadfall (1993) starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Biehn, and James Coburn; Gunfighter (1998) starring Martin Sheen, Robert Carradine, and Clu Gulager; Palmer's Pick-Up: An American Roadshow Odyssey (1999) starring Robert Carradine and Rosanna Arquette; Dracula's Widow (1989) which he produced for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group; G-Men From Hell (2000) starring William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, and Gary Busey; Bel-Air (2000) starring Charles Fleischer and Barbara Bain; and Clockmaker (1998), a children's fantasy film shot on location in Romania for Kuschner-Locke.

Christopher is co-founder and spokesperson for Ars Nova XXI, the mother company of PlasterCITY Productions (an independent feature and television production company that concentrates on HD digital format) and PlasterCITY Digital Post (a post-production facility that specializes in editing and onlining for feature films, television, shorts, commercials, and music videos.)

Welcome, Christopher!

Texas Independent Filmmaker Signs with
First Look Rentals

Texas Independent Filmmaker Signs with
First Look Rentals 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
Independent filmmaker Dean J. Augustin has signed a distribution agreement with First Look Rentals of Los Angeles, CA. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Kevin Smith Launches New Filmmaker Web
Site

Kevin Smith Launches New Filmmaker Web
Site 08/22/2004 11:44 AM

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How often have you watched a movie and though, “Hey I could do that!” or “A trained monkey could do a better movie than this”. Well, now it is time to put your money where your mouth is, so to speak. Director Kevin Smith has launched a new Web site for up and coming movie makers to post their stuff….

Christopher Coppola, filmmaker and
digivangelist, has a bl0g.

Christopher Coppola, filmmaker and
digivangelist, has a bl0g. 01/23/2004 12:11 AM
Director and digital filmmaking evangelist Christopher Coppola (IMDB link, production company link) launched a photo/audio/mobile/text blog a few months ago. Lately, it's really falling into a sweet stride. At left, a photo posted today to mark the passing of a family member. Mr. Coppola and the legion of digital filmmaking wizards he houses in Hollywood are up to many interesting things. I expect great stuff to come to light on and off the blog from him this year.

Communist hymn is in copyright -
filmmaker fined

Communist hymn is in copyright -
filmmaker fined 04/09/2005 05:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Internationale is the hymn of the Fourth International Communist Party. My parents, being good reds, used to sing it every New Year's Eve at the stroke of midnight, with all the comrades at the socialist New Year's gathered round the record player to sing along with the soundtrack from Reds. It is quite a stirring anthem, and has been translated into dozens of languages, and is sung the world 'round.

Weirdly, this 19th century song is still in copyright in France, and a French filmmaker has just been fined about $1300 for letting a character in one of his films whistle the tune (you can hear a very modern synth-pop take on the tune courtesy of Maxx Klaxon here).

The irony factor here is much deeper than, say, the irony surrounded JibJab's appropriation of Woody Guthrie's This Land. Guthrie was a socialist, sure, but the Internationale is a call to arms to abolish private property, eliminate international borders, and throw off your chains and rise up to smash the state. Hard to imagine that the long-dead creator of that song is having his wishes honored by French collecting societies shaking down people who make use of it for cash.

The 19th-century revolutionary hymn was written by Eugene Pottier in 1871 and set to music by another Frenchman, Pierre Degeyter, in 1888...

Under French law, "The Internationale" won't fall into the public domain until 2014 — 70 years of post-mortem protection plus extra time to cover the world war. Degeyter died in 1932....

[The film] hardly paid its own way, opening briefly in a single Paris theater and selling just 203 tickets, Le Monde reported.

Link (Thanks, Maximus!)

Filmmaker Moore Offers Berg Interview to
Family

Filmmaker Moore Offers Berg Interview to
Family 05/28/2004 06:20 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 28 2004 11:14PM GMT

"Rance" unmasked as
cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter Keith
Thomson?

"Rance" unmasked as
cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter Keith
Thomson? 06/01/2004 04:56 PM
David Emery, of About.com's Urban Legends and Folklore department, tells BoingBoing, "Wanted to let you know that Alex Boese of the Museum of Hoaxes may well have solved the Rance mystery with some good, old-fashioned Net detective work, or at any rate is damn close to solving it."

Here's a snip from the Museum of Hoaxes post, which -- true or not -- evidences some very thorough sleuthing indeed:

I think Rance is a cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter named Keith Thomson. Here's my reasoning. What immediately struck me about Rance's weblog was that it attracted a very high number of comments from very early on. Within two hours after Rance posted his first entry on December 29, 2003, four people had left comments on his site. Most weblogs, by contrast, struggle to get anyone to read them, let alone leave comments. So how was he attracting so many visitors to his site straight off the bat? What I discovered was that immediately after Rance posted his first entry on Dec. 29 at 4:49 EST, someone going by the screen name 'InvaderFromPluto' began posting messages about his weblog on various fan discussion groups. For instance, at 5:52, about one hour after Rance had posted his first entry, a message from InvaderFromPluto appears on Yahoo's thematthewperryplace message board. It reads:

i read slate reported a famous tv actor keeping a weblog under pseudonym "rance" at http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/ it's hard to know if it is him, but it might be as it is funny and seems witty in his sort of way

Obviously Slate hadn't written anything about Rance's weblog. Rance's weblog, at that time, was only an hour old. So how did InvaderFromPluto know about Rance's weblog so quickly, and why was he so interested in promoting it? Perhaps InvaderFromPluto was Rance himself. Makes sense to me.

Link, and previous BoingBoing posts: 1, 2

That other documentary

That other documentary 06/04/2004 12:12 PM
The Corporation (U.S. premiere tonight) is "a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism's most important institution," or so says The Economist. An important but flawed documentary? Or something bigger ? (imdb page | rotten tomato review collection) (wee more inside)

Boing Boing: Communist hymn is in
copyright - filmmaker fined

Boing Boing: Communist hymn is in
copyright - filmmaker fined 04/11/2005 03:50 AM
French filmmaker has just been fined for letting a character in one of his films whistle the tune .. Communist hymn is in copyright - filmmaker fined .. BoingBoing

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a distancing documentary

a distancing documentary 06/26/2004 05:42 PM
i am suffering from polarization fatigue

Logging the documentary

Logging the documentary 02/12/2004 12:51 PM

I'm happy to report that loggnig the documentary happens pretty much at live speed. I just run the tape and log as it goes. So 20 hours of tape means 20 hours of logging. Not too bad.

I created a table in Word. The first column has the timecode (0:25:41), the second the scene ("plane"), the third details ("old man looking"), the fourth comments ("nice image - bad sound"). I only use the comments for 1 out of every 5 rows, more or less. A 1 hour tape turns into about 2 pages in Word. I just run the video on the TV and type in my Word doc as it goes.

Editing the documentary

Editing the documentary 02/10/2004 08:08 PM

I've returned from filming in Colombia and now I have 22 tapes (about 16 hours) of video to edit.

The first step is to get an idea of what you have. I fast forwarded through most of the tapes, and used my digital camera to make screenshots of the TV. I then printed out the screenshots (using Windows XP's printing wizard makes it very easy) per scene. I laid out all the scenes to have an easy way of discussing them and getting an overview. Think of it as a high-level sitemap.

Next I will have to watch all 16 hours and make a detailed log: at this timestamp, a man with donkey passes. This timestamp, the interviewee talks about X. I expect this to take 2 weeks, I'll report back. And yes, it's like a content inventory. Yey.

Recursive documentary

Recursive documentary 05/23/2004 06:25 AM
"The Making Of: The Documentary With This Tagline" is a recursive documentary -- a documentary about the making of itself. The trailer is a scream. Link (Thanks, Nick!)

The Ramones documentary you may never
get to see

The Ramones documentary you may never
get to see 04/26/2004 11:51 AM
The Ramones documentary, End of the Century, has won critical acclaim at every festival and screening it played at. But the two nearly bankrupt filmmakers who made it are having a hard time getting sign off from the surviving Ramones.

Even when the movie was shown at Slamdance, the filmmakers had not obtained permission to use archival concert footage and music from the Ramones and other bands. They had also never gotten the Ramones to sign releases for their interviews, which took more than three years to conduct. ... The film's release has been further complicated by the filmmakers' financial situation. By the time the film was presented at Slamdance, Mr. Gramaglia and his brother, John, a producer, had amassed a debt of about $65,000 in production expenses. They owed Chinagraph, an editing house, another $150,000 and they estimated they would have to spend several hundred thousand dollars more to secure the rights to music and concert footage.

Link (Thanks, Scott!)

BBC documentary on atheism

BBC documentary on atheism 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief "In this first ever television history of disbelief,...

"How To Make A Guerrilla Documentary"

"How To Make A Guerrilla Documentary" 07/12/2004 04:00 AM

Disagree with Moore? Do Your Own
Documentary

Disagree with Moore? Do Your Own
Documentary 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Roger Ebert: '9/11': Just the facts?. The wise French director Godard once said, "The way to criticize a film is to make another film." That there is not a pro-Bush documentary available right now I am powerless to explain. Surely, however, the Republican National Convention will open with such a documentary, which will position Bush comfortably between Ronald Reagan and God. The Democratic convention will have a wondrous film about John Kerry. Anyone who thinks one of these documentaries is "presenting facts objectively without editorializing" should look at the other one.

rock and roll documentary!

rock and roll documentary! 06/28/2004 11:22 PM
support kathryn's wrens documentary. it'll be better than any major label video would be

Slashback: Documentary, Directory, FUD

Slashback: Documentary, Directory, FUD 04/22/2004 08:02 PM

Moore documentary gets U.S. distributor

Moore documentary gets U.S. distributor 06/02/2004 07:19 AM

Moore Documentary Gets U.S. Distributor
(AP)

Moore Documentary Gets U.S. Distributor
(AP) 06/01/2004 08:08 PM
AP - Michael Moore's award-winning documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.

Bob Moog documentary looks great

Bob Moog documentary looks great 04/29/2004 07:13 PM
The video clips from the new Bob Moog (inventor of the Moog synthesizer) documentary (titled "moog") are very exciting. Can't wait to see it. He says inventing things is a combination of "discovering and witnessing." (As an aside, isn't "Moog" a great name. It has that mod 60s sound that's perfect for a synthesizer. I don't think it would have been as popular had his last name been anything else.) Link

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons 06/05/2005 11:29 PM
Great defense of CC

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Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press

Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press 08/07/2004 02:09 PM
Bleisatz - giftig, aber schön .. This Quicktime micro-documentary

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5+ hour documentary series CC'd

5+ hour documentary series CC'd 06/05/2005 11:40 PM

Jason Scott has created a five plus hour documentary series on Bulletin Board Systems. Prior to the commercial Internet local BBSes were "the net" for anyone without an Internet connection, typically only provided by major universities and research institutions. In short, BBSes are where many long time net denizens cut their electronic media teeth (including me in the mid to late 1980s) and BBS culture was an important input into today's commercial Internet culture (BBS technology however has almost entirely been superseded).

I heard awhile ago that this documentary was in production and I've been eagerly awaiting its release. I'm now thrilled to learn that 1) it has been released, 2) under a Creative Commons license, 3) under a liberal Creative Commons license (Attribution-Shar eAlike 2.0), and 4) the creator has posted a great essay on how to make a great product and why he chose to CC license his great product.

Read Jasons's essay and check out the DVD set. Proceed to enjoy, rip, share, remix and share again (and alike).

Weinstein brothers buy Moore documentary

Weinstein brothers buy Moore documentary 05/28/2004 06:32 PM

Documentary Confirms Hogzilla's
Existence (AP)

Documentary Confirms Hogzilla's
Existence (AP) 03/22/2005 04:51 PM
AP - A team of National Geographic experts has confirmed south Georgia's monster hog, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real — and really, really big.

The September 11, 2001, Documentary
Project

The September 11, 2001, Documentary
Project 02/05/2005 09:29 PM
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
http://mem ory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/

The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives. The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation’s folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record, and document America’s reaction. A sampling of the material collected through this effort was used to create the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. This collection captures the voices of a diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, and political cross-section of America during trying times and serves as a historical and cultural resource for future generations. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Disney 'blocks' Moore documentary

Disney 'blocks' Moore documentary 05/05/2004 06:54 AM
Director Michael Moore says his new film, which attacks President Bush, has been blocked by the Disney studio.

Miramax chiefs to buy Moore documentary

Miramax chiefs to buy Moore documentary 05/13/2004 11:11 AM

Roger Wood documentary footage

Roger Wood documentary footage 09/08/2004 08:06 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Zed show has done a segment on my pal Roger Wood, the mad assemblage clockmaker.

Roger Wood creates with time in mind. Yet even though the clock can be a consistent element of his work, it's often secondary to its creation. Whether it's a curious timepiece or a unique assemblage, Wood thrives on working with an immeasurable array of findings from the tarnished and forgotten to the odd or intriquing. He is a devoted collector of usual and unusual objects with one thing in common, a history.

The source of his inspiration lies in the hundreds of curiously labelled drawers and boxes brimming with artifacts of all description that line the shelves of his Toronto studio. Wood orchestrates an arrangement from his myriad of treasures until the precise moment that it feels right. Then he quickly glues them all down so they can't escape.

Playful, wondrous timepieces emerge that take flight on cherubic wings, float and sway on fine wires, or appear frozen mid-explosion with flying springs and cogs that bounce at the touch.

Link

Box Office Mojo > Genres >
Documentary

Box Office Mojo > Genres >
Documentary 06/29/2004 07:33 AM
highest-grossing documentary .. Top 100 Documentaries .. All-time documentary .. actual numbers

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Documentary pulled over race fear

Documentary pulled over race fear 05/20/2004 11:41 AM
Channel 4 pulls a documentary about Bradford social workers after police warn it could increase racial tension.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Sets Documentary
Record (AP)

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Sets Documentary
Record (AP) 06/27/2004 02:48 PM
AP - Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" took in a whopping $21.8 million in its first three days, becoming the first documentary ever to debut as Hollywood's top weekend film.

Chuck Klosterman waxes best on the new
Metallica documentary

Chuck Klosterman waxes best on the new
Metallica documentary 06/22/2004 04:37 AM
Metallica and their therapist, in a new documentary .. I cannot WAIT to see this .. this odd NYT story

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Undergroundfilm.org - Documentary mainly
focusing on "the Cult Of The Dead Cow."

Undergroundfilm.org - Documentary mainly
focusing on "the Cult Of The Dead Cow." 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1001601 Synopsis The subjects of this documentary are either dangerous terrorists, computer security activists, or simply out-of-control adolescents. Your opinion may vary, depending on your stock holdings, after you watch for yourself as the members of The Cult of the Dead Cow demonstrate the ease with which their software program, "Back Orifice 2000" can seize control of a Windows computer connected to the internet.

Iraq War Documentary to Be Shown at
House Parties

Iraq War Documentary to Be Shown at
House Parties 12/05/2003 04:29 AM
Bringing Down the House .. Are you going

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Kuwait bans anti-Bush documentary

Kuwait bans anti-Bush documentary 08/02/2004 04:37 AM
Kuwaiti officials ban Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, calling it insulting to Saudi Arabia and US.
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