The moment Walter Mirisch appears in the entrance way, the entire White Hall screening room — filled to the brim with students, faculty and local residents alike — erupts into a massive round of applause.
As the noise subsides and people begin settling into their seats, Mirisch begins his introduction to the night’s film: “In the [...]
By Wesley G. Hughes Staff Writer
A Redlands team from Work and Play Productions took home about everything but the popcorn concession with their film “Snakebit” in this year’s Inland Empire Division of the 48 Hour Film Project.
Their flashy six-and-a-half minute Western topped 36 entries including the VeganCannibals, last year’s winners, who went on to take [...]
Video-game playing has become a mainstream activity, but gamer culture isn’t quite opening up at the same pace.
At the center of that culture is machinima, a fast-growing filmmaking method that’s more than a decade old but still unknown to most non-gamers. A blend of the words “machine” and “animation,” it describes animated work done by [...]
Paris Connections
Amber Entertainment
When Paris Connections, a new movie based on a Jackie Collins novel, premieres at a cinema in London’s Leicester Square on Sept. 2, the event will likely follow a time-honored script, with the film’s stars — as well as Collins herself — emerging from limos onto the red carpet as scores of cameras [...]
YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project is an ambitious filmmaking exercise in which thousands of people around the world document their lives, and some film industry veterans cut, chop, and paste all that footage into a coherent documentary. It’s a monumental challenge, but the names attached–most importantly Ridley Scott, serving as executive producer, and Kevin [...]
A scene from “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.” [Image courtesy of IFC Films]
The filmmaking team behind “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work”—Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg and the eponymous comedienne herself—will attend the opening night showing of the film at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Nov. 3 in Sheffield, England. The 17th edition of Doc/Fest, which runs [...]
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29 August 2010The purpose of this paper is to examine reaction to the film Samson and Delilah and where this reaction has positioned the film in Australian filmmaking history.
Warwick Thornton’s 2009 film Samson and Delilah won the hearts of Australians as well as a bag of awards — and rightly so. It [...]
Lake Elsinore resident and filmmaker Chris Warren likens his annual involvement in a local timed-filmmaking competition to getting assigned a 10-page research paper by your professor, then being told it’s due in two days.
“You have to do everything, you haven’t even started, and you have to do it in two days,” said Warren, 25.
Unlike being [...]
Redefining professional digital recording
Simon Wong
CANON recently unveiled two new professional video cameras – the XF 305 and XF 300 (far right) – which are engineered for multiple production applications including broadcast news, documentary and independent filmmaking.
Combining video, audio and metadata into a single file, both camcorders use MXF (material exchange format), a widely-supported open source [...]
I like two types of films, action and westerns, both with guns, balls and beautiful women. Bullets and blood are exactly how Sly closed out his infamous Rambo franchise and as a director he has learned a vital ingredient in filmmaking-to surround oneself with the finest in the trade that can compliment the grittiness and [...]
