Of all the advice festivals and festival programmers will give, sound is likely the one that will appear in everyone’s list. Sound is the one element almost no film can overcome when it’s noticeable for all the wrong reasons. “Getting good sound is one of the most affordable things that you can do to up your production [Read More]
Sixty seconds or less. There are so many good films capturing my attention in that amount of time this year. As a filmmaker, this is what you are up against. There is no “wait till you get to the good part.” There is no waiting for Act II to kick in. As a filmmaker who [Read More]
Movie Posters and Trailers. Two marketing tools that are nearly as old as cinema itself, with posters going back hundreds of years when you link its lineage to the theater. Of the two, Poster has become a (lost) art form unto herself. Unlike her marketing sibling, Trailer, Poster can’t use clips from a film, or [Read More]
It’s festival submission time around the country. Which means we’re getting closer and closer to the last week of November. Which as many of you know is when Sundance contacts the filmmakers who were accepted, and at that point, the “did we or did we not” waiting comes to an end for thousands of filmmakers. [Read More]
Atlanta’s Festival League is back for another round, again bringing their coalition of film events and niche festivals to various venues around the city this August. Eric Panter and crew, to tie into Atlanta’s revitalized and growing film scene, have also designated the dog days of Summer as Independent Film Month here in the A. [Read More]
After two decades Dirty Dancing is one of those films that young girls–and young men–all over the country rediscover every year. I can remember working at Suncoast Motion Picture Company almost 10 years ago and each week reliably selling a few copies of the film to pre-teens who weren’t even born when the film became [Read More]