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• Trailer Watch: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality

  
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  Earlier today Scott wrote about Jodorowsky’s Dune, the Cannes doc about the legendary mystical auteur’s famous failed attempt to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel for the big screen, so now is a perfect time to post the trailer for the director’s new film, which is also having its world premiere on the French ...
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• Mash Note Dept. : Jacques Tati

  
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              The universe holds a special place in its starry heart for comedians. And at the core of its deepest heart, you will find Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati was a filmmaker and a comedic actor— at least that’s how his biography is phrased. His real vocation was pointing a stylized lens ...
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• Cannes. IWC Filmmaker Award ad Alan Trustman, la serata di gala

  
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  In occasione del Festival Internazionale del Film di Cannes, la manifattura orologiera svizzera IWC Schaffhausen ha organizzato anche quest’anno una serata glamour. Durante la cena [...]
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• Filmmaker Kiran Rao Launches Her Own Production Banner

  
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  Well-known Filmmaker Kiran Rao , who started her Bollywood career over a decade ago, is a strong supporter of good cinema. In order to pursue her passion, she has launched her own production banner and will be producing films under the banner titled Kiran Rao. The 39 year old director would like to support ...
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• Kiran Rao doesn’t believe in women-centric films

  
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  Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who made her directorial debut with “Dhobi Ghat” in 2011, says she prefers creating “challenging roles for women in films” over women-oriented movies. “I don’t believe in women-centric films, but I certainly believe that we should create films that have more challenging roles for women ...
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• Filmmaker IQ – We’re Not Fucking Around Anymore

  
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  Let me be honest with you. Everything you thought you knew about discussing filmmaking online is bullshit. Tech and gear are fun to talk about, and we’ll certainly engage in a bit of consumerism masturbation – but it’s all worthless in the face of what really matters… story. Yeah you may nod your head in ...
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• David Foster Wallace’s This is Water Turns Viral Video

  
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  The L.A.-based production house The Glossary created this homage to writer David Foster Wallace, condensing and illustrating his celebrated Kenyon College commencement speech into nine or so minutes — and scoring over two million YouTube views in the process. Comprised of director Matthew Freidell and producers ...
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• Hippy: “Jason Silva on ‘Abundance’

  
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  Tired of everybody bitching about problems and bringing you down? This might be the guy for you. Jason Silva is what the world is calling a Performing Philosopher, Digital DJ, or Techno-Optimist. He’s been called a “Futurist”, “Timothy Leary of the Viral Age” , “Epiphany Addict”, and “Ray Kurzweil ...
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• The New Digital Storytelling Series: Katerina Cizek

  
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  In the tenth part of Filmmaker‘s interview project with prominent figures from the world of transmedia, conducted through the MIT Open Documentary Lab, Katerina Cizek gives her take on the way digital technology is shaping contemporary storytelling. Cizek is currently the director of the NFB’s HIGHRISE project, ...
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• Need For Speed Wins in Abu Dhabi

  
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  His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, announced the winner of the Aspiring Filmmaker ZUMEFF/ New York Film Academy Award during ZU Middle East Film Festival 2013. Congratulations to Aisha Alkaabi for her film Need for Speed . Aisha will join New York ...
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• Present Tense (2012)

  
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  WHO: Belmin Söylemez directed and co-wrote this. WHAT: This film, about a Turkish fortune-teller named Mina, with dreams of emigration, just won the San Francisco International Film Festival New Directors Prize , an award previously given to promising auteurs like Jia Zhang-Ke (for Xiao Wu  in 1999), Miranda ...
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• CXL (2012)

  
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  WHO: Sean Gillane directed this, and is also credited as cinematographer, editor & co-writer. Full disclosure: Ive known Sean personally for a few years now, mostly through his twitter persona and his annual coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival. WHAT: CXL is an unusual movie with an ...
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• Ray Harryhausen passed today. Prolific animator and visual...

  
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  Ray Harryhausen passed today. Prolific animator and visual effects master. I don’t think I’m over-stating when I say that this guy basically invented visual effects in movies. Onward and Upward  (click for fighting skeletons) ~  maxhell
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• Saul Bass 93rd third birthday Google Doodle HD video

  
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  He was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Google doodle for Saul Bass 93rd birthday Music: Dave Brubeck - "Unsquare Dance" GOOGLE OWNS ALL THE RIGHTS ON THIS ANIMATION VIDEO
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• YouTube Tuesday: The Most Perfect Starcraft II Cheese of All Time Edition

  
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  This week features an eclectic mix of three videos that aren’t really news worthy, making them perfect for YouTube Tuesday. This week’s keyword is impressive as each of these videos are impressive in some way, though not always for the better. There’s some impressive Starcraft 2 cheese and two examples of some ...
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• Helsinki, Forever (2008)

  
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    WHO:  Peter Von Bagh  made this. WHAT: I have not seen this film, so let me quote from a short piece by  Jonathan Rosenbaum : a lovely city symphony which is also a history of Helsinki (and incidentally, Finland, Finnish cinema, and Finnish pop music) recounted with film clips and paintings Sounds great, ...
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• THIS WEEK: REDBOX & ELLEN OFFER FREE “SHELTER ME” RENTALS!

  
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  Redbox keeps giving! Last week, they donated 100% of proceeds from rentals of PBS film “ Shelter Me ” to the Halo Pet Foundation . This week, they’re offering Ellen fans free rentals! All you have to do is text SHELTERME to 727272 to receive a special code for a free “ Shelter Me ” rental. “ ...
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• The Coolest Film in the World (Still a Better Love Story Than Twilight)

  
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  IBM is pretty cool. As part of their ongoing research into data storage based on single atoms, they’ve made the world’s tiniest film. It’s called ‘A Boy and his Atom’. It uses a handful of carbon atoms (a  figurative handful of carbon atoms, obviously). A few dozen individual atoms to create a little ...
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• Question of the Week: Who gave your favorite performance(s) of 2013 so far?

  
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  Hello everyone! Well, April has been quite an eclectic movie watching month for me, as you’ll see in my monthly roundup is coming tomorrow. Since I’ve been working on a bunch of indie reviews lately, I feel like taking a bit of break today. Instead, I’d like to pick your brains a bit my fellow [...]
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• How to request fee waivers (and actually get them)

  
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    Are you looking for ways to save money on festival submissions fees? With fees starting at $20 and ranging as high as $100 per submission, those fees can add up quickly. One popular way of reducing these costs is to ask festivals directly for fee waivers. I’m starting my second season working with filmmakers at ...
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