If you’re in NYC this coming week, you might want to check out the offerings at the Third Annual Zero Film Festival. At a time when the traditional “independent” film festivals have become increasingly corporatized, it’s comforting to know that new avenues of truly independent film continue to open up. From their About Us: Zero

If you’re in NYC this coming week, you might want to check out the offerings at the Third Annual Zero Film Festival. At a time when the traditional “independent” film festivals have become increasingly corporatized, it’s comforting to know that new avenues of truly independent film continue to open up. From their About Us: Zero

I’ve written about open source filmmaking before, so I thought I’d share a website that I just discovered, MoviePals. They explain their mission thus: “MoviePals is focused on developing a platform that allows you to participate in the filmmaking process from pre to post-production to earning a revenue share.” On a variety of fronts, MoviePals’

After a couple of tech-focused posts, I thought it was high time to provide a bit of perspective by mentioning a short film I watched this past week, which was made on a scanner. The short was shown at this year’s Disposable Film Festival whose mission statement is “to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable

In case you haven’t been following recent tech news, both Canon and Sony have responded to Nikon’s announcement of the D3100. It was only inevitable…but within a week? Having recently purchased a T2i, I am glad to see that Canon does not plan to rest on its laurels. For an initial review of the Canon

For those of you who have been waiting for Nikon to catch up to Canon’s HD DSLR offerings, your wait is (finally!) coming to an end. At first blush, Nikon’s D3100 looks like an incredibly serious challenge to the other cameras in the market segment (and particularly Canon’s T2i). Some of the D3100′s chief selling

Sam Raimi’s response to a question at ComicCon is golden: “My advice to young filmmakers is to make a movie every week…write every night and every weekend shoot for two days…[edit] and get a response…see where it works and where it doesn’t work…where your ideas weren’t being communicated properly and learn from that experience sitting

Variety recently published a nice article on Sylvester Stallone as an Independent Filmmaker. I appreciated the piece because it's a reminder that independent filmmakers can be found anywhere. This should go without saying, but I've found that many independents have a chip on their shoulder about not working in Hollywood. It would seem that Stallone is the exception rather than the rule, but it is refreshing to be reminded that our neat little categories and boxes are of relative value. Particularly interesting for film buffs is the role Stallone's films played

I just stumbled upon Bank Run, an interactive movie/video game created by Portland-based Silk Tricky (& Co.). If you haven’t checked it out yet, you owe it to yourself to do so. Bank Run is brilliant in a number of ways: 1) It’s addictive. Bank Run fuses narrative film with interactivity in a way that

If you’ve ever dreamed of creating films using your camera phone, Darklight’s “Free Your Film” competition may be for you. What is particularly cool about this competition is that the winners will use their prize money to shoot their short film using Sony Ericsson’s new Vivaz HD Camera Phone. Looking through the Vivaz site, however,