DIGITAL CELLULOID – ISSUE 10: OLD JASON IS SLOW
Digital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming blockbuster, no film is safe! This week, Digital Celluloid goes back to Crystal Lake of the 80’s and asks the question: Why didn’t they simply run away faster…
THE AMERICAN
It’s much more personal, subdued, even intimate—and obviously something one of our era’s great faces sees as an story that he could explore beyond his normal (but already high level) comic and dramatic range…
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: FILM MARKET BAGS, BOOTHS, AND YOU
Film market bags and sales booths can’t tell you everything about your international distributor, but they can tell you about how your film will be positioned on the worldwide stage…
Latest Podcast
FILM THREAT PODCAST – EPISODE 16 – ALL ABOUT SCOTT PILGRIMDon and Mark start off talking about Paul Le Mat but can’t help but ponder the box office experience of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” and what factors contributed to the final opening weekend tally. Of course, not wanting to make it all about one thing, the conversation turns to “A Serbian Film” and then very little is said, but many words are used…
Posted on August 17, 2010 in Podcasts by Mark Bell
Latest Features
DIGITAL CELLULOID – ISSUE 10: OLD JASON IS SLOWDigital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming blockbuster, no film is safe! This week, Digital Celluloid goes back to Crystal Lake of the 80’s and asks the question: Why didn’t they simply run away faster…
Posted on September 1, 2010 in Digital Celluloid, Features by Chris Cirillo
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: FILM MARKET BAGS, BOOTHS, AND YOUFilm market bags and sales booths can’t tell you everything about your international distributor, but they can tell you about how your film will be positioned on the worldwide stage…
Posted on August 31, 2010 in Features, Going Bionic by Hammad Zaidi
Latest Film Festival Stories
2010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUPThe 2010 Woodstock Film Festival, taking place September 29-October 3, today announced their lineup of films, panels and special events (but not their Opening Night Film), and the festival appears packed to capacity with strong films…
Posted on September 1, 2010 in Festivals by Mark Bell
FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION TO TAKE PLACE SEPTEMBER 2010 IN LAIt’s only a year old, and it takes place in one day, but the Festival of (In)appropriation has us intrigued. Scheduled for September 19, 2010 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, the festival showcases “contemporary short (20 minutes or less) audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in “inappropriate” and inventive ways”…
Posted on August 24, 2010 in Festivals by Mark Bell
Latest Reviews
A CABIN IN TIMELet’s face it, when you are an independent filmmaker and you make something that, had you the talent, connections and money, is mainstream enough to come out of Hollywood, you better dazzle your audience in some fashion…
Posted on September 2, 2010 in Reviews by Doug Brunell
THE AMERICANIt’s much more personal, subdued, even intimate—and obviously something one of our era’s great faces sees as an story that he could explore beyond his normal (but already high level) comic and dramatic range…
Posted on September 1, 2010 in Reviews by Elias Savada
A FILM ABOUT ANNA AKHMATOVALandauer doesn’t help matters by throwing in miles of irrelevant film footage with absolutely no connection to Akhmatova’s experiences…
Posted on September 1, 2010 in Reviews by Phil Hall
Latest Interviews
THE MILLION HIT MAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN DUNNEWhen Sean Dunne uploaded his short documentary “The Archive” to Vimeo, he had no idea he’d become an overnight cult sensation. Still it happened, a mind-blowing, life changing explosion—proving once again, that dreams really can come true in the 21st century…
Posted on August 15, 2010 in Interviews by Amy R. Handler
SEEING DOUBLE MESRINE: INTERVIEW WITH VINCENT CASSELAs real-life French madman Jacques Mesrine, Vincent Cassel blasts us with both barrels in “Killer Instinct” and “Public Enemy No. 1”…
Posted on August 11, 2010 in Interviews by KJ Doughton
Latest News and Blogs
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON FANS TO PREVIEW THIS SUNDAY IN LOS ANGELES“The Way He Makes Them Feel,” a documentary film about Michael Jackson fans, will be having a number of preview screenings this Sunday, August 29, 2010, at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles…
Posted on August 26, 2010 in News by Mark Bell
DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTARY: MAILBAG!!!This week it’s mailbag time as editing continues on “Worst in Show”…
Posted on August 5, 2010 in Blogs by Don R. Lewis
ARE YOU A FILM THREAT?Are you a filmmaker? Are you currently in production and looking for funds via Kickstarter, IndieGoGo or other crowdfunding efforts? Let Film Threat know about your project and, once a week, we’ll showcase one project we deem to be worthy of being a “Certified Film Threat in Progress”…
Posted on July 18, 2010 in Certified Film Threat in Progress, News by Mark Bell
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. MEWAIT! Put the brick down! I love the comic, I love the world it created and I still cannot wait for Edgar Wright’s cinematic interpretation… but I don’t like the character of Scott Pilgrim, because I think he’s a prick…
Posted on July 13, 2010 in Blogs by Mark Bell
DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTARY (PART 3): DISCOVERING YOUR STORYIn my last entry I talked about how I decided to get started making documentaries. It basically boiled down to; I was too inexperienced and insecure to make a narrative short or feature, my time was limited (or better, I needed to make it in a time frame that was logical to my job schedule) and I had an interest in the “strange but true” world of documentary filmmaking…
Posted on July 9, 2010 in Blogs by Don R. Lewis
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