Last month, I travelled to San Diego to spend three days at Comic-Con, the massive annual gathering of fans of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics and related pop culture. It was my first time to the event and I was there to screen my new sci-fi short Digital Antiquities at the Comic-Con Independent Film Festival. I’ve been to many festivals with my films, but Comic-Con was an experience like no other. The scale of the event and passion of the fans were overwhelming, and as an indie filmmaker I found the experience both incredibly inspiring and deeply humbling.
Digital Antiquities
In early January, I delivered the final cut of my new short film Digital Antiquities. Commissioned by Itvs, the film was part of season two of Futurestates, an online series of sci-fi shorts about America’s future (that’s a picture of me on set). This season premiered online in March,...
Digital Antiquities
In early January, I delivered the final cut of my new short film Digital Antiquities. Commissioned by Itvs, the film was part of season two of Futurestates, an online series of sci-fi shorts about America’s future (that’s a picture of me on set). This season premiered online in March,...
- 8/15/2011
- by J.P. Chan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
So, you normally don't hear about what women are directing in horror, sci-fi, and fantasy? That's because other assholes don't write about it. Only this asshole does. And there's a lot of new films projects you'll want to check out, if you're a real fannerd.
Aside from German-language release Lollipop Monster by Franziska Riemann and Larysa Kondracki's thriller in mainstream theaters, The Whistleblower, there's a bunch of shit to check out this summer.
Also in theaters is director/writer Miranda July's fantasy film The Future (see our review) opening on August 5th, 2011. This is July's second feature as director, the first being Me and You and Everyone We Know, which everyone who loves arty movies said was amazing. There's a talking cat and romance and a goregous beauty to The Future. Watch the stunning trailer:
At the end of August, 2011, FrightFest UK in London is screening Emily Hagin's...
Aside from German-language release Lollipop Monster by Franziska Riemann and Larysa Kondracki's thriller in mainstream theaters, The Whistleblower, there's a bunch of shit to check out this summer.
Also in theaters is director/writer Miranda July's fantasy film The Future (see our review) opening on August 5th, 2011. This is July's second feature as director, the first being Me and You and Everyone We Know, which everyone who loves arty movies said was amazing. There's a talking cat and romance and a goregous beauty to The Future. Watch the stunning trailer:
At the end of August, 2011, FrightFest UK in London is screening Emily Hagin's...
- 7/6/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
First, a quick reminder that entries on several films playing here or there have been updated through today: Film Socialisme, Agrarian Utopia, Road to Nowhere and The Tree of Life. Alright, on with the weekend...
"Jj Abrams imitates to flatter with Super 8, an homage to the seminal science fiction films of Steven Spielberg that succumbs to empty nostalgic pandering," argues Nick Schager in Slant. "As with his Star Trek, Abrams's latest puts a modern spin on classical material, though here reinvention isn't the goal so much as slavish duplication embellished with muscular CG effects. It's akin to returning to a cinematic womb of Spielbergian father-son issues, suburban households under extraterrestrial strain, and teen romance, friendship, and maturation via out-of-this-world circumstances. The effect of such a modus operandi is initial coziness quickly giving way to disheartening familiarity, with Abrams's own preoccupations (if he had any to begin with) becoming subsumed beneath the root themes,...
"Jj Abrams imitates to flatter with Super 8, an homage to the seminal science fiction films of Steven Spielberg that succumbs to empty nostalgic pandering," argues Nick Schager in Slant. "As with his Star Trek, Abrams's latest puts a modern spin on classical material, though here reinvention isn't the goal so much as slavish duplication embellished with muscular CG effects. It's akin to returning to a cinematic womb of Spielbergian father-son issues, suburban households under extraterrestrial strain, and teen romance, friendship, and maturation via out-of-this-world circumstances. The effect of such a modus operandi is initial coziness quickly giving way to disheartening familiarity, with Abrams's own preoccupations (if he had any to begin with) becoming subsumed beneath the root themes,...
- 6/12/2011
- MUBI
Three years ago Sundance played host to Mia Trachinger’s weird, beguiling take on the low-fi, sci-fi dystopia genre, Reversion. Odd, playful, melancholy and ultimately riveting, it bounced around the fest circuit for the past couple of years without finding a home with specialty distributors, perhaps a sign of just how ahead of its time it was. A couple of years later Sundance began its Next section, a category for films just like Reversion; adventurous, low budget mindbenders, genre deconstructions and idiosyncratic visions that SXSW would normally be the target destination for. Trachinger, whose Bunny was a success of the festival circuit in 2000, shot Reversion in low end, pre-slr HD, but with ideas and concepts that more than make up for its homemade fell. Like Alphaville or Code 46, the film visits a future that resembles the present, with ordinary spaces (in this case, East Hollywood) dominated by bizarre social pathologies,...
- 6/8/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Imagining America's grim environmental and political future, Futurestates is a series of independent short narrative films created to ask serious questions about how life will be in the near-future if we continue to ignore global warming, immigration policies, and our budget crises. In essence - life is going to suck.
There are some great women filmmakers who have shorts in this free-to-watch series, with storylines and visual styles as varied as the filmmakers themselves.
Annie J. Howell's Tj & Marco is set in 2025 in a socialist United States with strict anti-Spanish language laws and police-state-immigraton policies.
A. Sayeeda Clarke's White describes a New York City wherein global warming causes 120 degree winters.
Suzi Yoonessi's Spring of Sorrow combines fairy tale imagery with water shortages in a desert-like future Earth.
That Which Once Was, by Kimi Takesue, takes place in a vast metropolis after the tragedy of raising temperatures fractures human civilization.
There are some great women filmmakers who have shorts in this free-to-watch series, with storylines and visual styles as varied as the filmmakers themselves.
Annie J. Howell's Tj & Marco is set in 2025 in a socialist United States with strict anti-Spanish language laws and police-state-immigraton policies.
A. Sayeeda Clarke's White describes a New York City wherein global warming causes 120 degree winters.
Suzi Yoonessi's Spring of Sorrow combines fairy tale imagery with water shortages in a desert-like future Earth.
That Which Once Was, by Kimi Takesue, takes place in a vast metropolis after the tragedy of raising temperatures fractures human civilization.
- 4/30/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Twelve screenwriters have been selected to participate in Film Independent's annual Screenwriters Lab, which will runs August 4 through Sept. 11 in Los Angeles.
Writer-producer Meg LeFauve will teach the lab, sponsored by the WGA West and Final Draft.
The six-week program will include such guest speakers as writer-directors Zach Helm, Jonathan Levine, Kasi Lemmons and Jay Duplass; writer-producer Dianna Ossana; and writer Howard Rodman.
This year's participants and their screenplays are: John Benton and Alexandra Brodsky, "Bust"; Soo-Hyun Chung, "Groupie"; Darian and Desha Dauchan, "Kalfou"; Wade Gasque, "Half Truth"; Xochitl Gonzalez, "The (Mostly) True Story of the Crazy Fu*%ed Up Sh*% I Did at Uni High"; Jonathan Hludzinski, "Close to Me"; Cedar Sherbert, "Untitled 'Biscuit' Project"; Mia Trachinger, "What Remains"; Michael Urban, "Difficult Child"; and David Zeiger, "Otherwise Pandemonium."...
Writer-producer Meg LeFauve will teach the lab, sponsored by the WGA West and Final Draft.
The six-week program will include such guest speakers as writer-directors Zach Helm, Jonathan Levine, Kasi Lemmons and Jay Duplass; writer-producer Dianna Ossana; and writer Howard Rodman.
This year's participants and their screenplays are: John Benton and Alexandra Brodsky, "Bust"; Soo-Hyun Chung, "Groupie"; Darian and Desha Dauchan, "Kalfou"; Wade Gasque, "Half Truth"; Xochitl Gonzalez, "The (Mostly) True Story of the Crazy Fu*%ed Up Sh*% I Did at Uni High"; Jonathan Hludzinski, "Close to Me"; Cedar Sherbert, "Untitled 'Biscuit' Project"; Mia Trachinger, "What Remains"; Michael Urban, "Difficult Child"; and David Zeiger, "Otherwise Pandemonium."...
- 8/1/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The Sundance Film Festival announced its New Frontier multimedia, live performance and panel discussion lineup and an added world premiere for the main fest: Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2.
Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and David Arquette and which has no domestic distributor, premieres Jan. 21 out of competition in the Premieres slate. It stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical sequel to Hamlet based on the premise that no one died in the original play. Elisabeth Shue and Melonie Diaz round out the ensemble cast.
This year's seven New Frontier features are art-inspired films that use new narrative structures. Screenings include James Benning's art sculpture study "casting a glance," Michelange Quay's look at Hatian politics Eat, For This is My Body, Jennifer Phang's family drama Half-Life and Mia Trachinger's genetic mutation love story Reversion.
Yang Fudong's historical biographies "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5" and the multi-director French animated omnibus "Fear(s) of the Dark" round out the features slate.
Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and David Arquette and which has no domestic distributor, premieres Jan. 21 out of competition in the Premieres slate. It stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical sequel to Hamlet based on the premise that no one died in the original play. Elisabeth Shue and Melonie Diaz round out the ensemble cast.
This year's seven New Frontier features are art-inspired films that use new narrative structures. Screenings include James Benning's art sculpture study "casting a glance," Michelange Quay's look at Hatian politics Eat, For This is My Body, Jennifer Phang's family drama Half-Life and Mia Trachinger's genetic mutation love story Reversion.
Yang Fudong's historical biographies "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5" and the multi-director French animated omnibus "Fear(s) of the Dark" round out the features slate.
- 12/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Indie film exhibitor Madstone Theaters said Wednesday that it plans to roll out a series of independent films exclusively in its theater locations as part of a new screening series, called Film Forward, running May 1-June 11. Films selected to screen as part of Film Forward will include Mia Trachinger's Bunny, Derek Simonds' Seven and a Match, Tony Gerber's Side Streets, JT Petty's Soft for Digging, Richard W. Bean's Tattoo, A Love Story and Sergio Castilla's Te Amo. Madstone owns and operates seven theaters, with a total of 43 screens. Film Forward will be rolled out in San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Cleveland, Albuquerque, N.M., and Ann Arbor, Mich.
- 4/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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