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Trailer For ‘Last Hijack’ A Documentary That Uses Live Action & Animation To Tell The Story Of Somali Pirates

• 05 February 2014
• SoundOnSight

A trailer for the forthcoming documentary Last Hijack has been released online, and it looks pretty amazing. Directed by Tommy Pallotta (American Prince) and Femke Wolting (Another Perfect World), ...

Exclusive: Watch The Trailer For Animated/Live Action Doc 'Last Hijack' Premiering At The Berlin Film Festival

• 04 February 2014
• The Playlist

Part of the reason why Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips" was so effective both as a drama and thriller was that it took the time to humanize the antagonists of the film. Less villains and more the ...

Seven Rare Films To Watch Now Before Google Video Dies

• 18 April 2011
• IFC

This post will self-destruct in two weeks...well, not exactly, but the videos below will be since Google unceremoniously announced the end of Google Video over the weekend that they are putting a ...

Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 2)

• 16 March 2011
• Flickeringmyth

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the second of a five-part feature... read part one here. “It’s true that some films will involve me more than ...

Pallotta Puts American Prince On Bittorrent

• 15 June 2009
• Filmmaker Magazine

When we last checked in with producer and director Tommy Pallotta, he was talking about distributing his latest documentary, American Prince, through BitTorrent for free download by filesharers... but ...

Producer Puts Scorsese Sequel Straight Onto The Torrents

• 12 June 2009
• Slash Film

Tommy Pallotta, producer of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, has released his new film, American Prince, directly into the bit torrent file-sharing community. The film is a sequel to Martin ...

SXSW in 60 Seconds: Thursday, March 19, 2009

• 20 March 2009
• Cinematical

I returned home from Austin yesterday and am still suffering from SXSW Separation Anxiety. Shawn Levy of The Oregonian sums it up well: "Frankly, music people are nuts compared to the film people (who ...

SXSW Review: American Prince

• 20 March 2009
• Cinematical

More than 30 years ago, Martin Scorsese decided to spend an evening -- more than a day, really -- filming his friend Steven Prince as he told all kinds of strange and fascinating stories about his ...

@SXSW: For The Love Of Fair Use

• 16 March 2009
• Filmmaker Magazine

Sub-theme for me at SXSW this year: Fair Use. A day after posting my article on Tommy Pallotta about his American Prince, which employs a Fair Use strategy to include film clips illustrating doc ...

SXSW Exclusive: 'American Prince' Poster and Two Clips

• 10 March 2009
• Cinematical

Click image below to view full poster Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster and two clips for American Prince, a documentary directed by animator/filmmaker Tommy Pallotta, who was a ...

Director Tommy Pallotta On The Pleasures Of Leaving Facebook

• 17 February 2009
• Filmmaker Magazine

While in Rotterdam for the festival I caught up with director and producer Tommy Pallotta, who recently a) finished a new doc, American Prince, that will premiere at SXSW next month; b) moved to ...