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For more on Ryan Balas & Carter, go here . The DVD of Carter is now available for purchase. And here is the trailer to the film: Carter Trailer from Ryan Balas on Vimeo . :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/ Blogger: User Profile: alfonse maiorino http://www.blogger.com/profile/01850766319936497029 Alfonse Maiorino / Al Maiorino blog  -  almaiorino .blogspot.com/ Alfonse Maiorino -  Linkedin http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2012/04/al-maiorino-linkedin.html New Projects COMING SOON at: Alfonse Maiorino blog 2 http://alfonsemaiorino2.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogger-user-profile-alfonse-maiorino.html Alfonse Maiorino blog 3 http://alfonsemaiorino3.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogger-user-profile-alfonse-maiorino.html Alfonse Maiorino blog 4 http://alfonsemaiorino4.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-blogger-profile.html Alfonse Maiorino blog

I am glad this is happening - read about one example of filmmakers getting more seriously into distribution at this indieWIRE article about the new distribution company 7-57 Releasing . But on to the lower levels financially, to the DIY world - this same approach - creating more robust distribution operations for independent/off-Hollywood movies - can be done also by DIY filmmakers. The difference between this approach - I am calling it Distribution Crews when we apply it to DIY filmmakers & our projects - and DIY self-distribution from 2 years ago is that the former one relied exclusively or mostly on the filmmaker having to get the distribution work done. But in this new approach, the filmmaker would take the role that a DIY/indie writer/producer/director would take during production - organizing & directing several other people in order to accomplish a complex task. How would this actually manifest in the real world? Let's say I finish a movie, and I want to show it for

I believe this is the official debut of the title of my new fiction feature - previously referred to on this blog as Brooklyn Movie - and the title is Brooklyn Fantastic . The website for the film will come alive in April, but in the meantime Brooklyn Fantastic production news can be found at its production blog , launched today. From the welcome message on the Brooklyn Fantastic blog : "Welcome to the production blog for the 2009 feature comedy-drama Brooklyn Fantastic - a film about attempting to start over in a new city & searching for a valuable object. BF stars Susan Buice (Four Eyed Monsters), Amir Motlagh (Whale), and features several other talented actors from the emerging NYC DIY/new independent film community. BF is written & directed by Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One)." Vist the BF blog here . - Sujewa :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/

I won't be at SXSW so I'll have to catch this very interesting looking movie some other time, but, for folks who are gonna be in Austin next week, here are the screening times (as of today) for Ry Russo-Young's new movie: " Narrative Feature :: screening in: Special Screenings Screening Times 9:30 PM, Friday March 13th - Alamo Lamar 2 Add this to my SXSW Calendar 7:30 PM, Tuesday March 17th - Alamo Ritz 2 Add this to my SXSW Calendar 7:30 PM, Friday March 20th - Alamo Lamar 3 Add this to my SXSW Calendar everything subject to change" From this page at the SXSW '09 site . :: ADVERTISEMENT Alfonse Maiorino  - Italian Genealogy, Public Strategy Group, & more! -  http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/ Blogger: User Profile: alfonse maiorino http://www.blogger.com/profile/01850766319936497029 Alfonse Maiorino / Al Maiorino blog  -  almaiorino .blogspot.com/ Alfonse Maiorino -  Linkedin http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2012/04/al-maior

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Here's an episode from Anne Flournoy's show The Louise Log :

Get the whole story at KOMU.com .

Learned of a couple - such as Crashing (pictured above), sounds interesting - that even I had not heard of - at this page at No Budget Film School site .

So I spent a few hours today researching, talking & arguing a little about, also calling up my own visual memories/reactions to seeing the two formats used in well made indie features, and in the end I am leaning towards using the DVX100B/24p SD for the new fiction feature vs. using an HDV camera or using a true HD camera w/ P2 cards for a couple of reasons: - the narrative feature that was shot on the dvx100 cam using dv tape felt more like a narrative feature for the most part than the cinematography award winning, & excellent looking, HD w/ P2 cards shot narrative feature - which reminded me of a really well made high quality television show in its look & my resulting emotional reaction to it. - also, i feel like (and this could be just an amount of $s available at the moment thing, and if money was no obstacle i may not even be having this discussion) the great access-to-poor-filmmakers equalizing breakthrough that happened with MiniDV tapes (less than $10 for 1 hour of

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Mystery Train, still my favorite movie by Jim Jarmusch and probably my all time favorite movie. In celebration, here is an MT trailer:

I'll have to check out MLIA just for the title alone - very good choice whoever picked it. From the brief review at Indigenity blog (nice yellow background at that blog btw, & great title design - good job Erin): " "No Wave Douglas Sirk" isn't a bad description for this movie, but I see shades of Wes Anderson here, too; not only with the stylization but also with the characterization of Adrian and the sadness underneath it all. Leading lady Melodie Sisk is a curvy, husky-voiced leading lady in the vein of Susan Hayward and Kathleen Turner, and Maggie Ross' comical performance conceals the innate desperation of Adrian. The only bone I had to pick, really, was the death-metal music, which came off loud on my DVD player (but maybe sounds better in a theater setting). Even that, however, seems to be compliant with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs production values of Modern Love." Read the rest of the Modern Love Is Automatic review at Indigenity .

Read the interview at The Film Panel Notetaker . :: :: LINKS 2013 Oscar Nominees Breakthrough Weekend teaser trailer - on Vimeo - HD Breakthrough Weekend teaser trailer on YouTube Indiewire ::

Read about it & hear it at One Way Community blog .

Here is the intro to the interview : "The top prize for narrative filmmaking at the 2007 AFI Fest went to Lee Isaac Chung for his first feature, MUNYURANGABO , about two young men, one Hutu and one Tutsi, on a journey through Rwanda’s haunted countryside. Upon earning a BA in Biology at Yale as a pre-med student, Isaac Chung took a chance on his side-passion for cinema and earned an MFA in Film Studies at the University of Utah in 2005. Once Dept. Chair Kevin Hanson pointed him in the direction of the films to see, he approached cinema “monastically,” viewing ten or more films a week and doing nothing but thinking and working on the craft. After his wife began volunteering at YWAM Rwanda as an art therapist for women survivors still traumatized by the genocide, Isaac Chung joined her there, offering film instruction. Diane Sippl: So how did Munyurangabo get off the ground? Isaac Chung: I decided that making a film together with Rwandan students would be the best way for them to

Whale Trailer First Feature Film by Amir Motlagh - The best video clips are right here Just saw Whale - the debut feature by Amir Motlagh - here are some thoughts about it (am not a film critic, and am a fan of Amir's film work - have been for a while since watching the short Still Lover a few years back): So what's Whale about in a broad sense? It's about young-ish men - dudes pushing 30, right around 30, dealing with unexpected changes (a pregnant girlfriend in one case), yet-unrealized old ambitions (an unfinished novel, a writing career that has yet to materialize despite years of work), and, for one reason or another, still living at mom's house. In a narrow sense Whale is about a late 20's Iranian-American aspiring writer who moves back in with his parents, re-connects with his old friends, & tries to figure out the next chapter of his life. The acting/non-acting is so flawless Whale appears to be a blend between documentary footage and a foreign/art hous