During film festivals, I gather recorded conversations throughout my stay and then put them into a podcast creating a non linear piece where each show feels like a short film sans the visual part. So, being present as film festival podcaster at BE FILM The Underground Film Festival for the entire festival schedule was a […]
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The Limits of Control
04/29/2009
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Everything appears copacetic. And in Jim Jarmusch’s new film THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, he applies Rule #5 of the Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules in filmmaking where he steals from anywhere that resonates with inspiration and fuels his imagination and then breaks the rules creating a film experience with deliberate contemplative shifting through elements of visual […]
Tribeca’s Changing of the Guard
04/13/2009
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As Festival Director with Sundance for two decades, Geoffrey Gilmore witnessed the metamorphosis of independent film’s low budget image to studio feature film-level production value. More product not under studio control infiltrated the film markets vying for the same theatrical exhibition regions and ancillary routes. The dam burst and in the past year we witnessed […]
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
05/07/2009
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