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Ken Burns
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Ken Burns was at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend, where I spoke with him on the street, before he came to San Francisco for a special screening of his new series, The War, this weekend at the Letterman Digital Arts Center. “The War” airs on television September 23rd.
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Hi-def independent films online with Jaman
Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives us all a new way to find and watch ...
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Red Without Blue: Mark and Clair Farley
Mark Farley and Clair Farley were born identical male twins. Six months ago, Clair changed her gender. Their story is told in a lovely, heartfelt documentary film, Red Without Blue. The film showed at Frameline 31, the LGBT Film Festival, and will be showing on the Sundance ...
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A. (anonymous)
A. (anonymous) is an independent film made here, in St. Louis, directed by Daniel Bowers. It’s an improvised comedy mockumentary about a support group for anyone with any kind of problem. It’s been shown in festivals around the country and has gotten some really great reviews. The film was released ...
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Graham Leggat
The San Francisco International Film Society has a new director, Graham Leggat. He (and about 50 other people, he tells me) put on a spectacular opening night for the 50th Anniversary. It’s the oldest film festival in America and it’s had its ups and downs, but things are looking up ...
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Opera Director Makes His First Movie
Shi-Zheng Chen is a renowned singer, choreographer and director of operas all over the world. I spoke with him at the San Francisco Asian Fim Festival, where his directorial debut feature film, “Dark Matter” played closing night.
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Tom Luddy Movie Picks
Last weekend, the “Witness to War: Documentary Perspectives World War II to Iraq” was programmed by the inestimable and reliable Tom Luddy. He has had a long and varied career in the business that has, in part, resulted in him producing eleven movies. He also started the
CES 2007 Keynote: Disney CEO Robert Iger
A star-studded cast joined Walt Disney President and CEO Robert Iger on stage to tout new media during his keynote address at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, “Lost” stars Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly and ESPN’s Mike Tirico joined Iger, who unveiled a revamped Disney.com Web site ...
LA Film Fest: Costume Design is About Creating Character on Any Budget
Deborah Nadoolman Landis, president of The Costume Designer’s Guild, Local 892 in Hollywood, emphatically asserts that costume designers help actors discover their characters. And while big budget movies give designers plenty of resources, it’s not about the budget says Landis–it’s about the script. She appeared on a panel held at ...
LA Film Fest: Documentary - East of Havana
The 2006 LA Film Festival, featured the documentary “East of Havana”. In this podcast, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with the films directors Juaretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal, as well as the producers, Juan Carlos Saizarbitoria and actress Charlize Theron.
The film is described as “An unflinching close-up on the lives ...
LA Film Fest: All Hail the Drama of Darkon, The Movie.
Film Independent, the Los Angeles Film Festival organizer, threw a “Porch Party” at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with some of the revelers as well as Film Independent’s Educational Director Maria Bozzi, and FI’s Filmmaker Labs Manager, Josh Welsh.
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LA Film Fest: "Porch Party" Core Sounds
Film Independent, the Los Angeles Film Festival organizer, threw a “Porch Party” at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with some of the revelers as well as Film Independent’s Educational Director Maria Bozzi, and FI’s Filmmaker Labs Manager, Josh Welsh.
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LA Film Fest: Festival Chief Shooting for Berlin, Toronto, Cannes
The director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Richard Raddon, says that being overshadowed by Hollywood isn’t the challenge one might think. He says it’s a plus that Hollywood directors and actors live in the neighborhood, literally. The LA Film Festival is held in Westwood Village. Raddon is counting on ...
Intel Sponsored: LA Film Festival - Technology's Starring Role
Intel helped bring together movie and technology experts to show and tell how the Internet is changing the entertainment industry. Plus, festival goers saw the future of home entertainment and got to test drive the latest home entertainment systems powered by Intel Viiv Technology and entertainment laptops with Intel Centrino ...
LA Film Fest: Skywalker Sound Designer Says Best Tech Tools Are Transparent
Randy Thom, one of the film industry’s leading film sound designers, says he appreciates the capabilities of faster computer chips and higher performance storage in systems. But he echoes the sentiments of every I.T. manager: he doesn’t want to be forced to think about them. PodTech’s Jason Lopez caught up ...
LA Film Fest: Clickstar Forging Online Path to Film Distribution
It’s not a matter of if we’ll be watching movies downloaded on our home theater systems, it’s a matter of when. James Ackerman, CEO of the film producer and distributor Clickstar, points to the convergence of faster chips, media friendly operating systems, broadband adoption, better screens, and access to content. ...
LA Film Fest: Web is Mandatory for Indie Film Distribution
Independent media distribution over the Internet was once talked about–by independent content creators–as if it were a real option. But it was never realistic on a wide scale basis. The bandwidth, hardware and audience weren’t there. But times have changed. The tools to push content effectively over broadband connections are ...
Digital Stuffing: The Making of the movie "The Puffy Chair"
Brothers Mark & Jay Duplass admit that they’ve made a lot of bad films, but they said ” …it wasn’t unil we started shooting digitally and we started just taking all the chances that we needed to take to come up with something unique and something special…it’s kind ...
Werner Herzog: Digital Home Theater vs. The Movie Palace is "The Mother of All Battles"
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Acclaimed film director Werner Herzog says new developments in film making occurring around the world coupled with advancements in feature and documentary production are optimistic signs for the independent cinema industry. ...Tech Mile High Club - Gaming at 35,000 over Greenland as Top European Gamers take on the Top US Gamers
WiFi on the plane. One word ‘awesome’. I’m sitting here at 35,o00 feet and I’m surrounded by the professional gamers from Europe. Intel and SAS have teamed up to provide WiFi on this flight to NY where the top European and American gamers face off in the ...
Sundance Film Festival -Intel's Rajeev Puran
Sundance goes Silicon Valley and Technology. I love it and Intel is on a roll now that the CES announcements are out of the way. Intel rolled into Park City for Sundance and setup a digital entertainment zone.
Raj Puran of Intel talks about Viiv platform, Centrino ...
Sundance Film Festival: Think Mobile - Movies on the Go
Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah. PodTech and PodTech News, on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival, caught up with some new cool stuff from a company called Think Mobile’s Kevin Quandt. Here is a podcast of a company called Think Mobile that has developed technology ...
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