Today’s guest is one of those passionate filmmakers that you could talk to for hours and not realize how much time has flown by. I met Terrie Samundra while I was filming the promo video for the SF Bay Area Windrider Forum (a sort of mini-Sundance designed to generate meaningful discussions around the films screened). […]
Edward Burns Crosses the Gap Between Old Hollywood and New
I think it’s a fitting end to my week-long series on the New, New Hollywood filmmaker by talking about Edward Burns. You may recall that Burns hit it big and had the ultimate filmmaker’s dream come true when his indie film “The Brothers McMullen” became a critical, festival, and box office hit back in 1995. Since […]
25 Things I Love About Julian Smith
Today is day 4 of the challenge I started Monday. For you to find three new filmmakers to follow and learn from and/or be inspired by. I suggested to pick three filmmakers who are part of what I call the New, New Hollywood—original content creators taking advantage of online media to do what every filmmaker […]
Matt Koval is “NextUp” On My List of New Filmmakers to Follow
Today I continue the series I started Monday, where I encourage you, my devoted readers, to seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldy go… (okay, I’m sure you’re tired of the Star Trek references). Anyhoo, I challenged you to leap out of your comfortable little world of super star wedding, event, DSLR or commercial photog […]
Wong Fu Productions Has the Perfect Business Model
As I mentioned yesterday, this week I’m highlighting a few YouTube super stars I’ve been following whose stories I think are great inspiration for many of you in the DSLR filmmaking world. Sometimes I feel we’re all in our own little boxes, following all the same people and never expanding our horizons. My hope is […]
Featured Filmmaker Friday: David Robin and His Viral Video Adventure (c180-033)
Today we interrupt our “Women in Film” series to bring you a podcast exclusive. An interview with event filmmaker David Robin. If you’re in the event filmmaking world, there’s no doubt you’ve heard of David. A 25 year veteran in the industry, David is a multi-award winning videographer, speaker, and filmmaker to the stars…literally. He’s done […]
Literal Truth vs. Emotional Truth in Event Filmmaking
When I first started in this business (nine years ago this month by the way), I produced wedding films in a style that today people call “cinematic short form.” They were cinematic…and they were short. 🙂 (That is, short compared to the 90 minute to 2-hour wedding videos that a lot of studios were doing […]
Should Documentary Interviewees Look Into the Camera?
To look or not too look into the camera. THAT is the question.
Featured Filmmaker Friday: Karen Abad (c180-032)
Today we continue our women filmmakers series with cinematographer and editor at Zacuto films, Karen Abad. Karen is a filmmaker who knows her stuff. Starting out in celluoid during her time at San Francisco’s Academy of Art, Karen has a keen sense of story, a good eye, and knows what she does best. She has […]
Five Tips to Perfect Your Pre-production
Ask any filmmaker worth her weight in salt and she’ll tell you that perhaps the most important part in the filmmaking process is pre-production. The more planning and preparation you can do ahead of time, the better the rest of the process will be. Today I want to share with you five tips to perk […]