A couple months ago we wrote about Shanta. Amy wrote, “…she really gets it!” –meaning that Shanta seemed to sense that being part of our film might have a bigger effect on her life than just the several days’ interruption us and our cameras made.
On our first day with Shanta, as we had with most of [...]
In a little bout of clicking around, here’s something wonderful I found. This short documentary is almost obscenely lovely, fancy in a plainspoken way. A lot of filmmaking went into this. It is the more compelling for it.
I’m digging it because it flirts with the edge of journalism in a way that I am really [...]
Looks like MultimediaShooter.com is back. And at my old school, no less. It was a sad day when the old blog/site got taken down. I just learned about its resurrection on a blog by a Spokane newspaper photo/videojournalist/storyteller guy, called Mastering Multimedia.
And for him to be going to do his thing at Berkeley! Man, tell [...]
A friend and former client wrote recently to note of congratulations on the upcoming release of Edges of Bounty, saying she’d pre-ordered it at Amazon.com.
And I’m all like, “Hey, that’s my book! Right there on Amazon!” I guess authors are supposed to have a complicated relationship with that place. I’m not quite that cool yet [...]
A couple of years ago I made Amy a gift of a subscription to the remarkable Journal of Short Film. This is something pretty nifty: a DVD magazine, or a film festival for your mailbox.
Sign up for the exceedingly reasonable subscription, and four times a year, a very nicely produced DVD volume of short films [...]
