Software as the key artform of the 21st Century

Isn’t it time we stopped talking about media and returned to the term artform? A medium is ultimately physical in our understanding of it, no matter how enhanced or extended it may be. For me, one of the main achievements of the digital revolution is to have separated creative content from media. Now, no longer [...]

32A in Cinemas

[youtube dysIJlVXE0g] We’re finally in the cinemas in Ireiand with our feature, 32A. It’s been a long haul and the final step is one we have to take ourselves. Independent cinema faces a lot of new challenges. On the one side, there’s competition for audience eyeballs from the internet and computer gaming. And on the [...]

Alles

There’s many nice things you can receive in the post from a festival, an acceptance letter, a prize and hey, a cheque is always good. Last week, we got an envelope at the office we didn’t expect. The Berlinale sent us out an envelope with t-shirts for each of our lead actresses, all wrapped up [...]

The Problem with Punk

Peter Carlton of Film Four in the UK has said that they make films your mother wouldn’t like. If you’re a filmmaker it’s a constant mantra from financiers… “hip and edgy”. A few years back, I went to the local supermarket and was loading up the aisles when I noticed the music over the tannoys. [...]

Once

Saw ‘Once’ again…. I love this movie… Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-105-blankimage”).onload();

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good…

Nothing quite an old geezer who knows his stuff…. Paul Rand discussing his approach to work. Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-86-blankimage”).onload();

32A trailer

The trailer for our upcoming feature film, 32A, being premiered in Galway at the Film Fleadh this Friday. There’s more information at the Janey Pictures website. Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-83-blankimage”).onload();

Four Eyed Monsters on YouTube

I blogged about these two before. They have now put their feature, all of it, on YouTube for free and legal viewing for one week only…. They have a promotion whereby for each viewers who sign up with Spout, a film review site, Spout will give them 1 dollar. Sign up and help these guys [...]

Susan and Arin

I’ve followed these two for the past couple of years… it’s been amazing to watch them fulfill what the ongoing development of digital media has promised. Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, and their project Four Eyed Monsters. They are two filmmakers who, like many others, set out to make their first feature. They were perhaps [...]

The future of film financing?

Cinematech recently did some interesting coverage of current projects out there seeking finance online, Howard Dean style. http://cinematech.blogspot.com/ It’s too easy to view these projects a little harshly, and no doubt some of them may be finding finance difficult for a reason. But generally I think that would be too simple. Film financing is such [...]