Flickchart – Finding the Best Movies

Flickchart aims to answer one long plaguing question – if so many movies are rated five stars, which one’s the best? Yes, AFI tried to answer that question. But Citizen Kane? Really? It was his stupid sled. Flickchart’s method is painfully simple....

How I Used My DVR to Set My Career Goals

With graduation looming closer and more people asking me what I want to do, I need to come up with a more concrete answer. Director or produce? Fiction or documentary? With the way the summer’s been going, I’m leaning towards producing. As for fiction and...

Driving with Geoffrey Gilmore [Part 3 of 5]

This is part three of a five part adventure that involves driving Geoffrey Gilmore (the Director of the Sundance Film Festival) around Tallahassee, Diet Cokes, private jets, The Visitor, tea, a 4 am flight, and of course, coffee. Part one and Part two. Geoffrey, the...

Contests, Permits, Lego Vault, et al [Coffee Break]

Contests Cinema Prosprite – $35,000 in Prizes Awarded to Top Videos Profiling Entrepreneurs Riding on the waves of micro-loans, this short doc contest is for films profiling an entrepreneur (they don’t explicitly say, but it seems they want entrepreneurs...

Can I Get You Some Coffee, Mr. Gilmore?

Geoffrey Gilmore is actually more of a tea drinker. While his name probably doesn’t sound very familiar (unless you’re thinking of Happy), Mr. Gilmore has had a hand in launching the careers and films of practically every famous independent film and...

The Magic of the Ikea Big Blue Bag

It’s back to producing mode, so here’s one of my favorite and least expensive tools: the Ikea Big Blue Bag. About a year or so ago, Ikea started charging five cents for plastic bags. So I picked up three of these for 59 cents each (and snuck one of the...

It’s Dailies, Not Weeklies

In a perfect film set world (real world), you shoot for the day, send the film to the lab that night to be processed, return the next day, shoot some more, and then during lunch (or beginning/end of the day), you watch what you shot the previous day. These are called...