Espresso Book Machine (DVD Macchiato Soon?)

Checked out the Espresso book machine today at McNally Jackson books. It’s an on-demand printer that can print and bind a single copy of a book. They had some samples out and it was quite impressive – I couldn’t tell the difference in quality from...

Now Available on DVD

Last week I officially finished You 2.0, the doc that delayed graduation a semester, and self released it on DVD. It’s a niche film, and I felt like it would work better just selling it myself as a DVD (it has a unique structure) rather than waste time trying to...

The State of the Documentary [Panel]

Below are my notes from the one panel I attended at Full Frame – The State of the Doc. It’s a little more cheerful than Mark Gill’s outlook on independent cinema, though re-reading this now, some panelists seemed to be predicting what was going to...

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...