Park Record Studio highlights from the 2024 festival season
Independent Films

Park Record Studio highlights from the 2024 festival season

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Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Filmmaking Boom in His City – The Hollywood Reporter
Filmmaking

Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Filmmaking Boom in His City – The Hollywood Reporter

Not since the days of Ben-Hur, Cleopatra and Fellini classics like La Dolce Vita has Rome enjoyed the boom in film production it’s experiencing at the moment. From Tom Cruise racing through the eternal city’s narrow streets in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, to Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated immigrant drama Lo Capitano, the Italian capital is in the midst of a resurgence that harkens back to its “Hollywood on the Tiber” heyday.

At the center of all this

Yellowstone actor Denim Richards to local filmmakers: Don’t get ‘tied down’ by budgets
Filmmaking

Yellowstone actor Denim Richards to local filmmakers: Don’t get ‘tied down’ by budgets


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<img src="https://newsday.co.tt/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/23216215-e1706539498946-1024×815.jpg" alt="AFTER CREDITS: A few of the speakers and attendees at a FilmTT Meet and Greet held on January 22, at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, NAPA campus, Port of Spain. From left: Television programming manager Diane Robertson, US actor Denim Richards, FilmTT General Manager Leslie-Ann Wills-Caton, UK/Nigerian talent manager and

Filmmaking in Bangladesh – Raindance
Filmmaking

Filmmaking in Bangladesh – Raindance

Cinema, one of the world’s leading art forms, has long been associated with the Indian subcontinent. First and foremost, its commercial development was exhibition-oriented.

Mr. Hiralal Sen (2 August 1868 – 26 October 1917), Bengal’s genius, organized the first film exhibition in undivided Bengal in 1898. Then he went to film school in London and got involved in the film production process. The journey of the filmmaker begins here. Many people continued on this same trajectory and went on to receive advanced filmmaking training in London. Not only in London, but Europe, America, Asia, and especially from the Film and Television

Hardcore in the Valley: Spotlight on punk sound emerging from outside Ottawa
Emerging Musicians

Hardcore in the Valley: Spotlight on punk sound emerging from outside Ottawa

CBC Ottawa’s Creator Network is a place where young digital storytellers from diverse backgrounds can produce original video content to air on CBC and tell stories through their own lens.

Get in touch to pitch your idea, or check out our other Creator Network stories at cbc.ca/creatornetworkott.

Hockey. Fiddle music. And trucks.

For Orrin Alexander, it seemed like that’s all anyone in the Ottawa Valley cared about — at least when he was growing up in the tiny community of Beachburg, near Pembroke, Ont.

In fact, he says the area’s lack of “creative endeavours” prompted him and many of his friends to leave after graduating

Two Columbia Filmmakers Triumph with Sundance Award Wins
Filmmaking

Two Columbia Filmmakers Triumph with Sundance Award Wins

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Original: December 21, 2023

The Sundance Film Festival, a beacon of cinematic innovation, has unveiled its official 2024 lineup, featuring an array of Columbia filmmakers. The Festival will host screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance Mountain Resort from January 18-28, 2024.

Established by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute in 1981, Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the US and focuses on introducing innovative work worldwide. This year, an impressive array of Columbia-affiliated films will screen in a variety of categories, showcasing the talents and accomplishments of  alumni and faculty alike.

Notably, Celine Song ’14, an alumna

Aroostook filmmaker’s 40-year search for Swedish relatives comes full circle
Filmmaking

Aroostook filmmaker’s 40-year search for Swedish relatives comes full circle

MADAWASKA LAKE, Maine — Brenda Nasberg Jepson’s family has deep roots in both Maine and Sweden, but she might never have explored her ancestral homeland were it not for her career in filmmaking.

Jepson’s latest documentary, currently titled “Swedish Adventure,” is in post-production and will premiere on Maine Public later in 2024, more than 40 years after her first film set in Sweden. This time, her return to the country also marked the first time her husband, Alan Jepson, a New Sweden native, traced his family’s story back home.

For Brenda Jepson, now 67, the new film brings full circle a journey

Sundance Film Festival Programmer on the State of Indie Filmmaking, Hollywood, and His 2024 Favorites
Filmmaking

Sundance Film Festival Programmer on the State of Indie Filmmaking, Hollywood, and His 2024 Favorites

Sundance, the world’s largest independent film festival, is celebrating its 40th edition this year, and there’s a lot to reflect on. Over the past four decades, everything from Clerks to Little Miss Sunshine to Get Out have premiered on at the Park City, Utah, and this year boasts some starry entries too.

There’s Freaky Tales, starring Pedro Pascal and from Captain Marvel directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck; two Kristen Stewart films in Love Lies Bleeding (read IGN’s review here) and Love Me; Richard Linklater’s Netflix film Hit Man: Steven Soderbergh’s latest,

QC high-school students pursue filmmaking dreams
Filmmaking

QC high-school students pursue filmmaking dreams

A dedicated group of Davenport Central students has dreams of becoming the next Greta Gerwig or Martin Scorsese.

They are getting a leg up in potential film or TV careers through the free programs of Rock Island-based Fresh Films.

Fresh Films founders and directors Estlin (left) and Kelli Feigley, at the new company headquarters, 428 19th St., Rock Island (photo by Jonathan Turner).

The national company has been in the Quad Cities since 2016, engaging local

The Best Indie Movie of Every Year in the 2000s
Independent Films

The Best Indie Movie of Every Year in the 2000s

Independent films are an essential counterpoint to the big studio system within cinema. Unbound by the need to focus on topical themes, indie cinema has offered up beautiful movies that sit outside the mainstream creative trends. At the same time, they also bring attention to talented up-and-coming filmmakers and actors looking to break out with roles outside of the mainstream Hollywood studio system. Indie films today have come to denote a genre of their own and now have somewhat become a marketing tool rather than the original definition of films made outside of the studio system.

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Australian Chamber Orchestra Names Emerging Artists for 2024
Emerging Musicians

Australian Chamber Orchestra Names Emerging Artists for 2024

Seven young string players will receive mentoring from ACO players and appear in the ACO Collective ensemble

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has recently named the seven young string players who will take part in the group’s Emerging Artist Program for 2024. As part of the year-long program, these players will receive one-to-one mentorship from ACO players, as well as take part in several side-by-side professional performance opportunities.

In particular, they will appear in the ACO Collective, a string orchestra comprised of a mixture of Emerging Artists and ACO players. Led by Helena Rathbone, the ensemble will undertake a significant amount

Indie filmmakers at Sundance contend for buyers
Independent Films

Indie filmmakers at Sundance contend for buyers

The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, ends this Sunday. It is a marketplace for independent film, with moviemakers trying to find buyers. This year, they’re pitching a movie industry that’s still reeling from two major strikes and is working to find its footing in the wake of the pandemic.

Josh Braun has nine documentaries premiering at Sundance this year. He runs Submarine, a sales, production and distribution company.

He says last year the appetite for docs at the festival was kind of muted, but this year, “the marketplace is starting to get a pulse.”

“You just don’t know