Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom
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Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom

In the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery one December night, a six-minute video projected onto one wall showed people on the Tibetan pilgrimage journey from small villages to religious sites in the city of Lhasa. The quiet and reflective piece, showing people walking and prostrating themselves across icy, unforgiving terrain, was created for the fall course Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions.

Tairan Hao, a second-year Master of Fine Arts student working in video installations and new media art, says he was inspired to create this piece by a visit to Tibet five years ago, when he saw a crowd

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is brilliant ensemble filmmaking
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is brilliant ensemble filmmaking

I’m typing this column up at my desk on the Monday morning after the 2024 Golden Globes, a week after the Music City Film Critics handed in our individual nominations, and the day our group of local cinema scribes announced our list of official 2023 movie nominations. Award season is well upon us and there were a number of solid movies in theaters this year. From May December to American Fiction to Godzilla Minus One, to box office blockbusters like last summer’s one-two punch of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Underrated gems (Napoleon) and overrated bores (The Holdovers) are a seasonal

State dedicates $500,000 to fund expansion in filmmaking – WSOC TV
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State dedicates $500,000 to fund expansion in filmmaking – WSOC TV

WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina is hoping to grow its blossoming film industry by training up more workers, thanks to a new grant approved by the General Assembly.

The Film Partnership of North Carolina is getting $500,000 in new funding, and it’s going to help “cultivate a diverse pipeline of interns.” The partnership is working on training up students for a variety of jobs in the film sector.

(CHECK IT OUT: Movies filmed in the Carolinas)

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Balancing family and filmmaking: Local actress Angelique Chase stars in Lifetime movie
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Balancing family and filmmaking: Local actress Angelique Chase stars in Lifetime movie

Angelique Chase is living her dream. She is happily married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and the two have an infant son, Malone. She also just completed her fourth film, which recently aired on the Lifetime Network. 

Chase, whose dad was in the Air Force, was born in Iceland and lived in England, North Dakota, and California, before moving to Stilson at the age of 12, when her father retired from the military. 

“We moved here when my dad retired because this is where my mom grew up,” Chase says. 

Chase and her husband graduated from Southeast Bulloch High School, and Chase went

Filmmaking in Spanish: Community-Based Learning in Action
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Filmmaking in Spanish: Community-Based Learning in Action

Bridget Franco, associate professor of Spanish, discusses her innovative class, Filmmaking in Spanish. Through a hands-on approach to the art of filmmaking, students learn how to produce a short documentary film in collaboration with an organization that serves the local Spanish-speaking community.

Throughout the project, students not only learn the artistic and technical terminology employed in Spanish and Latin American film production, they build important relationships with community partners.

“All of Us Strangers” Is a Romantic Fantasy About Filmmaking
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“All of Us Strangers” Is a Romantic Fantasy About Filmmaking

In the British director Andrew Haigh’s earlier films—“Weekend” (2011), “45 Years” (2015), and “Lean on Pete” (2017)—the images did much less of the work than the script and the actors. There has been something literal about his filmmaking that undercuts the intense emotion of the stories he films. His new movie, “All of Us Strangers,” is a little different and a lot better. The fact that it’s a kind of ghost story, a drama centered on fantasy, spurs Haigh to shoot in a way that conveys a distinctive, alternate realm of experience. Even if one

‘Tangerine,’ ‘Past Lives,’ and More – IndieWire
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‘Tangerine,’ ‘Past Lives,’ and More – IndieWire

Films are stunning artifacts of humanity’s singular ability to dream and wonder in unison. But if the moviemaking miracles produced by Hollywood’s studio system are predestined — recycled IP inevitabilities that cost as much money as there are stars in the sky — indies are something greater.

Indie filmmaking is notoriously hard to define; combine the constantly shifting number known as “low budget” and another shifty goalpost, “independent,” and we’re partly there. Here’s another definition: It feels as if it’s willed into existence, both in the final story on screen and in the behind-the-scenes journey that explains how an

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Local Filmmakers Screen Documentary at 4 Star Theater – Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon

By Asha Ingram

After decades of historical film he shot sat untouched in his basement, Richmond District resident Rev. Harry Chuck, with the help of his son filmmaker Josh Chuck, who lives in the Sunset District, is finally ready to show it to the world in the new documentary “Chinatown Rising” at the 4 Star Theater.

Harry and Josh’s documentary uses the reverend’s 16mm film and local TV station footage to showcase San Francisco Chinatown’s rich history and journey in overcoming oppression through a rise in activism and sense of community. 

The documentary also includes numerous interviews – including the reverend himself –

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Producers’ Nightmare: Navigating Continual Schedule Changes for Artist Call Sheets – TrackTollywood

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The most challenging role in any field and mainly the field of Filmmaking, is production. If the movie does well, nothing better. But if the movie does average numbers or even decent and the worst case, if the film is deemed a flop, then there are losses galore.

Ultimately, the producer bears the burden or the profit. The actors involved or the directors involved are usually pretty safe from the movie’s result.

In that case, when actors and directors are continuously changing their schedules, it is becoming a huge task