Last weekend I was sent out to shoot a quick V.O. (voice over) of the once-a-month vet clinic that veterinarians and vet students from the U .C. Davis Hospital of Veterinary Medicine provide for the...
Read More →Several months ago I was sent to cover Veg Fest, an all-vegetarian food & health event, for KCRA-3‘s weekend news. One of the people we interviewed there was Ilsa Hess, who was selling her all-vegan...
Read More →After Spartacus and Lolita, Stanley Kubrick had the clout to do anything he wanted. The Cold War was near to boiling in the early 1960s with the Berlin Wall going up, nuclear tests and missiles...
Read More →I first discovered Anthony Hontoir shortly after I’d purchased my Éclair Cameflex CM3 35mm movie camera last year. I was Googling for information on the camera and came across Anthony’s website downwoodfilms.com with images of...
Read More →It’s been a while since I’ve done a same day news story — as both photographer and reporter — so I’m very glad to resent this latest addition. Last weekend my Saturday was all mapped...
Read More →Every now and then a film organization reaches out to me to help spread the word about their film. This one sounds interesting. And it’s from a new website that’s geared to independent filmmakers. This...
Read More →Over the past few weeks, as I’ve been wrapping up the final tweaks and layouts for the newly revised Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000-$6,000 Or Less...
Read More →Stanley Kubrick made the astronomical leap from $900,000 art house war movie The Paths of Glory to $10 million Hollywood spectacle with Spartacus. Spartacus was made in the wake of Ben-Hur and the wave of...
Read More →When I first heard about the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit when it debuted in Melbourne, Australia, I saw photos of displays of Kubrick’s personal cameras and lenses. As a filmmaker and cameraman, this I was chomping...
Read More →At the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, understandably, there isn’t too much for his early years. He was still borrowing and renting gear so, for the most part, all...
Read More →Stanley Kubrick: Beyond The Infinite Fifty years after Stanley Kubrick packed his bags and left Los Angeles for good, migrating to Great Britain to begin a reinvention of filmmaking that forever changed Cinema and what...
Read More →Terrence Malick’s new film To The Wonder was released today in select theaters across the U.S., but more significantly, on Video On Demand (VOD) so that you don’t have to wait three or four months...
Read More →Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 – $6,000 – or Less. Revised & Expanded For DSLR Filmmakers is now available as a Kindle Edition. You can...
Read More →Carl Olson invited me to be his guest on the most recent show of the Digital Convergence Podcast for Episode 115: The Age of the Indie with his co-hosts Chris Fenwick of chrisfenwick.com and Planet...
Read More →“I calculated that I could make a feature film for about $10,000. By projecting about the amount of film I’d shoot, figuring that I could get actors to work for practically nothing. You know, at...
Read More →This is the kind of reader response that authors dream of and kill for! I was looking for the DVD of an obscure British movie on the Amazon UK site and, as an afterthought, I...
Read More →In my book Naked Filmmaking (both the first edition and the newly revised edition now out on Amazon) I stress the value of trying out ideas for a movie in a “Concept Film.” When starting...
Read More →It’s almost exactly three years to the day since the publication of my first book Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less. And last night I...
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