By Paul | Published:
March 26, 2010
Attending a film festival is exhausting. You race around town to screenings and stand in lines throughout the day. Then at night you run around town to parties, sometimes several of them.
I’m not about to complain. Leading a life in film is an immense privilege and I try to remind myself of it all the [...]
By Paul | Published:
October 26, 2009
The United States of America
I’ve been looking over Ted Hope’s blog lately and one thing he keeps returning to is the idea that in order for cinema to be truly free (i.e., liberated), we have to do our part to help film culture. I agree.
That’s part of what this blog has always been about. One [...]
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By Paul | Published:
September 29, 2009
As far as boxing writing goes, it’s not quite Ring Lardner, but Karina Longworth’s “Uwe Boll and Tim League Fix The Falling Sky With Physical Violence” is still worth a read.
Also posted in Off-topic |
By Paul | Published:
September 18, 2009
Rooftop Films today announced the four recipients of their 2009 Filmmakers’ Fund Short Film Grants. It gives me a lot of pleasure to spread the word about this because, in addition to being someone whose career benefitted greatly from a short film grant, I happen know two of the recipients.
Recipients and summaries of the [...]
Also posted in Grants, Production |
By Paul | Published:
August 6, 2009
I am in New Orleans at the University Film & Video Association conference. Today I moderated a panel on Self-Reliant Filmmaking. There was a good crowd and, as often happens with these things, the discussion just scraped the tip of the iceberg.
The panelists were:
Paul Harrill, Virginia Tech. Moderator.
Sasha Waters, University of Iowa.
Jennifer Proctor, Grand Valley [...]
