Filmmaking

Locals at the Academy Awards, a bevy of festivals, how Massachusetts can develop a successful future in show business, and a rare opportunity to have your film independently reviewed - news & happenings in the local industry for March 2010.

Filmmaker Danny Ledonne explores the controversial relationship between video games, violence, and the media in his documentary Playing Columbine, playing this month at the Boston Underground Film Festival.

What should you know about the prosumer camcorder market? An overview with a detailed chart of popular cameras with their features and purchase and rental costs.

Producer Erika Hampson talks about her Rhode Island roots and her recent producing work on several narrative and documentary films including the Academy Award-nominated short "The New Tenants."

Jared Gordon's latest Report from the Front: a screenwriter has to be ready for rewrites, edits, and revisions. But how far is too far?

Rhode Island filmmaker Sean Nightingale teams up with his six-year-old son Gus on an exploration of nature in the series Gus Outdoors. The first installment Gull Island, which screens this month as part of the first-ever Providence Children’s Film Festival, takes viewers to a seagull nesting location in Rhode Island to learn about how the birds hatch and survive.

Writer/director Andy Mitton discusses YELLOWBRICKROAD, a feature horror film en route to Slamdance.

Think the studio scene is DOA in New England? Don't pack your bags for Hollywood just yet. Here's a status report on each of the studios planned for the region.

"Everyone wants to direct," sure, but how does a director think? Here's a bit of advice on interpreting the theme of your story and offering direction to your actors.

Filmmaker Liz Canner takes on the "strange science of female pleasure" and how the pharmaceutical companies hope to capitalize on it in her documentary, Orgasm, Inc.

The Learning Lab Series at Rule/Boston Camera Film Rental provides a valuable and free resource for the local filmmaking community.

Filmmakers Bobby Scali and Ted Sherman unveil their short film featuring the talents of 40 local SAG actors.

Things go from bad to worse to worst to whatever is beyond worst in this dramatization of actual events.

Permits? Insurance? Do you really need them? Yes. Sort of.

Larry Nott - a man whose life goal is to be the best production assistant he can be.

The Vermont Film and Media Coalition's Dan Mazur fights to lure filmmakers to the Green Mountain State.

Massachusetts cinematographer Trace Douglas discusses director/cinematographer relations.

Chase Bailey and a crew of New Hampshire filmmakers weigh the pros and cons of using RED to shoot the short film Crooked Lane, which premieres this month at the New Hampshire Film Festival.

From Vietnam to the United States, and from stunt coordinator to writer/director, Leo Kei Angelos charts how he has made it so far so fast.

In a two-part article, NewEnglandFilm.com learns more about two film programs that place global ecology under a Maine microscope. Both screen in early October at the Camden International Film Festival.

Mary Godfrey discusses her documentary, "Dumping Billy: The Story of the Crow Land Landfill," which screens this month at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival.

In a two-part article, NewEnglandFilm.com learns more about two film programs that place global ecology under a Maine microscope. Both screen in early October at the Camden International Film Festival.

Wellesley, MA native Nick Godfrey, of Crossborders, discusses the grind of getting a foot in the new media production door and the impact viral video can have on young people’s political behavior.

Documentarian Aviva Kempner shines a light on the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of in her film "Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg."

In Scarred Justice, documentarians Judy Richardson and Bestor Cram expose and examine the 1968 Orangeburg massacre, one of the overlooked corners of the Civil Rights Movement.

Investigative reporter Beth Healy discusses how her background in print journalism helped prepare her to make her first documentary film, To Have and To Hold.

In his feature film debut, Alec Helm spins a local tale of nostalgia and growing up in Waterville, Maine. The Kings premieres this month at the Maine International Film Festival.

Filmmaker Rebecca Alvin explores the hidden lives and dreams of today’s nuns in Women of Faith, which screens this month at the MFA, Boston and the Woods Hole Film Festival.

Mike Sullivan distills what makes the Quay brothers worth watching, and worthy recipients of the 2009 Coolidge Award, even if it is hard to tell them apart.

Two area filmmakers reveal that the closets of your actors and friends combined with recycled wear from cheap vintage shops can satisfy your costume needs -- even on the tightest budget!