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January 1998How I Did It: The Story of One Independent Filmmaker's ExperienceThu, 01/01/1998 - 01:00Posted in
By Memo Salazar
Some words of advice and caution from the Massachusetts independent filmmaker of Tragedy of Tonsil.When I was a kid, I didn't get to watch many movies. My parents, in their infinite wisdom, didn't care for them too much (all that sex and violence) and so I became the only kid on the block who hadn't seen Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club, or Dirty Dancing on the big screen. When I look back on that now, I'm actually thankful. So many filmmakers today are stuck inside the genre trappings they grew up with that they'll never be able to produce anything remotely read more... The Next Step: Taking it to the Independent Feature Film MarketThu, 01/01/1998 - 01:00
By Memo Salazar
All week filmmakers peddle their films the way grocers peddle their produce. The only difference, of course, is that the stakes are much higher, as is the tension and desperation...Having never attended this carnival of filmmaking, all I could rely on was second-hand information ("it's insane!") from previous attendees. In short: The IFFM is a yearly gathering of filmmakers and film buyers. It is not a festival; it is a market like any other, and filmmakers peddle their films all week the way grocers peddle their produce. The only difference, of course, is that the stakes are much higher, as is the tension and desperation. Throughout the week, filmmakers are free to pursue their goals in read more... Powderhouse Productions: Small Company, Big SuccessThu, 01/01/1998 - 01:00
By Mike McInnis
Learn how this Somerville, Massachusetts company has been able to produce programs that air on PBS and the Discovery Channel.Taking its name from the revolutionary war relic — the Somerville Powderhouse
— Powderhouse Productions was created in 1994 by industry
veterans Joel Olicker and Tug Yourgrau. Since then, they have produced documentary and
dramatic programming for broadcast, cable, corporate and institutional clients. Many of
their productions have aired nationally on PBS via WGBH in Boston, including
a special on South Africa, which was produced following their 1994 elections. read more... Good Will Hunting: A ReviewThu, 01/01/1998 - 01:00Posted in
By Kiersten Conner-Sax
This much acclaimed local film by famed director Gus Van Sant drew lines outside the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts even on New Year's Eve. What can you expect from this New England gem? Read and find out...To praise with faint damnation, the only things that annoyed me about Good Will Hunting were the occasional slips in Ben Affleck’s South Boston accent. Even Minnie Driver couldn’t find a means of irritating me. Friends told me it was a "feel good" movie, and the occasional television commercial inspired in me a dread of a possible Dead Poet’s Circle of Friends, or Chasing the Rainmaker, or something like that, though I suspected things were going to be all read more... Ruben and the ATMThu, 01/01/1998 - 01:00Posted in
By M.M. Goldstein
Former Cambridge/ Brookline resident reports from another world out with tales of a Producer named Ruben complete with Vuarnet shades, slicked back hair, Cuban cigar.Everybody in LA comes from someplace else, but some people come from places a lot
stranger than others, stranger even than LA, and Ruben Hostka is one of them. Now I’m
not talking Pacoima here, not even Palmdale, though that’s close since it’s also
in the desert; I’m talking Israel, right smack in the middle of the Middle East,
surrounded by the possibility of death in all directions. A place that makes even the
Bronx, where I come from, look good. read more... |
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