A Filmmaker's Life: January 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012

Last Minute Sundance Space still available!.....

Private bedroom for first half (Jan. 19th - 24th) - $800

Semi-Private loft space for first half (Jan. 19th - 24th)- $700

Unit is in nice location with great peeps.

Email me IMMEDIATELY: jacques@filmmakersalliance.com

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Sunday Night Get-Together in Culver City

Hey All!

If you're in LA Sunday night (Jan. 15th), join us for a combo celebration - a belated New Year's gathering, FA meet/greet, Sundance kick-off party and my homecoming back to LA toast at Backstage Bar and Grill at 7 p.m.

Hope to see ya there!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Still Got Space Available for Sundance....

Hey All,

We still have a couple of spaces available for Sundance. Both are in a great location with parking, wifi, etc. And awesome condo mates.

One is a queen fold-out in the Living Room of a big condo unit at Snowcrest Condos (near Park Ave. and Deer Valley Dr.). No day rate. It's $300 for the first or second half of the fest (or any part thereof) and $500 for the whole fest.

The other unit is at Park Plaza (near Sundance HQ) and offers a private bedroom for the First or Second half. No day rate. It's $800 for the first half (19th to the 24th - or any part thereof) and $600 for the second half (24th to the 28th - or any part thereof). The second half does NOT include Saturday night.

Contact me directly - jacques@filmmakersalliance.com - if you're interested or know somebody looking. And feel free to pass this along.

See ya in Park City!!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Sundance Condo Space Available

Hey All!

I've got a nice two-bedroom condo on Empire (near the bottom of Park, close to everything!) with two bathrooms with some space available! Main perk is that you'll be sharing the room with at least one and probably two awesome peeps who are Sundance veterans!! Here's what we got:

Private bedroom - Tues. Jan. 24th to Sun. Jan. 29th - $150 a night for the room with a two-person maximum (potentially higher if you don't book entire time)

Fold out couch in living room - Thurs. Jan. 19 to Sun. Jan 29th (entire length of Sundance) - $75 a night for the couch with a two-person maximum (potentially higher if you don't book entire time)

If it isn't right for you, please feel free to pass on to anyone you know.

Thanks!

CineThoughts

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't. - Jean-Luc Godard

To have a life as a filmmaker, you must continue to make films. Like filmmaking, being a filmmaker is a process. It demands education, experience and exposure.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things, but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. - John Cassavetes

Good is the enemy of great. Look beyond praise to the truth of what you're creating.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Be a true filmmaker, a true creative being. Not a merchant. Make films from and for your soul.

Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. - Lina Wertmuller

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. - Krzysztof Kieslowski

"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space." - Michelangelo Antonioni

I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others…for me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength. - Yasujiro Ozu