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My friend, Elle Schneider works for this company and is probably behind this fabulous idea. Support your women in filmmaking! The gender bias in filmmaking is embarrassing (as is the racial one) . Props to Digital Bolex for taking a step to do something about it!
Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers Now Receiving Applications Reprinted from Indiewire By Inkoo Kang Cinematography is one of the film industry's least equal fields. In the last five years, women accounted for just 3% of all cinematographers among the 250 top-grossing films. In what might be the only current effort from a film tech company to address gender disparity behind the camera by offering female-specific grants, the Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers is now accepting applications. To read the full story, click HERE. To go directly to the Digital Bolex grant page, click HERE.
Canon and Samy's Camera Present The Filmmakers Alliance Seminar Series:
Demystifying Camera Technology
with Alex Buono
Saturday, October 18th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Canon Hollywood Professional Technology And Support Center 6060 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028 YOU MUST RSVP HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-camera-technology-tickets-13272421169 Noted cinematographer/lecturer Alex Buono (SNL, Bigger Stronger Faster) presents a seminar geared toward a general, non-technical filmmaker audience to help us better understand how to make the right camera choice for our projects and best utilize the technologies available to us. Subjects covered include: • bit depth • color subsampling • compression codecs • dynamic range • dual-pixel focus assist • image sensors & debayering • 4K versus 2K • 4K workflow If you're terrified by or ignorant (or both) of any of these terms, this is the seminar for you. All of the info will be presented to you in a way even your grandmother can understand (assuming your grandmother is not the former Larry, now Lana, Wachowski). Give yourself the gift of deeper insight into arguably the single most important tool in succcessfully developing and executing your film's visual strategy. The day's schedule: 11:00 a.m. - Doors open (networking, refreshments) 12:00-12:15 - An overview of Canon in cinema with Tim Smith 12:15-1:15 - Alex Buono Demystifies camera technology 1:15-1:30 - Q&A 1:30-2:00 - Networking, Wrap-up All attendies receive a $50 gift card from Samy's Camera to be disbursed at the end of the seminar. YOU MUST RSVP HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-camera-technology-tickets-13272421169 IMPORTANT NOTE: Attendance is free, but space MUST be reserved in advance!! In fact, due to LA's notorious RSVP attrition, we've intentionally opened up more seats than are available, so seating can ONLY be guaranteed to the first 75 who arrive - even if you RSVP'd. Parking is on street, but there should be plenty of it! See you all there!!
THIS MONTH’S COMPETITION: September's Filmmakers Alliance competition is dedicated to the American Film Market. Win An Executive Pass to AFM 2014! Here's what the pass gets you:
Access to Show Floor & Screenings
Tickets to the AFM Conference Series
Free Wi-Fi throughout the Loews Hotel
One year membership to AFM365™, the AFM's Online Community
Access to the AFM Filmmakers Lounge at Le Merigot Hotel
Access to the Industry Conversations Series (until full)
Invitation to an AFM Orientation with AFM Managing Director
Here's how you win: 1. Simply post a single-paragraph essay of why you MUST be at the AFM this year on the Facebook Competition Page. No longer than 100 words (but shorter is always better) - NO EXCEPTION. 2. Include the following hashtags #FilmmakersAlliance, #AFM in your post (does not count against your 100 words). 3. Generate likes for your post. 4. The top ten posts with the most likes by Midnight, October 10th, 2014, will then go to a judging committee and the best essay among them WINS!! Simple as that. So, the sooner you start, the better. NOTE: YOU MUST BE A BONA FIDE MEMBER OF THE FILMMAKERS ALLIANCE TO PARTICIPATE (Facebook "membership" does not count)! If you aren't a member yet, sign up HERE!
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
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