BitTorrent as Fast As Possible

How does P2P file sharing like BitTorrent work, and is it as bad as everyone makes it out to be?Read More



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500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes

Take a whirlwind tour of art history in this video that covers 500 years of feminine depictions. A total list of paintings here.Read More



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A Quick Tip on Follow Focusing

Clinton Harn offers filmmakers and content producers quick tips and tricks for getting the best results when out in the field.Read More



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Screen Junkies Best Simpsons Episodes

The Simpsons has been on for 25 seasons – but which episodes are the best of all time?! We gathered some superfans to narrow down the Best. Episodes. Ever.Read More



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How to Eat Sushi: You’ve Been Doing it Wrong

Coming to you straight from the sushi chef’s mouth, Munchies presents the dos and don’ts of eating sushi, as taught by Tokyo’s Naomichi Yasuda. Be warned: You’ve been doing it wrong.Read More



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Inside a Video Game Voice Over Studio

Take a peak inside the recording studio where the voice over is recorded for Defense Grid 2 Jennifer Hale asks a few questions about the character. That’s less than 30 seconds after she walks in the room. Her arrival prompts the usual bit of Hollywood hug and kiss, and some hello-how-are-yous, but then it’s down Read MoreRead More



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How to Setup a Video Studio

Caleb Pike goes through the gear he uses for recording his podcast videos Check out his page for links to the gear used.Read More



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Stray Links 8/25-8/28: David Fincher’s Gap Ads and Kazakhstani Cowboys

Behind the scenes of David Fincher’s new Gap ad campaign, the logistics of growing the beef industry in Kazakhstan, a look at illegal logging in Indonesia and more in this week’s links round-up: • Yesterday the Gap released four new ads directed by David Fincher. Mashable’s Todd Wasserman has the videos and quotes from Gap Global CMO Seth Farbman on Fincher’s typically exacting work process. One spot had the actors running 50 to 60 times up a set of stairs (the audition included ten minutes of running). Fincher lived up to his end of the bargain by creating “a new […]

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Somebody: Miranda July’s Messaging Service

Remember We Think Alone? Miranda July’s investigatory aggregate into the emails of famous people? July is again re-examining how people communicate in the age of information with a new app/messaging service entitled Somebody. Some sort of sick combination of texting and Tinder, Somebody ensures human contact upon receiving a message because that message is not your own — it belongs to someone nearby, and you are tasked with delivering it. To promote the project, Miu Miu commissioned a short from July that premiered today at the Venice Film Festival. In the supplement, a varied cast of characters (including July herself) […]

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Sir Ben Kingsley on the Boxtrolls DP/30

You might not expect to run into one of the finest performances of four-time Oscar nominee Ben Kingsley in an animated film, but Archibald Snatcher is one of the extraordinary surprises of The Boxtrolls. Sir Ben spoke to David Poland about the film, how he found this unexpected voice, and how he approaches his workRead More



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What is a tweet worth? | PBS Idea Channel

By now, EVERYONE knows about the Ice Bucket Challenge (unless you’ve somehow avoided contact with the internet for the past month). While it has been incredibly successful in terms of dollars raised, lots of the videos fail to mention donations, and many people question the value of the campaign. Are these videos “slacktivism”, helping only Read MoreRead More



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Easy Ways to Ensure You’re Getting Your Shot in Focus

If getting things in focus is your ultimate goal – here are 5 ways to ensure everything in frame will be in focus. #1- Zoom in before recording Might sound simple enough but I still train people who aren’t aware that you can digitally zoom in (x5 and x10) and check your focus before you Read MoreRead More



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Understanding the Color Managed Workflow

The task of printing has always been part art and part science. Let Jeff Lazell walk you throughout the ins and outs of printing in the color managed world. Jeff was the post-production manager at New York City’s premiere wedding and event photography studio and an expert on color management with almost a decade in Read MoreRead More



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7 Things You Didn’t Know (Yet!) about Guardians of the Galaxy!

The Guardians of the Galaxy: everyone’s favorite superhero team, since July of this year. In honor of how much we freakin’ love that movie, we’ve compiled some things you (and we) didn’t know about the Guardians of the Galaxy.Read More



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ARRI AMIRA To Do 4K, New GoPro Tutorials, and a New 50mm Cine Lens from Samyang

In a move that says a lot about the unrelenting pressure to move to 4K, ARRI has announced that they will release a 4K UHD upgrade for the AMIRA by the end of the year. This upgrade will provide in-camera recording of 3840 x 2160 UHD video at up to 60 fps to CFast cards in ProRes, as well as live uncompressed UHD output through 6G-SDI. For the past year, ARRI has been discouraging the move to 4K, stressing that image quality is more important than the total resolution of the image, and with this announcement they continue this message: […]

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Watch: David Lynch Takes the Ice Bucket Challenge

David Lynch’s broad sense of humor has always been a bit of an acquired taste, especially when he’s the one on-screen delivering it (recall all those deafness/earhorn jokes in Twin Peaks). This minute-ish video gets the much-discussed ice bucket challenge right, as Lynch is drenched by two buckets — one with coffee added to it for Laura Dern, one straight-up for Justin Theroux — while giving a game stab at playing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on his trumpet. It ends (spoiler alert?) with a good punchline, as Lynch nominates Vladimir Putin to step up and take the challenge next. No […]

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Submitting to Sundance: Two Festival Programmers Share Their Insight

Lisa Ogdie and Kim Yutani discuss the selection process at Sundance. Last week, Sundance Film Festival programmers Lisa Ogdie and Kim Yutani stopped by Film Independent to do a Q&A with our members, offering insight into the selection process as well as helpful hints for filmmakers submitting their work. The deadlines for Sundance 2015 are Read MoreRead More



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Christopher Nolan on “Following” – Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection

Always interested in crime and justice, Christopher Nolan’s first film (a whole seven years before he made Batman Begins) is a curious black and white head-scratcher about a writer who, obsessed with following people, subsequently gets caught up in a life of crime. In this interview, Nolan explains his key to success and ends up Read MoreRead More



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Best/Worst-Marketed Films Of Summer 2014

Scott Mendelson picks the best and worst marketed films of the summer. The Best: Godzilla (Time Warner, Inc.) Warner Bros. tricked the entire entertainment industry into thinking that one of the biggest monsters in cinematic history was a box office underdog. Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla revamp actually sold fewer tickets in America and overseas than the Read MoreRead More



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Unedited Behind the Scenes footage from “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For”

Check out these unedited behind the scenes b-roll footage from Robert Rodriguez’s follow up: Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForRead More



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Watch: Gina Telaroli on Smaller Cinema as an Extracurricular

Ricky D’Ambrose consistently runs some of the most revealing, worthwhile video interviews over at MUBI Notebook, and his latest is no exception. This go around, Ambrose converses with Gina Telaroli, one of our brand new 25 New Faces, about her process, the “classic Hollywood system,” and the potential drawbacks of having your hand in too many of the industry’s depleted honeypots. Most significant are Telaroli’s opening remarks: “I think there’s really a lot of people who still have this idea, either filmmakers or film writers, that they will be the person that somehow makes it, that somehow is the genius. […]

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Kickstarter: How to Disappear Completely in 28 Days

Filmmaker regularly offers crowdfunding filmmakers on our curated Kickstarter page the opportunity to write a guest essay about their campaign. Here’s Sasha Solodukhina on the struggles of funding a first-time work, How to Disappear Completely. To learn more about her 30-minute film, visit its Kickstarter page, where the campaign is in its final three days. Unlike Spike Lee, or Charlie Kaufman, or The Coolest Cooler, even unlike the potato salad – I am not yet a product. I have no brand to articulate me, or any kind of large body of work to stand behind. At this point, you have […]

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Top 10 Improvised Scenes in Movie History

While we appreciate a good script, some of the greatest moments in movies come from when talented actors are given the leeway to go off-book. Here are 10 of the greatest scenes born of improvisation in movie history.Read More



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The 20 Best Non-Fiction Films on Netflix Instant

Netflix’s ever-shifting catalog is subject to sudden deletions and additions, the latter skewed far more to recent fare than a balanced sampling of all film history. Still, careful mining reveals a decent selection of titles to catch up on if you’re one of the company’s 35 million+ U.S. subscribers, including some relatively slept-on films. I cleared away the underwhelming underbrush to find (in alphabetical order) a semi-idiosyncratic selection of the 20 best non-fiction films available for current streaming on Instant. The Act of Killing (2012) Joshua Oppenheimer’s elegantly disturbing investigation into the determinedly suppressed legacy of Indonesia’s 1965-66 mass killings […]

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Writer Shelly Kraicer Calls for Festival Solidarity over Beijing Independent Film Festival Shutdown

You may have read over the weekend about the Chinese government shutting down the Beijing Independent Film Festival. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened: the Associated Press’ Didi Tang has a solid overview of this year’s events and past context here. As writer/critic/curator Shelley Kraicer pointed out on Twitter, the shutdown also included a raid on the Li Xianting Film Fund, the festival host which “has (had?) likely the most comprehensive collection of independent Chinese films.” Kraicer is calling on festivals to co-sign and post a statement calling on “the relevant Chinese authorities to permit the […]

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Watch: Richard Attenborough on Satyajit Ray

Here’s a video from a less-explored part of the late Richard Attenborough’s career. In 1977, Attenborough went to India to take a supporting part in the great Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players. In this rare fragment from a TV interview at the time, Attenborough marvels at the all-encompassing nature of Ray’s craft: “He writes the screenplay, he composes the music, he directs it, he operates the camera. He half-lights the set. Certainly he works with the lighting cameraman in such detail that any source of light or change that he wants he gets. He edits his own films, almost as […]

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Are Too Many People Calling Themselves Storytellers?

Award-winning designer Stefan Sagmeister blasts the current co-option of the label “storyteller” in this provocative video. If you’re a novelist or filmmaker then, yes, Sagmeister says, you are a storyteller. But if you’re, for example, a roller coaster designer, then, he says, “No, fuckhead, you are not a storyteller!” Sagmeister’s absolutist stance has angered quite a few — check out the video’s comments thread. From my point of view, storytelling is as much a practice as job title. I think it’s possible to apply an understanding and embrace of narrative in multiple fields, not just writing and film. And if […]

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