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Shipping Container Home Project – Part 3

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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Shipping Container Home Project – Part 3

Well, it’s official. There are two teams playing the game of container home building. There are the “Get Rich”s and there are the “Get Free”s. I mentioned in my first container home post I felt there was a hovering aura that some are trying to figure out a way to make money from container homes. [...]

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Useful Tools For Independent Filmmakers

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Becoming a filmmaker is a big step that requires you to use and have access to many resources in order to not only make the best films you can but to handle all tasks not related to a specific film project. There is a lot more to making films than just the movies themselves. I [...]

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New Short Flim

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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I’m taking a break from working on my two documentaries to make a new short film. I was going to film a short called Old Wounds but I’ve had to re-evaluate the project. I spent all last night going over the script and determining what would be needed to film the movie. Ultimately now isn’t [...]

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Predatory Filmmaking: A Reflection

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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When I filmed my first documentary it was on pure impulse. It wasn’t until I’d finished filming that I understood one thing. I felt a deep appreciation for those who participated in my film. They didn’t know me from a can of beans, yet they agreed to share the intimate details of their lives with [...]

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Movie Review: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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This film is one of those fucked up movies like Birth, The Professional, Bastard out of Carolina, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and anything with Dakota Fanning in it that seems to have been made by pedophiles. A Summary: A 13 year old girl (Jodie Foster, who looked 10 at the time but was actually 14), [...]

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Movie Review: Sister My Sister

Saturday, October 18, 2008

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Sister My Sister is a very disturbing film based on the true story of French sisters, Christine and Lea Papin, who murdered their employer’s wife and daughter in 1933. You can read about them here and here. However, I will review this movie for what it is… a movie. Now, on to the film. First [...]

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The Fun Begins: Editing My Docs

Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Well I started really editing one of my docs this weekend. Boy, do I have a lot of work to do. hahaha Well I got 8 hours of footage down to a little less than 6 hours. Now all I have to do is get it down to less than 2 hours. Whoa! Tomorrow I’ll [...]

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Guerrilla Filmmaking – A Pep talk

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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One of the reasons I wanted to write a post about Guerrilla filmmaking is to help you put things into perspective when you are thinking about how to make films and what your goals are for making films. It is my thought that you have to really decide why you want to make films. For me, it [...]

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The Making of Two Docs

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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I’d like to take a moment to talk about how I made these two documentaries; “Our Side of Joy” and “Charise: A Portrait of an African American with Albinism”. I’ve gotten some e-mails asking about equipment and process, etc. Equipment for these two films: This was obviously something I spent days and days planning because [...]

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Working on Trailer for “Charise: A Portrait…”

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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Well I’ve started work on the first trailer for “Charise: A Portrait of an African American with Albinism” and all I can say is “WOW”. There is just so much to cover. It will be interesting to see the final product of both films for general audiences. I imagine I will have to cut a [...]

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