Depending on who you talk to, and how much of the Kool-Aid they’ve been drinking, Canon’s new breed of hybrid HD-video/stills cameras are either a revolutionary product or just another interesting tool in the filmmaker’s kit.
But one thing you can’t really argue is Canon’s commitment to fostering creativity both through these tools, and through interesting programs like “Story Beyond The Still,” which asks filmmakers to tell individual chapters in a larger story. Judging from the quality of the first winning entry, “Job Security”, it should be one hell of a cinematic ride.
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People talk about filmmaking in just about every corner of the interwebz, including this one.
But only a handful are places that actually encourage filmmakers to make films, while giving them the structure of a film festival within which to create. The one that seems to do it better than any other is DVXUser.com.
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Last night, Severin Films and the Alamo Drafthouse brought the much-hyped BIRDEMIC: Shock and Terror to Austin. With all the buzz surrounding it, I wanted to get some insight from writer/producer/director James Nguyen.
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