Tweeting & Crowdfunding Success: Ed Burns Explains How He Used these new Technologies (Interview)

Ed Burns (Sundance 2013)

Sheri Candler interviews Writer/Director Edward Burns discusses the value of using Twitter to connect with his fans and collaborate with them on his projects…to a point. His next project, Winter Spring Summer Fall, is now in production with a Kickstarter campaign…

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Bringing ‘Weed to the Dance: Shaka King at the 2013 Sundance Festival (Interview)

Shaka King (Photo by Paris Whittingham)

Sheri Candler interviews director Shaka King during Sundance 2013. King’s film, Newlyweeds, was included in the NEXT category for ultra low budget films and secured distribution through Phase 4 Films. King discusses the value of film labs like those from the IFP, making short films, and using Kickstarter to successfully fund the film’s…

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Interview with Director J.R. Hughto at Diamond on Vinyl premiere, Slamdance 2013 (Interview)

JR Hughto Interview

Director J.R. Hughto discusses his entry into filmmaking from being a photographer and graphic novelist starting with making short films, his new microbudget feature Diamond on Vinyl, and how he views the sacrifices filmmakers have to make in order to work within…

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Sundance Video Interview with mumblecore director, Andrew Bujalski (Interview)

Andrew Bujalski Interview

Director Andrew Bujalski on the red carpet for the premiere of Computer Chess at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. He is one of the leading figures of micro-budget filmmaking known as mumblecore. Bujalski used a 1969 Sony AVC-3260 tube video camera to give the film its period feel (and to show that video definitely doesn’t look like film!). Computer Chess centers around a weekend computer chess tournament in the early 1980s at the dawning of the age of personal computers and well before technology was in the palm of our hands…

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