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Read More »by Eugene HernandezShannon Treusch, Janice Roland, Gary Hill, and Steve Beeman are leavingClein + White Public Relations to join Jeff Hill who left the company twoweeks ago, according to an article by Thom Geier in today's HollywoodReporter. The former C+W team will form a new public relations andmarketing firm according to the Hollywood trade, confirming rumors thatspread throughout the New York indie community last week.A year ago, with the Sundance Film Festival approaching and indie PRcompanies competing to sign Park City bound clients, two key members of theDDA staff (Mark Urman and Jennifer Morgerman) left the company to joinLions Gate ...
Read More »Picture -- Drama:"Elizabeth," "Gods and Monsters," "The Horse Whisperer," "Saving Private Ryan," "The Truman Show."
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Read More »by Liz MerminJonathan Judge founded The Reel School a year ago to teach aspiringfilmmakers what most production courses don't: the practical realitiesof independent filmmaking. The harshest realities were likely to befound in this fall's "Deconstructing the Documentary" course, which metover five consecutive Wednesdays this fall at the Filmmaker'sCollaborative.By the end of the course, it seemed like the last thing any documentaryfilmmaker in their right mind would want to do is deconstruct thedocumentary filmmaking process. The truth is just too depressing. "Wedon't want it to be a bitch session," says Judge. "We all know it'shard." Fortu...
Read More »by Kevin DreyfussThe International Film Financing Conference (IFFCON) recently announcedthe 60 projects and filmmakers selected to participate in their sixthannual forum for independent films in development, IFFCON '99, runningfrom January 15-17 in San Francisco. Selected filmmakers from NorthAmerica will have the opportunity to attend seminars, private meetings,special receptions and screenings alongside top internationalexecutives, buyers and financiers, all with the objective of gettingtheir films through the thicket of international financing, productionand distribution.The conference's in-development offerings will include Sasha Bogunov...
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