Sundance is over, the awards have been announced-Push won the Dramatic Prize and We Live in Public won for documentary. I saw neither. I had tickets to We Live in Public but I opted to watch Obama instead. I want
Sundance Film Festival-panels
Absolut Mango
More specifics about panels an films at Sundance in a later post, but I wanted to share some of the non-cinema highlights of the festival. Along Main Street in Park City many storefronts are taken over by sponsors- The New
Sundance Short Documentary Program
This post was lifted from an email I sent my Flashpoint Academy Documentary students after seeing the Short Doc. program yesterday. Hello From Sundance, I have been to six screenings so far and by far the best one was the
Sundance Film Festival
Hello from Park City, Utah. I am at the Sundance Film Festival with Flashpoint Academy Academic Dean Paula Froehle. It’s my first Sundance experience and so far it has been a lot of fun, very informative, and we even got
Got Film If You Want It
As Chair of the Film/Broadcast Department at Flashpoint Academy it has been a personal mission of mine to have our students shoot film. Typically we shoot HD, but this fall, thanks to Kodak, our advanced cinematography students shot some super
Studs
Studs died. Jesus wept. Hello again, it’s been awhile, give me a break I have been busy. I’ll give you a recap of life since September in another post, but first a few words about Studs Terkel. I met Studs
Peter Gabriel- Witness
When I met Peter Gabriel at the Womad Festival back in 2001 he rounded a corner wearing a loose windbreaker and was carrying a small video camera. We shook hands and the entire time he kept filming me. It was
The Suits
There was a really depressing article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal about how Warner Brothers- in part based on the success of the last two Batman films- is going to make fewer, more expensive films, and are going to mine
Even More Witch
Just a brief update. Team Flashpoint has been named one of three finalists in the Experimental Witch Project. A PAL HD version of the film has been shipped to Italy at their request. We will know more on August 24.
Isaac Hayes
I was all set to blog about Peter Gabriel when I learned about the death of Isaac Hayes. The Gabriel blog will come next, but in the interim a few words about Isaac Hayes. For my TV show Rainbow Soup,
