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Mean Creek 2007-11-13 06:43:07 Released in 2004 and the winner of several awards including the Special Distinction Award for an ensemble cast at the Independent Spirit Awards, Mean Creek has become one of my most favorite independent films. Still to this day I find myself recommending it to others.
Mean Creek tells the story of a young boy named Sam who finds himself the target of a bully named George at school. Sam’s brother Rocky and a friend named Marty help devise a plan to exact a little revenge on the bully. They arrange a fake birthday party for Sam and invite George to come along. He happily accepts. Also joining the party are Millie (Sam’s friend) and Clyde, a friend of Sam’s brother.
The boys plan of revenge all seems to be going well until Millie, the only one who didn’t know about the plan learns of what’s going on and expresses her displeasure with it to Sam. Sam begins to have second thoughts and tells his brother he doesn’t want to go through with the plan. From tha
Darkon - Everyone wants to be a hero 2007-11-09 16:24:16 Using padded weapons and wearing authentic looking costumes, fantasy role-players in Baltimore, Maryland spend their weekends re-enacting medieval times as knights and grizzled warriors in their make believe world of Darkon.
Darkon is also the name of this award winning documentary which tells the tale of these weekend warriors. While those that participate may be ordinary and average folks, their game is anything but ordinary. Fighting in epic acted out and strategically planned battles, these ordinary people become heroes.
Darkon directors Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer spent three years on their project, “first gaining the trust and access they needed from their subjects, then tackling their ‘in-character’ fantasy world with the epic vocabulary we’ve come to expect from movies about Knights in Shining Armor.”
Darkon is a full-contact medieval fantasy wargaming group, active in the Baltimore/Washington area since 1985. Every other Sunday, between 150 and 300 mem Read more:wants
Resources for screenwriters - 11/08/07 2007-11-08 02:09:00 Since jumping into screenwriting a few years ago with my cousin Jonathan, I’ve found the internet to be an immensely useful tool in finding great information and resources to learn from along the way. I continue to seek out and learn from new resources often and so I thought I would occasionally post links to websites which I’ve found helpful and/or useful in one way or another along the way. If you have an interest in screenwriting, I hope you’ll find something here that helps make the learning process easier for you.
Screenwriting.info - I don’t think I’ve found a better site than this one so far. They teach you how to write a screenplay, how to format it and give some great advice on things you should and shouldn’t do.
Hollywood Lit Sales - Here’s a nice page with some useful writings tips and things you should keep in mind. They also talk about things you need to know after finishing your script. For example - should you find an agent?
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Cedar Rapids Film Festival now accepting entries 2007-11-28 01:18:58 If you’re a filmmaker from the state of Iowa or have a film with an Iowa connection and have an interest in entering your latest film into the CedarRapids
Film Festival
, the final deadline for entry is January 25, 2008. According to the festival website, the guidelines for entry are as follows:
All genres of film are accepted
No date of completion requirement
Films entered in previous Cedar Rapids festivals will not be eligible
“Your entry must have a connection to this great state, such as a key crew member or actor born, lived, educated or worked in Iowa; a story set in Iowa or about Iowans; or part or all of your film produced in Iowa.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2007
Contact: Eric Freese
Co-Director
Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival
(319) 721-7465
eric@crifm.org
2008 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival Announces Call for Entries
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (November 27, 2007) – Cedar Rapids Independent Filmmakers is now accepting entries statewide, nat
Big Bad Wolf - Review 2007-11-24 09:42:34 So last night my cousin Jonathan stopped by armed with a couple indie horror flicks. The first one we popped in was so unbelievably bad right from the start that we couldn’t even finish it. Determined to watch a movie though, we decided Big Bad
Wolf was going to have to be the one. It ended up being an hour and a half of our lives we can never reclaim.
Where do I start? I guess we’ll start with the acting first. Perhaps the only way it could have been any worse is if you could have visibly noticed the actors reading from cue cards. The timing in which lines were delivered was enough to make you groan, and groan we did. Of course considering the ridiculous dialogue, we can’t completely blame the actors. If it was the screenwriter’s attempt to purposely write an onslaught of horrid one-liners, he most definitely succeeded.
Probably the worst thing about Big Bad Wolf though was how predictable it was. As soon as we were introduced to one particularly grumpy charact
New Line to be absorbed by Warner Studios 2008-03-02 09:00:33 It’s hard to believe considering the huge success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but according to Variety it seems New Line Cinema will soon be folded into Warner
Bros. Studios
, effectively causing many who worked for the 40 year old company to lose their jobs.
No exact numbers have been divulged for how many [...]
Juno wins Oscar and Spirit Awards 2008-03-01 04:27:25 For a while this site has been asleep but it's about time I resurrect it and why not start off with what was certainly great news. Juno, easily one of the most loved films of the past year picked up a few trophies recently at the Oscar
s and the Independent Spirit Awards
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