*** Notice: For the protection of property rights, this catalog is available for online browsing only. Please drop us a line if you would like to receive a copiable version of this catalog. Thank You!


Content

Filmmaking


Filmmaking



HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - CINEMATOGRAPHER: DOCUMENTARY, COMEDY & NEWS - CUONG LENGUYEN

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

CUONG LENGUYEN, Cinematographer/Producer/Director for Arlington Public School in Virginia for which he co-produced and edited the series, Claro! English for Parents, a program geared toward parents for whom English is a second language. LeNguyen is Senior Motion Graphics Designer at Home Front Communications in Washington, DC creating commercials, PSAs and high-end videos for a wide range of commercial, non-profit, and government organizations (Animal Planet, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - CINEMATOGRAPHER: DOCUMENTARY, COMEDY & NEWS - TOM KAUFMAN

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

TOM KAUFMAN, cinematographer for NOVA Series and Fahrenheit 9/11. He has worked for National Geographic, Discovery Channels, British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH, WNET and Academy Award-winners Mark Jonathan Harris, Charles Guggenheim and Barbara Koppel. Kaufman has twice won the Gordon Parks Award for Cinematography and an Emmy for the 1994 documentary about deaf children, See What I'm Saying?.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - SCRIPTWRITER FOR FILM: JAMIE NASH

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

Jamie Nash, scriptwriter for films including Lovely Molly, ParaAbnormal, Seventh Moon and Altered. Covering all aspects of the filmmaking process, this program is designed to enlighten students and take them through all the steps to Make It in Film. From the roles of scriptwriters they'll discover the secrets of screenwriting and what it takes to Make It in the business.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - SCRIPTWRITER FOR FILM: LYN VAUS

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

Lyn Vaus, screenwriter, is best known for his award winning Miramax romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland. Vaus began his career as a story editor for a production company in Hollywood and also served as scriptwriter and Director for the film, Siegfried and Roy. Covering all aspects of the filmmaking process, this program is designed to enlighten students and take them through all the steps to Make It in Film. From the roles of scriptwriters they'll discover the secrets of screenwriting and what it takes to Make It in the business.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - SCRIPTWRITER FOR FILM: RICHARD SQUIRES

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

Richard Squires is an up and coming filmmaker whose recent credits include writer/director of Crazy Like a Fox, a story of a Virginia farmer's struggles with betrayal and how he chooses to deal with it. The films stars include Emmy award-winning actor Roger Rees and Academy award nominee Mary McDonnell. Covering all aspects of the filmmaking process, this program is designed to enlighten students and take them through all the steps to Make It in Film. From the roles of scriptwriters they'll discover the secrets of screenwriting and what it takes to Make It in the business.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - SCRIPTWRITER FOR FILM: RON MAXWELL

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

As an actor, writer, producer, and director, Ron F. Maxwell has a wealth of filmmaking experience. His titles include Little Darlings, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, and Emmy award- winning Verna: USO Girl. Silver Award, Davey International Award honoring creative excellence. Covering all aspects of the filmmaking process, this program is designed to enlighten students and take them through all the steps to Make It in Film. From the roles of scriptwriters they'll discover the secrets of screenwriting and what it takes to Make It in the business.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


STUDIO EEN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM THE LOWLANDS

a collection of 12 films from the Dutch film cooperative Studio Een

In 1990, as a student, Karel Doing decided to create Studio een. Many artistic, avant-garde, underground movements and counterculture movements seemed to be over. The rise of video and its academic use began to compete with Super8. To work against the decline of the Super 8 format and techniques, Karel Doing and two of his friends (Saskia Fransen and Djana Mileta) from the art school in Arnham, started to think about creating a new space and promoting the invention of DIY techniques for filming and processing Super8 films.

In this particular context, Studio een was launched. Conceived as a actual workspace, Karel Doing, Djana Mileta and Saskia Fransen, began by establishing it within a large network of festivals, galleries and other workspaces. They bought optical printers from a professional laboratory that was set to shut down and started to learn by themselves, out of necessity, how to process film. It wasn't long before Studio een became well-known in DIY film circles and began to host various artists who come to meet each other, not only to exchange ideas and work together on the use of Super8 or 16mm, but also to experiment with diverse narrative and sound forms. Some members, Joost Rekveld for example, chose to pursue a career as a musician as well as a filmmaker.

After 7 years in Arnhem, Studio een moved to Rotterdam where it continued to thrive. It became a model for many artists in creating their own laboratories, research centers and studios dedicated to experimental cinema.

Studio een no longer exists, but the laboratory itself continues in Rotterdam under the name of Filmwerkplaats by being involved in new experimentations in filmic creation while promoting the works of members and invited artists.

This DVD edition includes works of various Dutch artists who had a main role in the early years of Studio een, from 1992 to 1996.


DVD / 2016 / 114 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: ANIMATION

This program looks at animation, a style of filmmaking that gained popularity during the silent era of the 1920s and has remained extremely popular from the 1930s to the present day. Animation still remains a labor-intensive and time-intensive process as the artists and crafts people behind contemporary animated programming are still essentially applying the same processes as the early animation pioneers, holds and cycles and synchronization. This program includes two practical animated tutorials as well as some classical animation from the early 1900s.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cinematography looks at what a camera operator is responsible for and how they make the decisions to create the look the director desires. This segment will focus on cinematography, or camera work and how this tool helps in the creation of the story. The role of the camera operator, or cinematographer, can be highly artistic while simultaneously requiring significant scientific and technical knowledge to be performed well. From the birth of motion pictures in the 1890s to the talkies of the late 1920s, cinematography was of paramount importance to successful narrative, since in the absence of dialogue to record, footsteps or closing doors to anticipate, or music to incorporate, the camera could capture the moving image only. In the first decade of motion pictures, the role of the cinematographer or camera operator and director were one and the same, but as cinema evolved, the duties of the director and cinematographer diverged. In this program we review Academy Award winner, James Wong Howe, who pioneered dollying and handheld camera techniques as well as the use of unconventional light sources. We take a look at his 1938 film Algiers, which earned Howe his first Academy nomination for Best Cinematography, focusing on the moving camerawork.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Todays program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction or narrative films that we as audience members are used to seeing, that is, documentary filmmaking. With the birth of cinema in the 1890s, spearheaded by America's Thomas Edison and Frances Louis and Auguste Lumiere, filmmaking progressed in two directions. Edison brought his subjects before a stationary camera to his tarpaper-covered studio called the Black Maria built at West Orange, New Jersey partly because the camera required multiple people to move it. While Edison was bringing people to the Black Maria to have a pie, the Lumiere brothers created the cinematographe. The resulting camera mobility allowed people to go out into the world and both document events and project films. Included are a number of clips from classic documentary films. Features the 1934 documentary Song of Ceylon, 1935 British film Housing Problems, the 1936 film The Plow that Broke the Plainsand, 1938's film The River, 'Why We Fight' and the 1944 film, The Battle of San Pietro.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: EARLY CINEMA

This program looks at the very birth of cinema in the late 1800s through the talkies in 1928. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements and people who created the magic that we call motion pictures. The dawn of the moving image began early in the 19th century with the discovery that a surface treated with a photo-sensitive emulsion would reveal an image when exposed to light. These first photos, or tintypes, were crude forms of photography improved upon by the creation of more flexible photo-sensitive material, or film, which resulted in better still photographic images. Photographic images whose subjects were photographed in slightly different positions could be flipped in rapid succession to create the illusion of subjects in motion. George Eastman, of Eastman-Kodak fame, created a celluloid film stock that could be wound on a reel, resulting in the first actual example of moving images on film. Experiments in the 1890s by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise, under the auspices of the Thomas Edison Company, resulted in the invention of the Kinetograph, a vertical feed camera which exposed film and had a row of sprockets on each side of the celluloid strip, much like our conventional 35 mm film today. Featured are early films from Thomas Edison, The Lumiere Brothers and George Melies.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: EDITING

This program focus on editing and how this process helps tell the story in a motion picture. The editing process follows some simple steps: takes the raw footage from the camera after it is developed, select the shots and combines them into sequences which will themselves be combined to create an entire motion picture. Completing these steps sounds easy enough, but in reality, editing a film extends beyond arranging shots into a completed project. Deciding which shots to use and their length requires creativity and discernment. Editing is sometimes described as an invisible art, because if the editor performs their job well, the audience, never notice the cuts. We are simply engaged in the story. Editing discusses how a film is cut to create the story we see on the screen. This program features a long take, from the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac, Establishing shot, from the 1937 film A Star is Born, A point of view shot, when the camera replaces the eye of the character and we see exactly what the character sees - the opening of Naked Kiss from 1964 and cutting on action, from John Houston's 1954 film Beat the Devil.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: GENRE

Film genre, or the classification of film into categories is based upon designated characteristics that distinguish one film from another. Genre explores what characteristics indicate a film genre like horror, musical, Western and comedy and how viewers understand the story put before them. They remain a useful way to categorize and distinguish most films, so that audiences know what to expect. Most film critics agree on ten film genres: action-adventure, comedy, costume films, epics, horror, musical, science fiction and fantasy, suspense, war, and the western. This program discusses the following films and the genre of each - Angel and the Badman, The Road to Bali, Royal Wedding, My Man Godfrey and The Big Combo.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. In this program we go global, or look at global cinema. While American cinema has had a wide-spread influence on world popular cultures almost from the beginning, many other nations have had significant national film traditions that have also had an influence. But, rather than provide a panoramic view of each national cinema, we are going to concentrate on some of the most influential world film movements and filmmakers since the beginning of cinema. Includes some of the major foreign film movements, such as Italian Neo-Realism and French New Wave. Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves - Jeffrey Hill is an associate professor at Morehead State University, Department of Communication, Media and Leadership Studies. Dr. Mark Graves is an associate professor of English.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: LIGHTING

This program focus on lighting and how a cinematographer and lighting engineer work together to showcase what is put before the camera. Lighting is a crucial component to filmmaking because it enables the director to say, Look here, not there, or to light up an entire scene so we can peruse what's in the film's frame. Without light we are left with this 'LIGHTS OFF' nothing. We need light to see the film and we need lighting engineers to handle and control the lighting so the director can attain the look they want. Quite often what makes an average production exceptional is the lighting. This program discusses what tools are used to create different lighting set-ups and uses a number of examples to illustrate how this important element is decided. Lighting design falls into two categories, High-Key lighting and Low-Key lighting. High-Key lighting provides relatively bright, even illumination of the film frame or scene, the kind the director and producer of a big-scale musical productions may choose to showcase 60 dancers and 20 chorus singers and their elaborate costumes. Low-key lighting is focused lighting with strong contrast. Low-key lighting creates fast fall-off, which means that the image goes from light to dark very quickly, falling off into shadows or darkness. Low-key lighting works well in horror films, or any film in which a director wishes to create suspense or keep you guessing what is in the dark, inky shadows on the outskirts of the frame. This program discusses the following films and the lighting of each Royal Wedding (musical) the scene is brightly lit throughout in both, wide and medium shots. Night of the Living Dead (horror) to enhance the suspense, the lighting creates shadows which heighten the mystery. Flying Deuces (comedy) like a musical, relies on a high-key lighting set-up, eliminating almost all shadows.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: MISE-EN-SCENE

Mise-en-scene looks at how filmmakers make decisions about what is put before the camera. It includes costumes, props, set design, positioning of actors and much more. Mise en scene is a term that refers to all visual elements that appear within each frame of a motion picture. Without various features of mise en scene, a moving picture would consist of only a series of flickering black or light-infused frames, since even a colored screen would provide visual information that some might consider an element of mise en scene. A French phrase which translates roughly as placed on stage, Mise-en-scene is a broad concept often difficult to define for film because it only exists when considering a combination of elements within the frame or camera's eye. Basically, anything to be filmed the setting, the costumes and make-up, the movement, facial expression, and position of actors on screen, and some elements of lighting is considered mise en scene. The concept of mise en scene for film shares a lot with theater production in that props, sets and blocking of actors are all deliberately chosen for particular effects, although the physical space of the stage and theater often limit or dictate how mise en scene is perceived by an audience. Features the Western, Angel and the Badman, silent film, Caligari, costuming Cyrano de Bergerac and lighting (an air of mystery) Film Noir.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: SOUND

Sound investigates the various types of sound, how they are recorded, and how they are incorporated in a film. Besides the visuals in moving pictures, sound also contributes to part of those magical effects. This program will focus on sound design and how life can be breathed into a project through the use of carefully selected and carefully placed sounds. When we think about or talk about them, we can categorize all sounds into one of three categories: dialogue or voice, music, and sound effects. Sound effects can be sounds that occur naturally within the film itself or sounds that add to the overall impact that the film presents. Music is quite often not part of the film itself, but a musical track that adds to the mood of the film. Both music and sound effects are usually classified as either diegetic or non-diegetic sounds. Simply put, non-diegetic sounds are those which do not occur within the film, while diegetic sounds occur inside of the film's action. This program features diegetic and non-diegetic music in the 1950 film D-O-A Atmospheric sound known as foleying in Meet John Doe and manufactured sound elements (suspenseful mood music, a ray gun emission, the whirling of flying spaceships) in the 1953 Killers From Outer Space.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: THE DIRECTING PROCESS

This program discuss three big jobs in motion picture making; screenwriting, producing and directing. The director is responsible for the overall feel and look of the film and decides on the use all of the other process of movie making - lighting, editing, mise en scene, cinematography and sound which ultimately reflect the directors control and vision. Explore films from major directors of cinema and learn how a script is formatted. Includes the opening scene from the Howard Hawks film His Girl Friday, Stanley Donen, the 1951 musical Royal Wedding, Vincente Minnelli, comedy film Fathers Little Dividend, Frank Capra, 1941 film, Meet John Doe, John Huston, 1953 film Beat The Devil and Michael Gordons 1950 film, Cyrano De Bergerac. Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves - Jeffrey Hill is an associate professor at Morehead State University, Department of Communication, Media and Leadership Studies. Dr. Mark Graves is an associate professor of English.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA

The Golden Age of Hollywood motion picture making was a period of almost 30 years, beginning in 1928 and ending in the mid-1950s. This program focuses on the classical Hollywood era of the 1930s through the 1950s. The hosts discuss and present clips from some of the films which made this era of Hollywood so memorable including the musical Dixiana, the western (Fighting Caravans), A Star is Born, The Vampire Bat, The Little Princess (Shirley Temple), Father's Little Dividend with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 10: CHRISTOPHE KARABACHE

A documentary on the Lebanese experimental filmmaker Christophe Karabache by Frederique Devaux and Michel Armager.

Christophe Karabache is an independent French-Lebanese filmmaker born in Beirut in 1979. In 2000, he began exploring various film formats at l'Etna, an alternative workshop in Paris. He shifts between documentary and fiction formats, bringing to mind the wounds of Lebanese society, displaced beings, the fragmentation of identity. Pulsating scenes and jolting cuts demonstrate his desire to destroy cliches. The shock of the imagery in his feature-length films, made after 2010, bears witness to a penetrating critical eye on Lebanon's cultural shifts and the rupture of meaning.


DVD (French, With English, French Subtitles) / 2012 / 74 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


VIDEOMAKER: ADVANCED LIGHTING FOR VIDEO

This program gives you tips on setting up a studio, how to cleverly light products, how to light car interiors, ways to get over the challenge of lighting at night, and how to hide your fixtures when shooting a wide shot. Using this knowledge, you should be able to light scenes that look as good as those in the movies! Lighting controls the way we see the world. It can also cause the difference between a great looking image and a mediocre one. Teaches: Setting up a Studio, Studio Lighting, Product Lighting, Lighting Car Interiors, Lighting Night Scenes, Lighting Wide Shots.

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 31minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


ART OF FILMMAKING, THE

This box set features the following 5 documentaries about the art of filmmaking:

Tales From the Script
Screenwriters ranging from newcomers to living legends share their triumphs and hardships in this probing, insightful, and often hilarious odyssey through the world of movie storytelling. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in Hollywood.

FEATURING: Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), David Hayter (X-Men), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Paul Schrader (Raging Bull & Taxi Driver), Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), David S. Ward (The Sting) and many more.

Directors: Life Behind the Camera
Made in cooperation with the American Film Institute, this 4 hour interactive film features thirty-three legendary directors who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking and, as well, their own career in the movies.

FEATURING: Robert Altman, Robert Benton, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Chris Columbus, Wes Craven, Cameron Crowe, Frank Darabont, Jonathan Demme, Richard Donner, Clint Eastwood, Nora Ephron, William Friedkin, Terry Gilliam, Ron Howard, Lawrence Kasdan, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, George Lucas, David Lynch, Adrian Lyne, Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bryan Singer, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Robert Zemeckis & David Zucker.

Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
From cinema-verite pioneer Albert Maysles to mavericks like Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre in this comprehensive film. Including interviews with 38 directors and film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, this one-of-a-kind film explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films.

FEATURING: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill, Patricio Guzman, Werner Herzog, Scott Hicks, Heddy Honigmann, Kim Longinotto, Kevin Macdonald, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Laura Poitras, and many more.

Light Keeps Me Company
Twice an Oscar Winner and considered one of the foremost cinematographers of all time, Sven Nykvist shot some of the most important films in the history of cinema. Lovingly directed by his son, included are clips from his work, rare home movies, family photographs, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with the legends who worked with him.

FEATURING: Woody Allen, Richard Attenborough, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Stellan Skarsgard, Vittorio Storaro, Liv Ullmann, Vilmos Zsigmond, and others.

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film
From Go Fish to Paris is Burning, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors. These talented movie-makers enlighten and entertain as they discuss topics including how they got their start, inspirations, filmmaking techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and breaking out of the "gay ghetto."

FEATURING: Cheryl Dunye, Su Friedrich, Jennie Livingston, Heather MacDonald, Maria Maggenti, Monika Treut, and Rose Troche.


6 DVDs / 2009 / 574 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY

Director: Pepita Ferrari

From cinema-verite pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre in this comprehensive and eye-opening two-disc box set.

Featuring interviews with 38 directors and 163 film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, as well as recent work like Darwin's Nightmare and Touching the Void, Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?


DVD-R / 2009 / 98 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING: TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES

Ideal for Students of Film & Video to expose students earlier in their communications courses to documentary filmmaking.

This program is a chance to hear from emerging and seasoned filmmakers as they discuss technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film. Thirty filmmakers discuss the art and craft of documentary filmmaking covering everything from finding a story, starting the process, shooting, editing and considering legal and ethical issues to tackling financial and distribution challenges.

Hear directly from Academy Award winners and nominees, first time filmmakers and 50-year veterans as they offer tips from the trenches of filmmaking in brief, modular interview sequences perfect for the classroom.

This program was created in an interactive platform, allowing professors to use it for classes on many different levels beyond communications, to study the social significance of film or how film is an agent for social change. Additionally it can be used as an educational tool for seasoned and aspiring filmmakers as a way to foster idea sharing among professionals.

Features interviews with more than 20 filmmakers, including Richard Berge, Nick Dobb, D.A. Pennebaker and Michael Skolnik.

Subjects Covered Include:

Introduction to Documentary Film
(What is a Documentary, Why Documentary Matters, Why they make films, A Student of Film),
The Story
(Finding Good Stories, Finding Good People, Story into Film, First Person Perspective),
Shooting & Editing
(Sound & Picture, Editing, Screening your Rough Cut),
Legal Issues
(Releases & Clearances, Fair Use, Music),
Ethics
(General Ethics, Specific Ethics),
Financial & Distribution
(Getting Your Film Made, Getting Your Film Out There).


DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 83 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


TALES FROM THE SCRIPT

Director: Peter Hanson

Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the book of the same name published by IT Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers available in stores January 26, 2010.


DVD / 2009 / 105 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


MAKING IT IN HOLLYWOOD - THE DIRECTORS: SUCCESSFUL TEAMWORK IN FILMMAKING - FROM HOLLYWOOD'S BEST DIRECTORS

This program looks at the art of writing a movie or choosing a script, the care and feeding of actors, how to work successfully with each actor, why your cinematographer is your best friend and a look ahead to the future of the industry.

DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 47 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


LIGHT KEEPS ME COMPANY

Director: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist

Twice an Oscar Winner and considered one of the foremost cinematographers in the history of film, Sven Nykvist is best known for his work with Ingmar Bergman, with whom he created some of the most important films of modern cinema.

Despite a tumultuous personal life that included the tragic suicide of his oldest son and a sweeping love affair with Mia Farrow, Nykvist continued to collaborate on projects with filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Roman Polanski and many others. In 1998 he was diagnosed with Aphasia, an affliction that would end his career.

Lovingly directed by his son Carl-Gustaf, Light Keeps Me Company includes film clips, rare home movies, family photographs, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with some of the legends who've worked with him, including Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Liv Ullman, Susan Sarandon, and many others.


DVD / 2000 / 76 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


LAVENDER LIMELIGHT: LESBIANS IN FILM

Director: Marc Mauceri

From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film goes behind the scenes to reveal America's most successful lesbian directors. These talented movie-makers enlighten and entertain as they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and of course, love and sex, on screen and off. The conversations are intimate, the topics unlimited, and the clips from their work enthralling.

Featuring: Cheryl Dunye, Rose Troche, Jennie Livingston, Monika Treut, Maria Maggenti, Su Friedrich & Heather MacDonald


DVD / 1997 / 57 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 1-4: MARTINE ROUSSET, NICOLAS REY, VIVIAN OSTROVSKY & PIP CHODOROV

A documentary film by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger about 4 experimental filmmakers: Martine Rousset, Nicolas Rey, Vivian Ostrovsky & Pip Chodorov.

The strength of contemporary experimental cinema has encouraged us to meet and to film the most active filmmakers, distributors, movers and shakers in this art form. This developed into a number of autonomous portraits, forming a series demonstrating the plurality of approaches and practices in experimental film. Our independent productions introduce or complement the work of the artists, technicians, distributors and programmers who participate in the life of contemporary art cinema.

Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger have been making experimental films and documentaries since 1980. Frederique Devaux is film critic and professor. Michel Amarger is a journalist, specializing in cinema, for Radio France International.

This DVD is a collection of the first four Cinexperimentaux titles by Devaux and Armager


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 168 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 5: ROSE LOWDER

A documentary by Frederique Devaux & Michel Amarger on the filmmaker Rose Lowder. Includes 12 films by Lowder.

Rose Lowder is an artisan of cinema. Her 16mm camera takes the place of a loom for the weaving of images. She has consecrated her life to these tapestries, these embroideries whose motifs have for many years come from nature, in a state of incessant becoming. Like her elders, the Impressionist painters, she renders her bouquets stroke by stroke, image by image, color after color, to give life to her pointillist compositions in motion.

2002, 24min. Followed by 12 films by Rose Lowder : CHAMP PROVENCAL 1979, 16mm, color, 9' VOILIERS ET COQUELICOTS : 2001, 16mm, color, 2' BOUQUETS ECOLOGIQUES #21 a 30 : 2003-2005, 16mm, color


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 50 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 6: MARCEL HANOUN

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+2 films by Marcel Hanoun

Marcel Hanoun, one of the most innovative of filmmakers, gives us what he names "a lesson in cinema." Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger filmed this piece at his country house, composing an abundantly rich portrait. Film clips and sparks of theoretic bravura testify to the feverish creativity and the drunken agitation behind which lurks the ever-composed voice of the filmmaker.


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 150 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 7: STEPHANE MARTI

A documentary film by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+ 3 films by Stephane Marti

Stephane Marti is a teacher and film-maker who, since 1976, has been expounding the plasticity of experimental cinema, freeing it from the dominant codes of narrative cinema. An avid defender of Super-8mm film (which he has been using for 30 years), he has fought for the acknowledgement of its excellence as a film-making tool. His work, which screens in festivals and at international events, has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles. Flamboyant, baroque and sensual, his work revolves primarily around the question of the body and the sacred.

+ 3 films by Stephane Marti
Allegoria 1979 Super8 14min
Diasparagmos 1980 Super8 13min
Mira Corpora 2004 Super8 45min


DVD (French, With English, French Subtitles) / 98 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 8: COOPERATIVE LIGHT CONE

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger with 4 bonus films.

Light Cone is an experimental film distribution cooperative, founded in Paris in 1982. This film covers different moments of its existence, showing its spirit, practice and daily routines, thus shedding light on one aspect of the french experimental cinema community.

The strength of contemporary experimental cinema has encouraged us to meet and to film the most active filmmakers, distributors, movers and shakers in this art form. This developed into a number of autonomous portraits, forming a series demonstrating the plurality of approaches and practices in experimental film. Our independent productions introduce or complement the work of the artists, technicians, distributors and programmers who participate in the life of contemporary art cinema.

Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger have been making experimental films and documentaries since 1980. Frederique Devaux is film critic and professor. Michel Amarger is a journalist, specializing in cinema, for Radio France International.

Cinexperimentaux #8: Cooperative Light Cone
2002-2008, 22min by Devaux & Amarger.
+
Germaine Dulac Arabesque 1929, 6min2
Robert Breer Eyewash 1959, 2min10
Gill Eatherley Hand Grenade 1971, 5min15
Metamkine ACIDFILMDA 1992, 5min25


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 54 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


CINEXPERIMENTAUX 9: STEPHEN DWOSKIN

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+2 films by Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where he settled and participated in the founding of the London Filmmaker's Co-op. His experimental films, for which he himself does the camera work, play with ideas of desire, sexual and mental solitude and the passage of time. In his films he also explores representation in cinema, performances, personal impressions and his own physical handicap which has been a source of inspiration for him throughout his career. His sensitive and emancipating works have been the subject of various international presentations.


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 114 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<


EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 16mm 15min
At Land 1944 16mm 16min
Ritual in Transfigured Time 1945-1946 16mm 16min


DVD / 47 minutes

[Go top]

>>> Add Cart <<<

***Price on web-site may not be current and is subject to modification by quotation***



Email :
inquiry@learningemall.com

Websites :
http://www.learningemall.com [ English ]
http://www.learningemall.com.hk [ Chinese ]

Follow us: facebook twitter linkedin linkedin