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What if Oscars were given to movie websites?

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

It´s no big news that movies heavily rely on the internet for marketing, i´d say it´s the most important marketing instrument by far.

Facebook, Twitter and Co have become a basic instrument, but what about movie websites?

Really well designed movie websites are nothing new either, but there are some examples that underline the theme so well and are by far more than just a website about a movie – they carry the world and theme of a movie a lot further and serve as an extension and not just merely present some information.

Smashing Magazine compiled a great list of movie websites. Not a list exactly, they tried to answer the question “What if Oscars were given to movie websites”.

It´s a great showcase of incredibly well designed websites, read the full article here.

Movies about Human Trafficking

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Since we’ll be shooting A Place Of Peace in December this year, we did some research on two levels.

I got involved into this matter since my last short movie Greener Pastures in 2006, during ongoing screenings for school classes or discussions and the book Joana researched for with the authors.

I had some discussions with Joana about real stories of human trafficking – the different personalities of victims and how they deal with what happens to them, their environment, the madames, the whole system behind Human Trafficking, hard facts, numbers and statistics, etc.

So while writing the screenplay i already gathered quite a solid background on Human Trafficking – but knowing the hard facts and real stories, or convey the emotions without boring exposition, insterts or dull dialogue with a movie is a whole different thing.

As screenplay author and director of this movie i had to do another kind of research – how would others deal with this matter? I had to watch movies about Human Trafficking.
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A Place Of Peace

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

While in the last time it has been a little quiet around my short movie project, but Joana and myself have been very busy working on it.

We solved major story issues, fleshed out the different characters and killed stereotypes, reconstructured the plot and – finally – found a name for our short movie: A Place Of Peace.

Due to some scheduling conflicts we moved the shooting date a month back into December this year, so we´ve got some more time for the pre-production.
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Geo-Racism

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

In the past i´ve already complained a lot about location based restrictions for viewing videos outside the US, unfortunately nothing has changed.

In my opinion the current situation more and more evolves into a loose-loose-loose situation between the audience, the filmmakers and the studios & film distributors, let me explain why.
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On Directing: The Wrestler

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I thought i´d start the new year with an really interesting movie: The Wrestler. Aside from my high expectations i won´t really talk about the movie itself, to be more concrete, i won´t really talk very much at all – others have done it already.

Peter from /Film had several interviewing sessions with Darren Aronofsky where he talks about the creation of The Wrestler, from beginning to end.

It´s not only interesting if you like the movie or wait for it´s cinema release, especially for aspiring directors it´s really nice to hear how Darren pulled of that movie.

But before i´ll post the links to the interviews i think the trailer would be a nice gimmick:

And here are all the five parts of the interview with Darren Aronofsky:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

And finally, because i wouldn´t know where to put it else, here are some videos of a round table The Hollywood Reporter held with six of this year’s Best Director hopefuls: Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Gus Van Sant (Milk), Ed Zwick (Definace), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino).
Too bad Christopher Nolan is missing, but two of my absolute favourite directors (Eastwood and Aronofsky) took part:
A Discussion with The Best Directors of 2008

Well, that´s it with my “Happy new year” post…