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Episode 40

When filmmaker Arin Crumley started looking for money to finance his startup OpenIndie, he turned to crowdfunding site www.kickstarter.com. Arin tells us a little about why he is starting OpenIndie as well as what it is and how it will benefit all independent filmmakers.
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Episode 39

We talk with author and director Jon Reiss about his new book “Think Outside the Box Office” as well as his experiences making, marketing, and distributing his documentary “Bomb It!”. We also take a moment to address some new legislation proposed by the FTC targeting both bloggers and Twitter-ers who receive freebies in exchange [...]
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Episode 38

We interview the co-founder of www.indiegogo.com, the premier crowdfunding site on the internet, Slava Rubin. We also talk the Conan/Leno scandal as well as make note of the new studio decision to oust Sam Raimi from the Spider-Man franchise.
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Episode 37

We do an international interview with New Breed director Ben Hicks from an alleyway in Tokyo, Japan.
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House

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“House” directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi is a film which makes one glad simply because of how inventive it is – even if it’s not great. Never have so many cinematic techniques been crammed into one small film: still montages, wipes, irises, superimposition, distortion, black and white; the list is seemingly endless. It not only uses [...]

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The White Ribbon

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“The White Ribbon” is an incredible film that, if you have read reviews, is most definitely deserving of the resoundingly positive reviews its gotten. It is a film that knows there are never easy answers and trusts its audience to fill in blanks. Of course, this happens more often than not with foreign films but [...]

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Interview With Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton

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For the last of our Slamdance 2010 interviews we chat it up with directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton about their experience of submitting a rough cut of their film into one of the most prestigious American film festivals as well as how they acquired their eclectic cast (you’ll [...]

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Interview With Jeff Grace & Kevin Brennan

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We catch up with “The Scenesters” stars Kevin Brennan and Jeff Grace via phone during a rollicking a good time at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival and chat with them about the current happenings of their movie. The discussion includes how they were able to submit through WithOutABox [...]

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Body of Work

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“Body of Work” directed by Alex Bram is a short horror piece that is very reminiscent of episodes of the early 1990’s TV show “Tales From The Crypt”. From the opening titles to the parting shot, almost every part of this film feels like it was shot specifically for that late night TV audience. [...]

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Hive Mind

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If you like your movies as a cross between The Twilight Zone and “Wax: The Discovery of Television Among the Bees”, then you might enjoy a little piece of sci-fi called “Hive Mind”. Ladd Ehlinger Jr. spins a yarn about a world that has been assimilated into a collective consciousness after ingesting the world’s [...]

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Interview With Timothy Pfeffer

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We talk with the director of the short subject Slamdance pick “Mixtape”, Timothy Pfeffer. We discuss, among many other things, how you don’t actually have to know someone within the system to get your flick into this prestigious film festival. Timothy chats us up about how “Mixtape” [...]

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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

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“The Imaginarium of Dr. Panassus” is a vexing and perplexing film. It is most definitely imaginative. It’s most definitely Terry Gilliam; however, a lot of the positives that can be said about it end there as unfortunate as that is.
It is rare when simulacrum, in the form of real life events, can have a true [...]

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Official Rejection

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Filmmaker Scott Storm made a movie called “Ten ‘Till Noon”. When it was completed he did what every filmmaker does and started to take his movie around the festival circuit with dreams of becoming the next Cinderella story. He applied to and get rejected from big fests like Sundance and Slamdance, and that [...]

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The Lovely Bones

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Susie Salmon died when she was 14 years old at the hands of a neighbor. She would have noticed something different if she wasn’t like every other teenager—boy crazy. Unfortunately, she is a teenager. On her way home from school, she is brutally murdered. Her parents begin to get worried when she doesn’t come home. [...]

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Killing Kasztner

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The main objective of a documentary is to inform and illuminate subject and bring it to a larger public’s attention. More often than not the subjects of a film’s investigation will be one that is greatly unknown. It is generally in learning new things and in examining difficult questions that the best documentaries are made.
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The Maid

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A Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and not submitted for the Oscars “The Maid” is a title likely to slip through the cracks. This, however, would be sad as it is a film guided by the cool hand of second time feature director, Sebastián Silva.
The film begins with the camera staying in [...]

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