Kate Madison—a multi-talented British microfilmmaker—launched her production company, Actors at Work Productions, in 2003 with a multi-discipline approach to filmmaking. She was an actor before she became a director, producer and screenwriter, and she has often acted in her own productions, giving her needed experience both in front of and behind the camera. After the launch of her company...
My name is James G. Wall and I made the feature film, ‘The Truth About Romance’. The film was released on YouTube and in one year it has reached over half a million views. This is an incredible achievement, one that I never thought would happen, when you consider the film is 90 minutes long, has no star names, made by a guy nobody knows and has no marketing budget, why would anybody watch it?
Making an amazing film is not a prerequisite for getting noticed in the world of microbudget filmmaking. Benjamin Wick’s, Slide Down South, is one such film that deserves recognition because it succeeds where films with a Hollywood budget fail. It forces us not only to look introspectively at our own rash judgements, but also at societal perceptions of age, relationships, loneliness and love...
I met Ms. Avalon at the GenCon 2013 Film Festival. She was at the convention to support a couple of series and films being shown. We chatted, much too briefly, about some of her projects past and future. A number of her projects include songs that deliver a fast-paced comedic wit with a melodic rhythm Her short, “Baby Names” is one of my favorites (I can just imagine this conversation going on between couples all over the world). She agreed to talk to MFM and tell us a bit about her work.
So you have not had the benefit of rehearsal beyond what you might have gotten done in the auditions and callbacks; or what you worked out with the actor over dinner. You’re now standing on the set promptly at call time, 7:30 a.m. That’s your first mistake.
I really enjoyed the film festival this year. I have been attending for three years, and the festival just keeps growing and expanding. The number of events, the quality of the films and the variety just keeps getting better.