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...
The fact that Disney/LucasArts is in the process of making an offer to an Indie writer/director that I love to continue the main Star Wars saga is almost unprecedented! The news that Rian Johnson would replace JJ Abrams for Star Wars VIII, which we’re just hearing today, is the biggest leap we’ve seen from Disney to date. (The fact that Johnson’s IMDB page has been updated with these facts...)
Friends of Microfilmmaker Magazine. The last month has been a bit crazy with some transition stuff we've been up to over here. As such, you haven't seen new content on our core site. The good news is that we are now transitioned to our new hosting home and are very happy. WE think this is going to be a great place for our magazine to...
As MicroFilmmaker's emphasis continues to evolve with the technology and the creative options available to low-budget content creators, it became clear that we needed to explore one of the more overlooked emphases for many multimedia creators: still photography. Whether you need a killer poster to advertise your film, a cover that makes people want to buy your next app, source imagery for use within your next multimedia comic book, or an amazingly detailed storyboard for your DP, the art of still photography is unbelievably necessary...
At the beginning of the year, I was challenged by one of our readers to update my commentary on the 2012 state of the industry in a new editorial that was fitting for 2014. Although this should have been a pretty simple thing for someone like me to do, I found that I spent the first three months of this year trying to really wrap my head around everything that’s been going on that’s been intriguing me, confusing me, and leave me feeling strangely more excited about the future than I have been in awhile.