Filmmaker Resources

Screen insurance: risky business

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The box jellyfish is one of the world’s deadliest creatures. With tentacles up to three metres long and venom that attacks the skin, the heart and the nervous system, swimmers that are unlucky enough to be stung often never make it back to the shore. Drowned after going into shock, or dead of heart failure.

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Making an Independent Film: Advice from Sundance and Oscars Experts

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We talked to one of the founders of Sundance and an Academy Award-nominated producer about digital filmmaking. Ever since filmmaking began co-starring with technology, it hasn’t followed the Hollywood formula, but that doesn’t mean there can’t still be a Hollywood ending. Producer Jeff Mandel began his film career “on the early side” of the digital

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Israel Offers Incentives to Lure Filmmaking to Jerusalem

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Israel is pushing for more authenticity in Hollywood films. Because of the country’s volatile political environment, movies which feature Jesus’ crucifixion are often filmed in Italy while Morocco takes place for the Holy Land. But now, Israeli officials are dangling better tax breaks, terror attack insurance and credits of up to $400,000 to try and

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Pregnancy clause: Film frat divided on the issue

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Mumbai: The stalling of Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine after it became known that lead actress Aishwarya Rai was expecting has stoked a debate on introducing a pregnancy clause in film contracts. Some feel it should be there, while others like Sushmita Sen and Ram Gopal Varma oppose it. Aishwarya’s pregnancy came as a big blow to

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Filmmakers Face Grim Reality of Slashed Tax Incentives

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Executives at Saturday’s Produced By Conference urge producers to be cautious when committing to making a movie in anyplace that offers incentives. Only a year ago the race among states and countries to lure film and TV productions was picking up steam, with one locale after another offering tax incentives and rebates. Then the economic

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Two-day market event targeted at American independents and European buyers

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GOTHAM IN PROGRESS, a two-day market event targeted at American independents and European buyers will take place in the scope of American Film Festival in Wrocław, in the south-west Poland, in November. An initiative by New York and Paris based Black Rabbit Film is co-organized by New Horizons Association (organizer of the AFF, and the

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