New distribution opportunities at home
Demand.Film launches in Canada The Australia-based company is looking to tap under-served audiences and under-used cinema space with its crowdsourced screenings. By [Read more...]
COMS on FILM
Endearing video of Frank Sanna's and Emily Pelstring's Communication Studies students at Concordia University (2014-15) learning to use the Bolex film camera (basically, filming themselves with rigour [Read more...]
Traditional Costume
Valentino Mannias and Roberta Lanave in traditional costume of Illorai. Day 5 of 5 of our shoot this summer in Sardinia on Go Ahead Turn. Special thanks to Denise Nieddu and Maria Rosa Betti for [Read more...]
Angel in Pink
What you see on the screen is always just the tiny tip of an enormous planning iceberg. I still find it amazing, how much work actually goes into getting a few simple shots "in the can." Alas, its the [Read more...]
In The Beginning
Back in 2011 when this project began, I was lucky enough to trip around with my dad (and some new friends!) while they were all there, back in the old country, on a government sponsored trip. If [Read more...]
Oh Ba! (Hey Dad)
Day 2 of our shoot in August '16 at Pont'Ezzu in Illorai. In the photo above, Bachisio helps Lorenzo with his lines in Sardinian. Pont'Ezzu means "old bridge" in Sardinian (in [Read more...]
Static?
Here we are at Capo Camino on the 3rd day of shooting in August 2016. Valentino Mannias improvises a modern workn' man's lament (that of the actor and film crew) sung in a traditional [Read more...]
Runaway
Making films is kind of like being on a runaway train. You have a destination, but getting there never really goes the way you planned. And so the real work becomes how to stay on course while (like [Read more...]
The Edifice on demand!
If you haven't yet seen it, my "digressive" 35mm film, The Edifice, is now playing at Vimeo on Demand. Julien and Claudia voyage through a mysterious landscape of city, nature, and industrial [Read more...]
Cinema Turbulent & Canadian Anthropology Society
The Edifice has been selected for presentation as part of the Cinema Turbulent Film Festival taking place May 8th to 11th at the University of Victoria in BC. Festival organizers SONOPTICA, based [Read more...]