Category Archives: filmmakers

YouTube introspective

Written by Kasia. Posted on May 29, 2010. No comments.
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Remember LonelyGirl15? YouTube’s 5th birthday was last week and I’ve finally gotten around to watching the “YouTube Stories” series they produced– 2 minute interviews with select creators about their successes with the medium. The stories, and this interview with the director, contain interesting little insights about creating for YouTube that are worth checking out– What kinds [...]

Academic Project: Hollywood Oral History Project

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on April 25, 2010. No comments.
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Media Decoder has the details of this USC project, trying to capture as many stories of the old days while they still can: The new archive is designed to compile interviews with producers, agents, lawyers, executives and journalists who were involved with entertainment in an off-screen sort of way. I’m a little skeptical of the need for [...]

LOOSWORLD Presents… Noseferocktu

Written by Brandon. Posted on April 13, 2010. No comments.
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It’s actually happening… believe it.  Urgent Content famlay, Looseworld is putting on a pretty uniquely sick event in NYC.  They asked filmmakers to submit their work, and paired them with musicians to score the films and perform live.  Should be a fun event, with the Street Carnage dudes hosting, and apparently Das Racist performing?  Hmmm.  [...]

Melina Matsoukas: Too Hard to Handle

Written by Nina. Posted on April 9, 2010. No comments.
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What do Beyonce, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, and Ludacris have in common? Melina Matsoukas. Not only has she directed some of the most original music videos of all time (see = Rihanna “Hard”), but she also represents in the mainstream market for strong female directors everywhere.  Her revolutionary depictions of powerful women in video defy the [...]

The 10 Best Hype Williams Music Videos

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on April 6, 2010. 1 Comment.
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Most film snobs I know are also music video snobs, still fetishizing their collected-works-of spike jones or michel gondry DVDs like college kids. However, one of the most slept on music video auteurs also happens to be one of the most acclaimed by major record labels, mainstream music publications and cable awards shows. The man [...]

Appearance releases via iPhone in the field!

Written by Brandon. Posted on April 6, 2010. No comments.
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Whoa… admitedly, I’ve been holding out on the iphone related stuff, I’m a BBerry guy, but recently I was able to trade my little sister (14 years old) an Urban Outfitters gift card to have her ipod touch on loan.  I’m getting into it, and Urgent Content is developing a mobile ap, so figured I [...]

ReelRoulette – why didn’t we think of this?

Written by Kasia. Posted on March 30, 2010. No comments.
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ReelRoulette is ChatRoulette, but with film/animation/motion graphics reels instead of pantsless dudes. Duh, genius. Click “next” to surf Vimeo reels by talented people (a voyeuristic pleasure if you’re a creative yourself) and, if you’re looking for a new gig, this might just be the funniest way to go about it. What do you have to [...]

the new music videos: interview with isaac ravishankara

Written by Kasia. Posted on March 12, 2010. 2 Comments.
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Isaac Ravishankara and I go way back to “film school,”* so it’s been exciting to watch his visually dynamic, often hilarious music videos popping up all over—most recently at the MTV VMAs. I caught up with him to chat about indie vs. big budget production, the DSLR “revolution,” and music video distribution models. You know, [...]

A Convo w/ Sundance Nominated Max Joseph

Written by Brandon. Posted on March 1, 2010. No comments.
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Max is a great example of a creator who’s taken his skills and creativity and leveraged it in the web video space to gain serious recognition as a filmmaker. In a web video less world, Max’s vision would not have had the multimillion view exposure that it has, and he’s managed to take the [...]

kicking down the fourth wall: interview with cullen hoback

Written by Kasia. Posted on February 23, 2010. No comments.
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We met Cullen Hoback in 2007 at the Cucalorus Festival, a quirky little indie film fest in North Carolina. We drank more than a few toasts to independent filmmaking, and saw his documentary feature, Monster Camp, the next morning. A window into the humble souls of a handful of devoted LARPers (Google it, or better [...]