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Sebastián Silva and Derek Cianfrance among Filmmaker Magazine’s 2009 Top 25 List
The current issue of Filmmaker Magazine has hit kiosks and the only reason why I'd be pointing this out is because it includes its annual "25 New Faces" feature (available here) which is basically: a sampling of the future voices, filmmakers, editors, actors and cinematographers who in the opinion of the magazine's editors represent the future of independent filmmaking and who, I admittedly know only two of the twenty-five.
Tucci Draws Brosnan, Clarkson and Moore into ‘The Hunter’
Part of the perks of being an actor who moonlights as a director is being able to call favors upon friends like Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Julianne Moore.
Anchor Bay say ‘Grace’
I wonder if Anchor Bay Entertainment will be legally responsible for theater-going injuries? Before they give Paul Solet's Grace the homevid release, the company will give it a small theatrical launch beforehand on August 14 in New York and Los Angeles, and then release it exactly one month later.
For Your Ears Only: Top 10 Film-Related Podcasts
Though they're still in the infancy stages, and many need tweaking, podcasts of the film kind help break away from mundane days of endless writing. Below are my favorite podcasts and *video podcast time wasters that are worth checking out.
The ‘Creation’ of a New TIFF?
An indication that Atom Egoyan's Chloe will most definitely find a competition slot in Venice, TIFF has uncharacteristically went with a foreign English language title as the film festival's opening night selection. The spot usually reserved for a Canadian film went to Jon Amiel's unsold Creation which will have its world premiere on the 10th of September.
