Film and Filmmaking
This is very sad news that went under the COVID radar. Blase was a great man of action and deep thought, with the highest ability to express his moral and ethical ideas. I love him so much for what I have learned from him. I am working on a project now where I have relied…
I love this photo because it illustrates the unflagging willingness of a true filmmaker to do anything, including going eye to eye with the king of the forest, for the sake of a good shot.
I am developing a docudrama about a soldier in the US Army who defected to the enemy side in 1899 during the Philippines-US War on the island of Luzon. Throughout US History there are lots of other great examples of defection, some recent, but I’m most interested in Black US soldiers in the Pilipino-American War who defected…
Dear Sven: I know this is an unusual way to initiate contact, but I would like to work with you at Shell. Not sure what more to do aside from applying online, but that means HR scrutiny. It is my opinion that the job, Exec Producer/Creative Director is far away from the mainstream categories for…
This link has three interview clips with one of my heroes, Alan Dershowitz, a great thinker, scholar, and advocate for justice. LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/newsmakers/legal-system-treats-celebs-differently–dershowitz-says.html It is well worth the time to watch the interview(s). –Woody Dershowitz? –Alan Allen? My fascination with Dershowitz is enhanced by the fact that Dershowitz’s voice reminds me so much of Woody…
I noticed a SF documentary filmmaker (www.chainedthedocumentary.com) is developing and producing a feature about the “student loan crisis.†I wish him great success. Posing the question to myself, I ask what is the student loan crisis? This gets my mind whirring. So the following is a response to the student loan crisis. Just like Erasmus the Educator, Artist, a Wayfaring…
I am very happy that my doctoral dissertation has been published and internationally distributed by LPO Lambert (Germany). My plan now is to construct a few shorter books from the various sections of the dissertation, examining topics such as the learnability of creativity, filmmaking as a systematic process of work, the practice of grounded theory for filmmaking,…
MOTION PICTURE SCRIPT EXAMPLES all-is-lost blood-diamond-d_july_27_2005_draft brokeback-mountain castaway coach-carter fargo field-of-dreams good-fellas her it’s-complicated midnight-in-paris miller-death-of-a-salesman-study-guide miller-death-of-a-salesman-study miller_death-of-a-salesman napoleon panic-room-spec rescue-dawn-notes jackiebrown seven-samurai sideways spanglish spotlight streetcar-named-desire
What is Life? http://journalism.uoregon.edu/whatis/life/ An educational conference that promises vision and action.
FULL PDF: Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman One of the greatest works of scholarly literature in the 20th century. Relevant today. Great book. In English.