New England
Filmmaking | Interviews | Massachusetts | New England | Short Films
Be What You Talk About
Suzy Cosgrove interviews writer/director Raeshelle Cooke about her film Wrath City, about what inspired her to make it, and about the conversations she is hoping it will start.
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Filmmaking | How To's | Local Industry | New England
New Year’s Resolution? Kickstart Your Film Career.
Losing weight, exercising more, pssha! Make your New Year’s resolution this year to kickstart your film career. Here are 6 ideas to help you do just that.
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Connecticut | Industry News | Massachusetts | New England | New Hampshire | Vermont
Industry News: January 2018
The Mountaintop Film Festival, Rule Boston Camera’s move, and submissions for Salem Film Fest’s Mass Reality Check. See screenings, opportunities, and industry buzz for the month of January. Send us news to news@newenglandfilm.com.
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Documentary | Interviews | New England | Vermont
The Voyeur, Revealed: An Interview with Josh Koury and Myles Kane
Aja Zoecklein interviews co-directors Josh Koury and Myles Kane about the point of view in their documentary Voyeur, the relationship between their subjects, and what their subjects think of the film.
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Film Funding | How To's | New England
Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd
Author Richard “RB” Botto shares tips on crowdfunding for filmmakers with NewEnglandFilm.com in an excerpt from his book Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd.
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Connecticut | Females in Film | Filmmaking | Interviews | Maine | Massachusetts | New England | New Hampshire | New York | Rhode Island | Screenwriting | Vermont
Nicole Kempskie on the Stowe Story Labs and her project: Helen on 86th St.
Stowe Story Labs Fellow, Nicole Kempskie discusses her musical screenplay adaptation of Helen on 86th St., and her experience at the 2017 Fall Narrative retreat.
Read more...Fellowship, Musical Screenplay, Screenwriting, Stowe Story Labs, Women in Film
Festival Interviews | Film Festivals | Filmmaking | Maine | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Bird Carver
Screening through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, Bird Carver profiles Steven Valleau, the bird carver in-residence at the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, ME. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, the documentary’s director Madeleine Cohen discusses how life’s big choices inspire her films and offers some unique advice about documentary filmmaking.
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Documentary | Festival Interviews | Film Festivals | Interviews | Massachusetts | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Praying for Change
Screening through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, Praying for Change highlights homelessness in the US through the lens of Leroy Bailey, a man committed to improving the lives of homeless veterans. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, the film’s director Brian McPartlan reveals his inspiration for the film and Netflix the documentary that inspired him to become a filmmaker.
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Documentary | Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Interviews | Maine | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Oak Street Mural
Oak Street Mural, which screens through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, captures the creation of a public mural in Rockland, ME through gorgeous time-lapse photography. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, one of the documentary’s directors, Scott Sell, discusses the impetus for making it and how his background in journalism led him to filmmaking.
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Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Interviews | New England | New Hampshire | Vermont
2017 Festival Interview: Fire
Screening through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival and based on a short story, the short film Fire is a story where the cold of winter becomes a threat to the protagonist. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, the film’s director, Ben Silberfarb talks about the trilogy of films about the outdoors he’s working on and he provides insight on how he came to own his own production company, SILBERFARB-FILMS.
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