Filmmaker Blog - Mario J. Novoa

In This Short, Death Shows a Dead Man Everything He Once Was In “Coda,” an animated short from And Maps And Plans studio and directed by Alan Holly, a drunk man dies. And then Death finds his soul in the park, refusing to let him just wander. Instead, Death takes him on a journey to see “many things.” “Coda” is finally online after winning a number of awards and being shortlisted for an Oscar. It’s easy to see why — it’s perfectly conceived and executed, with a lovely deathly feel. Some parts barely NSFW.

Filmmakers share their advice for aspiring filmmakers. In each episode of QUESTIONS, a different group of filmmakers answer a single question asked by the Academy.

Filmed on the RED Epic Dragon 6K in Portrait orientation and then stitched together in Adobe After Effects. Some shots simply scaled up by 125% from 6.1K to meet the 7.6K standard.

Latino Filmmakers Build LGBT Pride through Cinema By Joseph R. Castel As we roll into another Pride month filled with half-naked men on floats, we can take real self-satisfaction in that a growing number of Latino filmmakers are finally documenting Latino LGBT history and culture for the big screen.In the past few years, bio documentaries have been making permanent waves on the film festival circuit.Such films include Jonathan Mendez’s Gay Latino L.A.: Coming of Age, Gregorio Davila’s “Nancy from East Side Clover,” and Dante Alencastre’s “Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story.

Shia LaBeouf yelling at you for a minute straight is pure motivation

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