A recent Underground Film Journal article titled “Web Series Or Movie: Which Should You Make?” inspired a lively and spirited discussion on Facebook between several independent filmmakers that explored their personal ideas on the future of digital distribution. The provocative back-and-forth has been reprinted below. (With all the filmmakers’ permission.)
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
- 1/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley‘s Rumur Films is committed to making socially relevant and activist films. Their latest documentary, Who Took Johnny, examines the issue of missing children in America by following the tragic case of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old boy who mysteriously disappeared while delivering newspapers one morning in 1982 in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, has never given up looking for her son for the past 30 years, even though local law enforcement has never classified her son’s disappearance as a crime.
Rumur Films is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to send DVDs of the completed film to the 50 State Clearinghouses for Missing and Exploited Children that provide valuable resources to missing children, their families and law enforcement agencies.
Plus, the fundraising campaign is also serving to introduce audiences to the entire catalog of Rumur’s productions, many of which have been featured on the Underground Film Journal,...
Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, has never given up looking for her son for the past 30 years, even though local law enforcement has never classified her son’s disappearance as a crime.
Rumur Films is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to send DVDs of the completed film to the 50 State Clearinghouses for Missing and Exploited Children that provide valuable resources to missing children, their families and law enforcement agencies.
Plus, the fundraising campaign is also serving to introduce audiences to the entire catalog of Rumur’s productions, many of which have been featured on the Underground Film Journal,...
- 1/1/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filmmaker Michael Galinsky has been named one of thirteen Guggenheim Fellows in film and video for 2012.
For the past 88 years, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to scholars, artists, and scientists in a variety of different disciplines in the creative arts, humanities, natural and social sciences. Out of nearly 3,000 applicants in 2012, 181 fellows were chosen.
Galinsky’s most recent film was the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which he co-directed with Suki Hawley. Seven years in the making, the doc focused on the struggles of a group of Brooklyn residents to prevent their homes from being demolished by an aggressive developer hoping to build a new sports complex with the help of a compliant city government.
Battle for Brooklyn was named runner-up for Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011.
Galinsky is also one-third of Rumur, a multimedia production studio and distributor that...
For the past 88 years, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to scholars, artists, and scientists in a variety of different disciplines in the creative arts, humanities, natural and social sciences. Out of nearly 3,000 applicants in 2012, 181 fellows were chosen.
Galinsky’s most recent film was the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which he co-directed with Suki Hawley. Seven years in the making, the doc focused on the struggles of a group of Brooklyn residents to prevent their homes from being demolished by an aggressive developer hoping to build a new sports complex with the help of a compliant city government.
Battle for Brooklyn was named runner-up for Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011.
Galinsky is also one-third of Rumur, a multimedia production studio and distributor that...
- 4/24/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Battle for Brooklyn, the new documentary by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, is opening today, June 17, in two theaters in New York City. It is screening both at the Cinema Village in Manhattan and at indieScreen in Brooklyn. It’s running for one week at both theaters and the filmmakers are hoping to attend as many screenings as possible.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Battle for Brooklyn has everything you want in a great political thriller: An everyman underdog fighting against impossible forces. Elected officials in bed with big money businessmen. Devious and deceptive business and political maneuverings. Great personal tragedy and triumph.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
- 6/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here’s some underground film Twitter feeds for you to follow:
An Affair. Chris Hansen’s (American Messiah, Endings) third feature film has recently gone into production in Texas and you can follow its progress on Twitter, which links to very entertaining production blog posts and more. Learn all about shooting at sleazy locations; shutting down city streets for Steadicam shots and the bonding of Hansen’s film student crew. (Hansen is a film professor at Baylor University and uses his students as crew.) Follow @AnAffair_Film.
Battle for Brooklyn. The new documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (Horns and Halos) is now out on the festival circuit and will soon be in a theater near you. Read up on the accolades it’s earning and learn more about the continuing skirmishes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project that the film covers. (Film to be reviewed on Bad Lit soon.
An Affair. Chris Hansen’s (American Messiah, Endings) third feature film has recently gone into production in Texas and you can follow its progress on Twitter, which links to very entertaining production blog posts and more. Learn all about shooting at sleazy locations; shutting down city streets for Steadicam shots and the bonding of Hansen’s film student crew. (Hansen is a film professor at Baylor University and uses his students as crew.) Follow @AnAffair_Film.
Battle for Brooklyn. The new documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (Horns and Halos) is now out on the festival circuit and will soon be in a theater near you. Read up on the accolades it’s earning and learn more about the continuing skirmishes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project that the film covers. (Film to be reviewed on Bad Lit soon.
- 6/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
.Battle For Brookln,. The Story Of One Neighborhood.S Fight Against The Controversial Atlantic Yards Project, To Have Theatrical Premiere In New York City
Film to open at Cinema Village in Manhattan and
at Indie Screen in Brooklyn on June 17
Battle For Brooklyn, the controversial documentary by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Horns and Halos) about one Brooklyn neighborhood.s enduring battle against the corporate developers of the Atlantic Yards project, will have its theatrical premiere in New York City on June 17th. The film will also open this year.s Brooklyn Film Festival on June 3rd, and will screen in the Rooftop Films summer series on June 9th in Fort Greene Park.
Battle For Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn.s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way...
Film to open at Cinema Village in Manhattan and
at Indie Screen in Brooklyn on June 17
Battle For Brooklyn, the controversial documentary by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Horns and Halos) about one Brooklyn neighborhood.s enduring battle against the corporate developers of the Atlantic Yards project, will have its theatrical premiere in New York City on June 17th. The film will also open this year.s Brooklyn Film Festival on June 3rd, and will screen in the Rooftop Films summer series on June 9th in Fort Greene Park.
Battle For Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn.s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way...
- 5/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
NEW YORK -- Continuing a flurry of recent deals under its new head of acquisitions, Marie Therese Guirgis, indie banner Wellspring has acquired U.S rights to Dans ma peau (In My Skin), the first feature directed by Marina de Van. Peau, which follows a young woman's increasing fascination with her body after sustaining an injury at a party, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and will be released theatrically at the end of the year. De Van, who co-wrote Francois Ozon's 8 Women and Under the Sand, penned the script and stars in Peau. Laurence Farenc served as producer. The deal was brokered by Guirgis and Pierre Menahem of Paris-based sales outfit Celluloid Dreams. Also this month, Wellspring snapped up international rights to Billy Corben's controversial documentary Raw Deal as well as another documentary, Horns and Halos, by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (HR 3/18).
- 3/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Indie banner Wellspring has picked up international rights to Billy Corben's controversial documentary Raw Deal, as well as another documentary, Horns and Halos by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley. The acquisitions are the first for Wellspring under the company's newly appointed head of acquisitions, Marie Therese Guirgis, who was upped from director of acquisitions this month (HR 3/11).
- 3/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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