A short history of shorts at the Oscars
Daazo takes a look at some of the notable milestones regarding live action short films at the Oscars. The Academy always did it’s best to award those great directors, producers who made those legendary “One-reelers’. We take a short look on the history of shorts for today’s big night. So let’s see in...
Call to young film makers (18-30): Participate to the creation of a documentary during the “Festival des Libertés”
Don’t let your dreams go to waste! The BIJ was created by the Commissariat General aux Relations Internationales and Direction Generale de la Culture of the French speaking Community of Belgium to implement and manage youth exchange programmes. Offers the opportunities in more than 70 countries for young people from Wallonia and Brussels. Within the...
Call for Participants: Produce your own Festival TV!
Kino5 is looking for young video journalists and filmmakers from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia to create a TV show covering the CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz / Austria, which takes place from 24th – 29th of April 2012. The Austrian participants will be students of the University of Art and Industrial...
Starting signal for the new Berlinale initiative Berlinale Residency
The Berlinale is expanding its portfolio with an additional initiative and extending a four-month invitation to six filmmakers and their new projects to the creative metropolis of Berlin in autumn 2012. The new international fellowship programme, Berlinale Residency, will help filmmakers to complete their scripts successfully, as well as to develop the audience potential of...
Raindance’s gurus on beliefs, myths and misconceptions
Filmmakers and Screenwriters Career Strategy 2012 If your career strategy doesn’t change, if it doesn’t grow and develop then it is merely surviving. Who wants to survive. Don’t you want to live? When hearing about a success in another, most screenwriters and filmmakers start whining: “That may work for their project, but not ours.” Don’t...
“Impossible is a Mission for a Filmmaker!”
Vote for the best – The Impossible Film Contest by Daazo.com! Daazo.com – The European Short Film Centre announced a film contest for all the participants of the Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner 2011. Organized by the Festival de Cannes, the Short Film Corner is the essential rendez-vous for filmmakers. Many careers have started...
Websites to Keep You Informed
The Independent Filmmaker’s Guides to the Film Galaxy indieWIRE If you are an aspiring filmmaker in the need for a starting point to begin your daily search on the Internet, indieWIRE is the website for you. Don’t sip your coffee before you checked out the daily news site of the independent film community! It covers...
Call for participants: FEST Training Ground
FEST Training Ground is an educational event where new and upcoming filmmakers and film students from all over the world gather in one week, to attend a deluxe training that includes workshops, master classes and debates headed by some of the industry’s top experts with highly acknowledged achievements. The event is one of the largest...
The Tricks and Traps of Independent Filmmaking
The Very Basics that Every Filmmaker Should Know The ultimate place for a low-budget, independent-minded filmmaker to learn the tricks about filmmaking for free is Raindance. Though they deal with a lot of things (training courses, seminars, feature film projects, film festivals and awards) the best is that they provide practical information about all aspects...
Top Free Softwares for the Independent Filmmaker
This is the new entry of our series on the blog which guides you through the whole process of making a short film. In this post we are going to focus on all the additional softwares that are required to completely finish your job and release a successful short film. Here are the freebies we...
Top 3 Websites Offering Free Tools for Filmmakers
After checking out the theory of making short films (Top 3 Free E-books on Short Films) in this post we are going to focus on the very practical side of filmmaking. The first and most important thing you have to learn if you want to move your work to a professional level is that it...
Mas y Mas – Filmmakers without Film School
Have you ever attended film school? For some it works out well, while others don’t even bother. This month’s Mas y Mas is about filmmakers without film schools. Read it online here or download the pdf!