Category: Feature Story
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How Kristen Stewart became SPENCER, a French Connection to Princess Diana
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s been six short years since actor Kristen Stewart became the first American in 30 years to be nominated, then remarkably win, a César or “French Oscar” for CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA. With that opener, this comes as an updated version of KStew’s comeback, which should now be complete…
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Opening highlights from VIFF in Vancouver with Kyle Foster, Danis Goulet & more
by Zoran Dragelj, Screenmancer Canada Last night we gathered on unceded lands on the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada, to celebrate the opening of The 40th Vancouver International Film Festival. The Nations welcomed festival-goers with three unique greetings, while more than 110 feature films, over 75 shorts, various talks and conferences are set to…
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GIDDY STRATOSPHERES a Day on the Set from Director Laura Jean Marsh
by Laura Jean Marsh, Filmmaker Screenmancer Exclusive: We queried GIDDY STRATOSPHERES director Laura Jean Marsh about doing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of her new film, that opened Sept. 14 from Gravitas Ventures. To set up Marsh’s reveal on how she wrote GIDDY STRATOSPHERES during the first lockdown in the UK, here’s some official…
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Garden of Allah: Martin Turnbull unpacks wild Hollywood hang
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When you hear the “Summer of ’37” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood dead-end adventure in writing discussed as if only yesterday, then you would be listening to the outstanding author Martin Turnbull who has mined that era with a fine tooth comb. So get your “Top Hat, White Tie…
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Joe Raffa’s behind the scenes of his new film DOWNEAST
Screenmancer Exclusive: While New England mob films might seem unusual given the Puritan heritage, DOWNEAST is a new film that mixes the subcultures of Lobster fishing and opiate smuggling and joins the ranks of THE DEPARTED, MYSTIC RIVER, and others set in the US Northeast, specifically Maine. Screenmancer is proud to offer a behind-the-screen look…
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Bye pre-viz, post: Enter Real-Time Production, an Unreal Engine & Blender
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Get ready for a 20 second knowledge drop to prepare for the likes of Sam Nicholson, ASC, who asks you to rethink everything about filmmaking. “I like to think we came out of the Chemical Era, went into the Digital Era, and now we’re in the Virtual Era of…
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Prescient RBG, first of kind in state at Capitol only asked: “Take their feet off our necks”
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, born Mar. 15, 1933, passed away on Friday, Sept. 18 at age 87, and is now the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol of the United States of America. Remarkably, when she was 84 Magnolia Pictures released RBG, about her…
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Top 3 tips from Matthew Helderman of BondIt Media Capital for filmmakers
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Distance learning is all the rage with the pandemic making shut-ins of most of us. That said, BondIt CEO Matthew Helderman agreed to have his brain picked for a quick trio of tips for filmmakers. BondIt has worked on such projects as FORCE OF NATURE, starring Emile Hirsch, Mel Gibson, and David…
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Disaster, not a movie: Cal Fire 20 Biggest California Fire List, 1932 to 2020
by Screenmancer Staff We’re taking a few moments to pause and reflect on the largest wildfires per acreage as recorded in California from 1932 to 2020. This list comes from CAL FIRE, and perhaps all of us in or out of the danger zones can take pause to thank the brave men and women of…
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Wild women and whiskey, not the song, Allison Volk from DEANY BEAN IS DEAD has a lockdown film
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Even some women may not know as much as Allison Volk about how to handle this Pandemic and pandemonium we are living through, especially in the Age of Social Media. C’mon, have you ever checked your ex’s Facebook page? Perhaps thumbed through their Instagram, or hit them up anonymously…
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Adam Driver & Fellows in Arms Want You to #HonorAndRemember Today, Always at AITAF
by AITAF on Screenmancer At Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), we believe deeply in the power of storytelling, and its ability to connect, inspire, and inform. We are especially honored to hear stories of your loved ones who have served – whether you share them publicly or through private correspondences with us. This Memorial Day, we encourage you…
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How Writer Corey Levitan Survives Unemployment in Pandemic Times, Read and Repeat
by Corey Levitan, Special Correspondent In 1988, I got accepted to NYU Law School. My future was set. I was going to be JFK Jr.’s classmate. I never knew exactly what I wanted to do for a living, but I knew journalists didn’t make one, and lawyers did. Besides, I could always do journalism as…
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Decoding the Fascinating Appeal of “Tiger King” Joe Exotic, Why Not?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent By now if you haven’t heard proverbial ‘Everybody’ talking about the Netflix special “Tiger King Murder, Mayhem and Madness” and its titular jailhouse-made “star” Joe Exotic, then you’re not paying attention to the COVID19 lockdown zeitgeist. In just seven episodes, dating from March 20 and nearly coinciding with Coronavirus…
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Even If You’re in the Pink COVID19-wise, PINK Schools You About It
by Quendrith Johnson, Screenmancer Staff There’s a time for infighting among the Redbull and BlueMoon States, or states of mind, but right now we’re all trying to be in the pink, health-wise. #COVID19 and the Coronavirus health-quake is on now. EllenTube, from Ellen Degeneres, shows us in her interview with musical artist PINK that we…
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Matt Wolf of SPACESHIP EARTH Knows You’re Going Stir Crazy, So…
by Matt Wolf, Director Spaceship Earth, From NEON Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered biodome called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that…
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