Spotlight #07
Another uncertain Monday and with potential lockdown in the air no one knows what today might bring. Except for one thing – your weekly Spotlight was just published!
This Week's Curated Articles
What Is An Independent Film Producer? - Raindance
When we were younger ("so much younger than today" - sorry, couldn't miss this one, now it'll be in our heads for the whole day), I imagined (ok, I give it a miss here) producer as a person, who mostly handles money and wears a suit – and is kinda boring.
But the truth is quite the opposite – usually, the producer must be a creative person and there is so much more behind this profession than most of the people realize. Producers do not exist just to simply fulfil the director's dream. They have to work together as a team to create the best film possible.
And as a producer, you will spend so much more time on a project then you plan initially, so trust me on this one – pick your director carefully.
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Became an Independent Film Producer
Speaking about directors, their moving up in the industry has a different set of rules than producers'. What does it mean to be an independent producer, volume II, and how to move up in the industry, this time with a touch of reality.
Warning: some dreams might get crushed after reading this one.
A Study of Unreliable Narrators Throughout Film History
David Fincher's Fight Club or Gone Girl, Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump – those films have in common (at least) one thing – an unreliable narrator. A person, who you might trust in the beginning and he might be very sympathetic, but you slowly reveal that not everything stated by him must be actually true. This type of protagonist could be a really interesting choice because by shaking the viewer's reality and his trustfulness, the audience stays tensed until the very end.
The Essential Value of Screen Tests & Why You Should Do Them
Even though the lockdown seems to be just around the corner (we should know by the evening which corner it is), film productions are still on and they need to accommodate to the current situation.
One of them is organizing a casting. It's starting to be more and more common to ask in the first round for a self-tape, but screen test is the (final) step you should not underestimate. Not for nothing they say that a live, theatre performance is totally different kind of acting that the on-camera one.
From the Archives
What's Hollywood Going to Look Like When This is Over?
Covid pandemic is causing some hard times to most of the businesses, but one of the most harmed areas is the culture, of course. How the Hollywood will look like after the apocalypse is gone, what will change forever and what will remain? Get to the heart of the matter.
Festival Window
Ji.hlava IDFF | Moving to digital asylum
We all expected it, we all hoped it won't happen, but it did. International Documentary Film Festival Ji.hlava is going online. The team tried till the last breath to keep it live, but the situation is not allowing it. So, let's cheer them up online at least!
This Week's Recommendation
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Official Trailer | Netflix
I bet all of you know David Attenborough, or at least his voice from his collab with BBC for almost 60 years. He is not just a director, screenwriter and broadcaster, but also a respected natural historian. And now he started to beat a retreat because of the massive changes that are tremendously endangering our planet Earth.
Trailer of the Week
Free Guy Trailer 2
Events of past weeks were, to say it nicely, a little bit bleak. And our trailers were not exactly positive if we remember correctly. So we thought "How about showing something nice, funny, almost relaxing?" – emphasis on "almost". And let's be honest – who doesn't like Ryan Reynolds?