http://www.apartment304.com/blog Filmmaking Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:00:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More good news on the Birthday Girl front. Just got word that my short film was accepted at the Edmonton International Film Festival! The film will be screening Oct. 3rd at 7pm so if you're in or around the area do check it out. For those of you in Montreal who ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/08/15/edmonton-intl-film-festival/ Birthday Girl will have its French premiere at the Strasbourg International Film Festival! No word yet as to when the film will be screening but as soon as I know I'll post the info. This is SIFF's first year running. Looking forward to being a part of it. http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/08/15/strasbourg-intl-film-festival/ I've been checking out some photography exhibits over the past couple of months. Whenever I'm looking for inspiration in terms of style and mood for my films I tend to check out photography before I look to other films. Although camera movement is essential (I took a course in university specifically ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/08/12/photography-as-inspiration/ A couple of weeks ago I was listening to Stephen Gaghan talk about Syriana, a film which he wrote and directed back in 2006. The best advice Gaghan got on writing was from reading a biography by Henri Troyat on Tolstoy. Tolstoy famously wrote in his journal that to write ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/31/transitions/ Berlin is home to many things: pastries, graffiti, electronic music just to name a few, but its staple (and number one snack food) are their sausages. Not just any sausage though - the currywürst. You can't walk five meters without hitting a sausage stand that sells currywürst. The currywürst (pronounced ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/29/konnopkes-imbiss/ The cineplex is dominated by male protagonists. Films are mostly geared towards male audiences and men make up a large number of the writers, directors, producers etc., working in the industry. According to the Celluloid Ceiling report, Martha M. Lauzen writes that "women comprised a scant 15% of all directors, ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/28/womens-voice-in-film-critism/ It's one thing to watch Obama speak on youtube and quite something else to attend a live rally of a groundbreaking politician on Unter den Linden. Over 200,000 people turned up for the event. Some photos I took of Obama's big day in Berlin. Watch the speech. http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/25/obamania/ The city is abuzz over Obama's visit tomorrow. His impending speech has caused quite a stir here and abroad. Talks of him speaking at the Brandenburg Gate have left some with a bad taste in their mouth but leave it to those who know what they're talking about to put ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/23/obama-in-berlin/ I was back in Montreal for a few days last week, hence the lack of blogging. I'm back in Berlin and suffering from two doses of jet lag. (I don't think I recovered from the first bout of jet lag before I was back on plane heading across the ocean ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/18/week-in-review/ I'd like to start talking about the film I'm currently working on. I've been living in Berlin for the past several months working on a script that's being funded by SODEC and Telefilm (we're waiting to hear back from The Harold Greenberg Fund to see if they're interested in climbing ... http://www.apartment304.com/blog/2008/07/03/music-and-film/