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This guy reviews independent projects for supplying finishing funds...I think they are somehow connected to the Independent Film Channel.
http://www.nextwavefilms.com/mark.html
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 23, 2002 01:26 PM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>
Look in the filmography section to see the previous Super-8 Productions.
http://www.insound.com/_insound.cfm?...%2Findex%2Ecfm
they even shoot super-8 at USC...
http://lagunacinema.com/USC_Film/wendy_filmography.htm
A Review of the Dead next Door. This Super-8 Film was released in 1990...Sam Rami helped finance it.
http://www.flipsidemovies.com/deadnextdoor.html
Another Sam Raimi connection...
http://www.beckerfilms.com/bruce2.html
Head of the film program at NW University used Super-8 for his earlier films.
http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/people/kleinhans/
This Person worked with Spike Lee...
http://www.thirteen.org/reelnewyork3...ew-knight.html
I saw an Interview with Ron Howard on the TV last week where he talked about becoming interested in film by shooting Super 8 as a teenager.
This is a link concerning both Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg getting started using Super 8 and R8:
http://personal.centenary.edu/~rsnider/spielberg.html
http://www.flipsidemovies.com/jrbookwalter.html
Please feel free to find stories of other filmmakers who have become well known and started out with Super-8mm
Good Luck Tao...
http://www.ruspoli.com/resume.html
Sam Raimi is big name director now and he (along with actor Bruce Cambell) made a lot of Super 8 shorts. I have their Super 8 short "Watcher in the Woods" on my computer. It was their first concoction of the Evil Dead series.
Nicolas Cage acted in a lot of Super 8 shorts that he and friends made.
Modanna's first acting job in a full length film "A Certain Sacrifice" was shot on Super 8 with an Elmo 1012S-XL using direct sound.
Wes Anderson made Super 8 films when he was a kid! I tried to get him to send me his 8 super 8 films for a super 8 screening I had, but he never responded!!
I'm pretty sure there's a wesanderson.com now....
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cameraguy:
Sam Raimi is big name director now and he (along with actor Bruce Cambell) made a lot of Super 8 shorts. I have their Super 8 short "Watcher in the Woods" on my computer. It was their first concoction of the Evil Dead series.
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Sorry for the nitpicking, but the actual title is "Within the Woods". "Watcher in the Woods", on the other hand is a rather weak thriller starring Bette Davis, with no conneciton to Saim Raimi or Super8.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by ComingApart:
Sorry for the nitpicking, but the actual title is "Within the Woods". "Watcher in the Woods", on the other hand is a rather weak thriller starring Bette Davis, with no conneciton to Saim Raimi or Super8.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
Your right.
See kids, drugs do damage brain cells.
Spielberg made several films on Regular 8 before making his breakthrough film Amblin. By the time Super8 game along he was already working in Hollywood.
Japanese filmmaker who started with Super-8 film.
http://www.manga.com/tetsuo/cast.html
German filmmaker.
http://cooldirectors.imess.net/Tom%2...er_article.htm
Asian American Film...
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/fea...uentinlee.html
Sam Rami and his early Super-8 films and subsequent film career discussed via an Emerson College article.
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/fea...uentinlee.html
For the Australian Crowd.
http://128.250.152.26/staff/arthur/
http://www.ktca.org/mntv/2001/bios.html
"Hearts Breaking In Slow Motion"
by Matthew Stenerson Matthew Stenerson grew up in Stillwater, MN. After directing a few videos as a teen, he studied art and photography at the University of Minnesota. After graduation, he moved to Austin, Texas and flirted with the idea of becoming a professional movie extra, finding success "co-starring" as blurry background "characters" with various teen heart-throbs such as James Van Der Beek and Matthew McConaughey. He later turned back to filmmaking and completed several super-8 short films. Back in Minnesota, he continued making short films. "Hearts Breaking ins Slow Motion" is his first 16mm film."
from the Phillipines...
http://www.vconline.org/4wall/epress...s/indexred.htm
Plexifilm's first release followed by FRUIT OF THE VINE (1999) a skateboarding documentary shot in Super 8 mm,
http://www.plexifilm.com/release120502.html
I found this description...
Shred-heads will dig Fruit of the Vine, a skateboard doc shot on Super-8 in locales including Seattle.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 29, 2003 06:23 PM: Message edited by: Super-8mm in the DigitalAge ]</font>
From Iran.
Babak Payami ? Ever since I can remember, I had this passion for films and filmmaking. At a very young age I got access to this Super-8 camera and I played around with it. For me, life as an immigrant, I?ve been an immigrant since I was six years old and basically living on my own or relatively independently since my later teenage years. So I stuck to it, I?m a late starter, I made my first feature at the age of 32. In principle I?m self-taught as a practical filmmaker. If you want to be a filmmaker you don?t buy it from a University, you just get on and do what you?re doing. I don?t want to discourage people from going to film school, it was a catalyst and I learned a lot from it. I would be a very bad example of how to become a filmmaker, probably my life story is exactly how you don?t become a filmmaker, yet I became a filmmaker.
t has definitely changed and evolved. There are a lot of positive aspects, the increase in the number of films and the new blood that is being injected into the industry, there a lot of good, new Iranian filmmakers that are starting to make films. Hopefully this type of independent filmmaking will persevere in Iran.
http://www.rlff.com/db_world/cinema....rviews_246.htm
Jem Cohen:
Working off an archive of his own film footage, Jem Cohen's projects have no actors yet
interesting characters. They are not documentaries but they generally contain no staged
scenes. They have no show-off shots yet use time-lapse, slo-mo and camera movement to
create a rich atmosphere. A friend introduced me to Jem Cohen's work about three years ago.
As a fan of the big city, I loved Cohen's THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK (1987), a street-
shot portrait of the metropolis done in world-altering super-8 film. I was then blown away by
BURIED IN LIGHT ('94), a document of Cohen's travels through Central and Eastern Europe.
His super-8 captured what it looked like before corporate change would alter it forever. Then
I got jealous. Cohen's LOST BOOK FOUND ('96) is the film I had always wanted to make. Shot
on NYC streets in super-8 and 16mm, BOOK is a spooky mix of documentary and narrative,
telling the story of a push cart vendor's encounter with a book full of mysterious listings of
places, objects, incidents - the key to the hidden city. I knew when I met Jem I would ask him
how he made a film with my thoughts.
http://www.cinemadmag.com/issue_two_articles.html
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Actor:
Spielberg made several films on Regular 8 before making his breakthrough film Amblin. By the time Super8 game along he was already working in Hollywood.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
He made a series of 8mm movies that got
increasingly ambitious. I've forgotten the
name but his last one was a feature length 8mm
that containted elements of what would later
be "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind". When he
got to Hollywood no one was interested in his
8mm films so made two shorts an aborted
bicycle racing movie and "Amblin" on 35.
Which I think won a few awards and was his
showcase movie. I'd like to know how he finaced
his 35mm shorts. Its pretty amazing he managed
to do all this before he was 25.