It has long been believed, by many filmmakers and photographers, that shooting in the iconic New York City subway system is against the law and a great way to get the unwanted attention of transit cops. In a post 9/11 city, this belief is generally accepted as untested fact. Why should you expect t...read more
It's a new year and that means its time for another round of film festivals. According to the New York Times, we are in "January, the month of Sundance" and every newspaper and film site is doing their spin on this behemoth film festival. The San Francisco Chronicle says Sundance "Puts Risk-Takers...read more
Episode #5 was the first video podcast featuring an impromptu interview with documentary producer/director, Adrian Belic. Last year at Sundance I approached Adrian at one of the documentary seminars about scheduling an interview after I overheard him giving some passionate filmmaking advice to two ...read more
Okay, Lost Episode #4: “Learning the Process of Filmmaking” (Pt. 2 of 2) is finally up on iTunes. I’ve been underground for a few weeks. It’s been a busy month for the Down an Dirty DV project. Coming up next in Episode #5, our first VIDEO podcast featuring snippets of an inspiring interv...read more
Alright, I am back from summer vacation. Episode #3 – Learning the Process of Filmmaking is officially out the box. This is Part 1 of a two-parter. This is a topic I haven’t really come across much discussion on, so I thought I’d give you my take. Essentially, I wanted to just relay a list...read more
Just a quick announcement that Episode #2 show notes will be posted by Monday July 3rd or sooner. (I was able to post the episode sooner than I thought, so I'm behind on that.) Also, I'm still deciding what I want to do for Episode #3, so if you've got any guerrilla filmmaking topics you want me t...read more
I was just checking the old site meter and was surprised by how many international visitors have checked out the blog lately, especially since I haven't really started to promote this site yet. So I just thought I'd take a quick minute to give some love back with a quick Down and Dirty DV internati...read more
The Down and Dirty DV Podcast is officially live and available to the free world. The podcast, like this blog is all about low-budget digital filmmaking. The podcast episodes will randomly alternate between enhanced audio and video podcasts.Episode #1 - Choosing A CameraIn Episode #1 I break dow...read more
Check out how Down and Dirty they get in Italy. Italian filmmaker's Marcello Mencarini and Barbara Seghezzi shot their feature-length doc, "New Love Meetings" on a Nokia cellphone. I shit you not.The movie is an updated version of the 1965 Italian documentary, "Love Meetings", by Pier Paolo Pasoli...read more
What the Hell is Machinima...and Why Should Aspiring Filmmaker's Care?Simply put, it's the latest hypest in filmmaking. I honestly, don't know much about it, but my friend, Skye, sent me a link to a machinima contest sponsored by Intel and I've been hearing some buzz about it for the past few month...read more