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wild at heart - weird on top

[Hollywood Gadfly @Hwdgfly]

Hollywood’s favorite story: the broke outsider who self-financed an $80k movie on credit cards.

The receipts: a ~$1M elite education, $330k+ in grants on her prior film, and a father - a Chinese real-estate and equity investor - credited as an executive producer.

I call it “poorface.” New piece: https://t.co/VTC1Twrpgj

[Sophy Romvari @SophyRomvari]

The best thing you can do when putting together a low budget film is consider what you *actually* need to pull off your vision. Film is inherently built on needless excess. Write for your budget instead of creating unethical working conditions.

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

Bite the Bullet

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

Curry Barker’s dad is a screenwriter. It’s parents who understand and actively support wild ideas like “becoming a YouTuber” that make all the difference.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

I haven't seen Backrooms yet and I hope it's great, but I wish that Phillip Youmans had gotten this much attention when he made Burning Cane, a movie of actual horrors, at the age of seventeen.

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@Variety Tribeca been falling off for some time now

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@David_Rudnick legendary

[VMU @VeeEmYou]

30 years ago you didn't need to be 50 years old to head major projects or have responsibility.

[WIRED @WIRED]

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad. https://t.co/hvzftrns8V

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@miryam_charles ✨ 🙌🏾

[Miryam Charles @miryam_charles]

Spent 6 years working on my first feature on a tiny budget. Found ways to shoot that did not impact too much the team salaries while staying true to my vision. Guess I am shooting a weird film soon and will be able to pay people decent salaries ! Broke my SODEC curse.This life !

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@lowkydee Very helmut lang

[DJ @grindingthefilm]

Jean Renoir: “And to love a film, one must be a would-be filmmaker. You have to be able to say to yourself, "I would have done it this way, I would have done it that way." You have to make films yourself, if only in your mind.. If not, you're not worthy of going to the movies.”

[sarah hagi @KindaHagi]

idk why anyone would wanna make a movie just seems like too much work

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Éric Rohmer 1981 @cahierscinema "I've always made films so that what's interesting comes from thinking it over, not just from an immediate impression. When someone asks my opinion right after a film, I can't answer, it takes at least overnight, I have to have dreamt about it."

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@GoIntoTheStory Hey Scott! Just checking in on this. Any updates?

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

@ShakExcellence Yup. I think about this one and Dryslongo by Cauleen Smith a lot. Both are sorely underseen.

[Zachary Goldkind — חיים נתן @AGoldenkind]

Canadian arts funding is in the process of breaking down into an unsustainable reality. If you idealize our system, I’m sorry but you’re an idiot. I laugh with Sarah, but mostly just cry.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Mmhmm. Getting funding is extremely difficult and can takes ages, and filmmakers need multiple grants because one isn't enough to cover even a short film project. Also, the Carney government is chipping away at funding b/c he doesn't see supporting arts programs as a priority.

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

I think about this chart a lot. It’s a bit dated and not Canada specific, but still a useful bit of data

[ᴛᴏʀʀɪɴ @TorrinBlades]

Yup. Telefilm is hardly the bastion of the arts people would like it to be!

[sarah hagi @KindaHagi]

sorry i’m laughing my ass off at the idea that canada is some type of artist utopia where the government encourages artists to make beautiful films… for every incredible indie there are seven little italys