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Artur Pilarczyk

My first production was like the first girlfriend, very important and necessary. Although it becomes less and less significant in time, it never lets you to forget itself.

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Interview with Daniel DeFabio Ballston Spa Film Festival director

The third annual Ballston Spa Film Festival is now accepting short films of all genres for the August 2010 event. Narrative, documentary and animated films are welcome. Awards will be given in a dozen categories, including student filmmaker categories for both college and high school age students, best new film and local interest. In the 2009 festival, Chris Jones of England took home three of the top awards for his film Gone Fishing.

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Interview with Hanu Roj Jaipur International Film Festival director

Though film festivals have now become a regular affair in most countries yet most of these cater only to a select audiences as well as commercially successful film makers and film personalities. However, JIFF intends to organize a festival that connects the common man with the film world, especially the small film makers and their associates so as to bring about greater understanding of the art of film making.

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Interview with Greg Ropp president of Spirit Quest Film Festival & Eerie Horror Film Festival

Be sure to follow all of the guidelines before sending in your entries. Though we are very lenient, we do take note of which filmmakers and screenwriters have taken the time to follow the rules (ie: sending us two copies of their project, writing their contact information and film information on their discs, etc).If you have any questions, however redundant or silly you may think they are, please e-mail us or call us. We’re here to help.

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Borys Lankosz

Film director, the brightest star of Polish cinema in 2009, the best selling winner of the most important Polish film festival in this century.

He says "it seems to me that the cinema is dying, that it’s dead already and now only these last vital impulses diverge as some kind of a tide". Should we all be worried?

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Beata Marciniak

The first production was connected with my dissertation. It was an amazing adventure as well as a big leap into unknown. Working on a set immediately verifies all the human flaws and  merits of the crew. It was an incredible lesson of humility, patience and discipline.

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Magda M. Olchawska

Have all the finances under control and always sign the contracts, no matter what. When you feel like giving up, give yourself few days break and go back to making films again.

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Artur Pilarczyk

My first production was like the first girlfriend, very important and necessary. Although it becomes less and less significant in time, it never lets you to forget itself.

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Sergi Rubió

You become a filmmaker the day you feel this special feeling - love for the Cinema and all its roles.
A guy working in an office who suddenly feels the excitement to buy a camera and shoot his kids
on his free time is already a Filmmaker.

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Alan Trow

"Great cinematography can't improve a duff script, but it can make it bearable to watch. Bad lighting can easily ruin a great script and get in the way of the storytelling."

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Gora Chand

Music video company I work for doesn't work by internet and I have no personal website to upload video. So I upload some of the video clips I acted in on bulletfilm.com. And now everybody can see my work.

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Holli Sadler

"Important thing in my films is the attention to various levels: actors, objects, music, lighting,  actual height and distance between said things. Levels always capture, no matter what the message is, and keep people watching."

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Paweł Palcat

"The most important thing actor has to do is to find the way of creating a idiosyncratic character not just recreating screenplayer vision."

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Rama

"As a movie blogger, I keep my readers up to date with every headline and info from the movie world but I keep things fresh, simple, fun, at the same time inviting any comment for discussion."

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Russ Adams

"I learned that you always treat your production like a business first and art second. Get the business out of the way, then focus on art."

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