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The Eyeslicer: An Indie Filmmaker Variety Series (By Invitation Only)
2 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Producers Dan Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell have launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Eyeslicer, a new variety series by and for indie filmmakers. Among the filmmakers set to contribute are David Lowery, the Zellner Brothers, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, Yen Tan, Calvin Reeder, Shaka King, Ornana, John Wilson, Jennifer Reeder, Leah Shore, Colin Healey, Lauren Wolkstein, and Chris Radcliffe The campaign is aiming to raise $28,000 to fund season one and if all goes smoothly, the 10-episode, 10-hour first season will launch in January. Schoenbrun (a contributor to Filmmaker) and McDonnell recently collaborated to create collective : unconscious, an anthology feature film where they […] »
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‘Timeless’ Creators Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan on Their Unique Partnership – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
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Last Week’s Episode: Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Mike Schur and Drew Goddard on Creating ‘The Good Place’ – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
NBC’s new time-travel drama “Timeless” is in good hands.
Eric Kripke (“Revolution,” “Supernatural”) and Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”), successful showrunners in their own right, have teamed together to produce the new series, which launches on Monday in the plum 10 p.m. timeslot behind “The Voice.”
Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter and Malcolm Barrett play the history professor, soldier and scientist who are tasked to go back in time in order to chase a fugitive (Goran Visnjic) bent on changing history. For this edition of IndieWire’s “Turn It On,” we sat down with Kripke and Ryan to learn more about their powerful partnership, and the rules of the show. Also in this edition: Liz Shannon Miller on Comedy Central’s 2011 Roast of Donald Trump, and Ben Travers »
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Ava DuVernay’s ‘The 13th’ Is A Searing Indictment Of The Pervasive Nature Of American Racism & Oppression [Review]
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“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,” it is written in the The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, meant to declare the abolition of slavery. And in Ava DuVernay’s arresting new documentary, “The 13th”— shot somewhat in secret and announced suddenly as the opening night film of the New York Film Festival — the director takes on the fallacy of the amendment and the myth of American freedom for all, specifically zeroing in on the except clause that the United States as a whole has leveraged to uphold enduring forms of slavery ever since.
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