January 28, 2011

Camera Q&A: Storm Saulter on filming in Jamaica

Who: Storm Saulter is a Jamaica-based filmmaker who grew up in the town of Negril. His first feature film, Better Mus Come, opened in Jamaica this past October but has…..

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January 12, 2011

Camera Q&A: Benji Kohn on Paper Street Films

Who: Benji Kohn co-founded Paper Street Films in 2007 with friends/filmmakers Austin Stark and Bingo Gubelmann. The three have produced five feature-length films over that period, including Werner Herzog’s, My…..

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January 6, 2011

Camera Q&A: Laurie Gunst on Jamaican Films, Music and Gangs

Who: Laurie Gunst is the author of Born Fi’ Dead: A Journey Through The Jamaican Posse Underworld — a history/memoir of Kingston’s outlaw “posse” ranks before and during her visits…..

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January 3, 2011

Camera Q&A: Abel Ferrara on shooting films in New York and Italy

Who: Abel Ferrara is a New York City-based filmmaker who has written and directed several features set/shot in Manhattan. Camera In The Sun spoke with Ferrara for a January 2011…..

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December 10, 2010

Camera Q&A: Anne Rosellini on Winter's Bone & film locations

Who: Anne Rosellini is a New York City-based writer/producer who formerly worked from Seattle, Washington, where she founded the 1 Reel Film Festival in 1996 (now run through the Seattle…..

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November 26, 2010

Camera Q&A: Sterlin Harjo on filming in Oklahoma

Who: Sterlin Harjo is an Oklahoma-based filmmaker who has written/directed several films shot in the state. They include his short film, Goodnight Irene, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film…..

November 12, 2010

Camera Q&A: Chad Burris on financing Oklahoma-shot films

Who: Chad Burris is an Oklahoma-based producer, and the founder of Indion Entertainment Group. His company utilizes tax incentives to finance feature films within Oklahoma, and other states. Burris has…..

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November 12, 2010

Guns and Reggae in '70s Kingston, Jamaica

Cowboy Westerns have long influenced new filmmakers around the world to pick up movie cameras and shoot. But in Kingston during the 1970’s, those same films inspired a number of…..

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September 27, 2010

Camera Q&A: David Schoner on filming in New Jersey

Who: David Schoner is production coordinator for the New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission. He has served as producer on several independent films for New Jersey-based writer/director, Gregory Corrado……

September 17, 2010

Biltmore House, North Carolina

As George Washington Vanderbilt II celebrated his first Christmas at Biltmore House in 1895, it was with the knowledge that he had effectively just given himself the perfect gift for…..