By Sebastian Solberg The question I get asked most by aspiring filmmakers is ‘What camera should I buy?”. I hear this constantly. and the amount of times that not having the ‘right’ equipment has stopped someone from bringing their film idea to life is crazy! The truth is, to make great films, you don’t have […]
Thirty five minute documentary by Werner Herzog about the impact on lives when people text while driving.
I recently bloged about a series of extraordinary documentaries about Jaws and the first three Star Wars films. They were made by Jamie Benning because, well because he wanted to see them, and because he kind of could! Embedded above is his doc on Raiders, as awesome as the others. I just want say publically, […]
A trilogy of ‘filmumentaries’ by @jamieSWB AMAZING! Jamie Benning’s Star Wars ‘filmumentaries’ are unofficial. They are all completely non-profit making exercises and are made with respect to copyright and with a genuine affection for the films. First up… Star Wars Begins Star Wars Begins is an unofficial look at the creation of the classic movie […]
Just when you thought DVD chat tracks were as close to experiencing the filmmakers vision asd you could get… editor Jamie Benning makes his FOURTH (!!!!) ‘movie runs in real time BTS made from archive footage’ about one of my top five movies of all time ‘Jaws’. It’s a chat track on steroids! He calls […]
This weekend we held the London Doc Summit and the feedback has been awesome. You can read below. One delegate contacted me about his very first attempt at doc filmmaking, and I said I would share this on the blog. Here’s what he said… ‘Just a quick email to say thank you for this weekend. […]
We recently held the London Doc Summit, which aside from some technical hitches, was a resounding success. One video I wanted to share with you is this excellent TED talk on Crowdfunding, that was brought to my attention by Janey Stephenson (@vegetarianjelly), one of our wonderful delegates. It’s really worth a watch. Onwards and upwards! […]
So we have a shiny new website for The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series – www.GuerillaFilm.com And not to soon too as Gen and Zee in LA have just completed and published the second edition of their Documentary Handbook, bang up to date a crammed with new case studies and expert interviews. The official page […]
‘Without doubt, one of the most uplifting, productive and inspiring weekends I have ever had! Hanna Wise, Filmmaker and Underwater camera OP www.ChinaCakeProductions.com This weekend gone I hosted the first London Documentary Summit, held at Regents College. We were blessed with truly amazing, motivating and expert speakers who shared on a ridiculously wide range of […]
In the run up to the Documentary Summit 2011, we have been showing a ‘Doc Of The Day’ every day on the official site (http://www.documentarysummit.com). The doc today is a fantastic short about the creator of the digital camera, Steven Sasson – at three minutes long, it’s a must watch for anyone who works with […]
There were many influences on me as a very young film maker, but one documentary in particular became the inspiration and genesis for the first feature film I made with Genevieve Jolliffe, ‘The Runner’. Putting it bluntly, this documentary was MY Guerilla Film Makers Handbook. You can see this clearly in the first part of […]
I recorded this podcast ahead of our two day documentary workshop at Ealing Studios on September 4th and 5th, to give you a flavour of some of the insights our delegates will be receiving at the workshop. You can get more information about it and read feedback from past delegates at howtomakeadocumenray.co.uk What’s extraordinary about […]
As the dust settles after the screening of ‘Urban Ghost Story’ on the BBC, I thought I would do a final post to share some stuff that I have had requests for. Above is the ‘making of’ documentary from the DVD. UrThe full 30 pages or so from the latest ‘Guerilla Film Makers Handbook’, about […]
Over the journey of ‘Gone Fishing’, several people became regular contributors along the way – one such person is Simon VanDerSpoel in Australia. He initially made a contribution of £50, then I found out he had made his own doc on spitfires (so we did a podcast), and eventually I ended up hanging out with […]
In the final of our Christmas Podcasts, we have a documentary double bill for you. Last year I interviewed Australian film maker Simon Van Der Spoel about his self funded and very successful doc about Aussie Spitfire Pilots, ‘Spitfire Guardians’ – the trailer is above. Since then it’s been mastered to DVD and you can […]
