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To celebrate Women's History Month, I bring your attention to a monthly Women in Film Salon run by Seed&Spark producer and founder Emily Best. Rather than belly-ache about the sad state of women in Hollywood, cinematographer Elle Schneider and director Jen McGowan ("Kelly & Cal") pulled together 13 women for an edit-a-thon to create new Wikipedia pages. They whipped out their laptops and wrote  21 entries for women directors or women filmmaker organizations that did not have pages before. They were inspired by Wikipedia edit-a-thons for women artists as well as black women in history to create or strengthen Wikipedia entries about women who are notable but rarely written about. "Wikipedia is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and a huge resource for people searching for women filmmakers, even though very few are listed," wrote Schneider in an...

Festival also unveils finalists for brand new micro-shorts competition

Slamdance Film Festival has selected the documentary, narrative and shorts competition jury members for its upcoming 21st anniversary festival, running in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 23 to Jan. 29.

Narrative feature jury members including filmmaker Todd Looby, trinidad+tobago film festival Creative Director Emilie Upczak, and Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. Documentary jury members are producer-director Josh Leake and filmmakers Paige Williams and Bryan Storkel.

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The jury members for the narrative and animation shorts include actor-filmmaker Sarah Cornell, Blacklist screenwriter Rory Haines and Elle Schneider,...

Indie filmmakers’ biggest obstacle has traditionally been finding funding, but that's beginning to change. Low-cost technology is reducing the price of shooting cinema-quality video and crowdfunding is providing start-up capital. If inspiration is all you need, check out the 5th annual No Budget Film Festival, which runs Nov. 21-23 at several locations around Los Angeles. In addition to the screenings, panels include Filmmaking Life Hacks with experts from 5 Second Films and RocketJump, Hands On Digital Bolex Lesson With Elle Schneider, and wisdom from the producers of “Dear White People,” “Life Partners’ and “Much Ado About Nothing.” Registration information is available here. Other upcoming events for L.A. actors include: Work It! The Festival Scoop From Pros In The KnowNov. 12 at 7 p.m.SAG Foundation LifeRaft Streamed live here. Amfm FestivalNov. 13-16Mary Pickford Theater36850 Pickfair St., Cathedral City, Calif.Click here for schedule and details. How to Score Your FilmNov.

Indie filmmakers’ biggest obstacle has traditionally been finding funding, but that's beginning to change. Low-cost technology is reducing the price of shooting cinema-quality video and crowdfunding is providing start-up capital. If inspiration is all you need, check out the 5th annual No Budget Film Festival, which runs Nov. 21-23 at several locations around Los Angeles. In addition to the screenings, panels include Filmmaking Life Hacks with experts from 5 Second Films and RocketJump, Hands On Digital Bolex Lesson With Elle Schneider, and wisdom from the producers of “Dear White People,” “Life Partners’ and “Much Ado About Nothing.” Registration information is available here. Other upcoming events for L.A. actors include: Work It! The Festival Scoop From Pros In The KnowNov. 12 at 7 p.m.SAG Foundation LifeRaft Streamed live here. Amfm FestivalNov. 13-16Mary Pickford Theater36850 Pickfair St., Cathedral City, Calif.Click here for schedule and details. How to Score Your FilmNov.

Our thanks to Adam Smasher and Soua Her of the Hero Complex Gallery for hosting the memorable opening night of Kings of Cult: An Art Tribute to Roger Corman and Joe Dante. A special shout-out to Tfh's own Chris Condon for his herculean effort in coordinating the efforts of all concerned. Tfh gurus Ernest Dickerson, Mark Goldblatt. Larry Karaszewski, Ed Neumeier, Josh Olson, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Chris Wilkinson and Edgar Wright were part of the packed house. You can view other pictures of the festivities at Shock Till You Drop, Daily Dead and a great selection of Howling werewolves at Geek Tyrant. You can purchase art from the Kings of Cult show here at the Hero Complex site.

Roger Corman closely inspecting the art.

Chris Condon manhandling one of Rob Bottin's original masks for The Howling.

Roger and Joe feverishly signing.

Roger and cinematographer Elle Schneider (That Guy Dick Miller...

At the end of each week, we pinpoint engaging conversations that took place over the past week on Twitter and highlight worthwhile messages from the indie film community. To be clear, there is no defined system for selecting these tweets. There's no ranking system, no winners, no losers. It's merely a very subjective way of saying that these tweets informed, amused, educated or intrigued us. Check 'em out, follow us on Twitter and then join the conversation. So what is it with the industry that kept Mike Cahill and Brit Marling from getting studio offers like Edwards did?— Elle Schneider (@elleschneider) May 23, 2014 What a fun surprise... "Jon Hamm 'shaken and weeping' after watching The Act of Killing on an American Airlines... http://t.co/fluXQEqu4R— Joshua Oppenheimer (@JoshuaOppenheim) May 20, 2014 Perfect setting to sit in dark theaters watching pretentious films, don't you think? #Cannes pic.twitter.com/16qaafNVKw— Thom Powers...

We’ve been covering development of the Digital Bolex camera for a while now. Designed to look like a 16mm camera and meant to simulate a filmic quality, it’s been a buzzed-about piece of technology since a March 2012 Kickstarter to raise funds for manufacture of the first 100 cameras. “I had been frustrated for a really long time that I was never quite able to get the look that I wanted with the cameras that were available to me,” camera co-developer Elle Schneider told Michael Murie in an interview last year. During his Nab new camera roundup last month, David […]...

We’ve been covering development of the Digital Bolex camera for a while now. Designed to look like a 16mm camera and meant to simulate a filmic quality, it’s been a buzzed-about piece of technology since a March 2012 Kickstarter to raise funds for manufacture of the first 100 cameras. “I had been frustrated for a really long time that I was never quite able to get the look that I wanted with the cameras that were available to me,” camera co-developer Elle Schneider told Michael Murie in an interview last year. During his Nab new camera roundup last month, David […]...

The Film, TV & Digital Session at the recent Hacking Arts event focused on film distribution, with panelists Richard Matson from Gathr Films, Adam Mosam from Pivotshare and Albert Reinhardt from Fandor. The panel was moderated by Elle Schneider of Digital Bolex. All three firms are involved with distribution. Pivotshare offers tools to help the filmmaker sell their videos online. Fandor is an online subscription platform that pays its filmmakers a share of its subscription fees. Gathr Films provides an on-demand theatrical experience; a screening of a film can be requested at a local theater, and if enough people buy […]...

The Film, TV & Digital Session at the recent Hacking Arts event focused on film distribution, with panelists Richard Matson from Gathr Films, Adam Mosam from Pivotshare and Albert Reinhardt from Fandor. The panel was moderated by Elle Schneider of Digital Bolex. All three firms are involved with distribution. Pivotshare offers tools to help the filmmaker sell their videos online. Fandor is an online subscription platform that pays its filmmakers a share of its subscription fees. Gathr Films provides an on-demand theatrical experience; a screening of a film can be requested at a local theater, and if enough people buy […]...

Elle Schneider, Creative Director at Digital Bolex, spoke about the project at this weekend’s Hacking Arts conference held at MIT’s Media Lab. The Digital Bolex project, the creation of a digital camera that is operated and styled like a 16mm camera, was funded through a Kickstarter Project. Held in March of 2012, the campaign raised twice the $100,000 goal and pre-sold 93 cameras. Schneider announced that they expect the camera will be available to order in six weeks, and they will ship the original orders even sooner. Schneider, who had an early beta version of the camera with her, talked […]...

Elle Schneider, Creative Director at Digital Bolex, spoke about the project at this weekend’s Hacking Arts conference held at MIT’s Media Lab. The Digital Bolex project, the creation of a digital camera that is operated and styled like a 16mm camera, was funded through a Kickstarter Project. Held in March of 2012, the campaign raised twice the $100,000 goal and pre-sold 93 cameras. Schneider announced that they expect the camera will be available to order in six weeks, and they will ship the original orders even sooner. Schneider, who had an early beta version of the camera with her, talked […]...