Pete Wassell keeps on rolling with his review of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Life of Pi: I must say, of all the Best Picture nominees this is the one I wanted to see the least, and it had nothing to do with the director, Ang Lee. Brokeback Mountain? Sense and Sensibility? Crouching Tiger Hidden…
Pete Wassell continues his review of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Amour: Michael Haneke makes films that test you. His movies are deliberately paced often with gut-wrenchingly long takes. Amour is no different. The story of two octogenarians living together, until one morning at breakfast Anne, played by Emmanuelle Riva, suffers what turns out to…
Our Pete Wassell continues with his incisive look at this year’s Best Picture nominees. Argo: Ben Affleck is getting better… Tight and tense. Affleck seems to have found his true calling. Directing seems to come naturally to him, and I’m personally glad he has stayed with it. Though flawed, I enjoyed his debut feature Gone…
Our Pete Wassell continues his overview of this year’s 9 Best Picture nominees. Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino does what he does and I love it. A great soundtrack, violence, vengeance, dead slave owners and bigots to the left and the right, and comedy… yes, Django Unchained is very funny. That’s what Tarantino does. He’s a…
Don’t wait an eternity for the so-called right role to come waltzing your way. Instead, write, produce & star in a project that showcases your own special talents! You want to know how? Here’s a sure-fire way to find out how. IAFT cordially invites you to a knock-out 2-hour seminar at our facility in Burbank, and it’s free…
by IAFT Mentor Russell P. Marleau A random conversation here at IAFT about movies we’ve recently seen took an unexpected – and interesting – turn when someone mentioned they liked the recent 2012 Disney film John Carter. It was qualified by an It’s-really-not-that-bad line, which we realize is only needed because the film was a major…
Several weeks back, we had film producer Sean Akers come by the film school to give a talk on crowdfunding. With an extremely well laid-out power-point presentation and lecture, Sean lent his expertise on how to successfully manage a financing campaign on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Finding the money for your project is…
by IAFT/LA Mentor Russell P. Marleau Are you like us here at IAFT-LA this time of year as we get caught up in the slew of high-quality films being released throughout the holidays that vie for our eyeballs – not to mention all the awards to come in early 2013? It seems like the studios constantly…
Awesome news, folks: one of the most affordable films schools in LA just got more affordable! (How do we do this? Even we’re not sure, but we do it.) IAFT-LA has created the 50/50 Scholarship for qualifying students who have their eye on our Diploma or Certificate Filmmaking programs in 2013. What is 50/50, you…
2013 is right around the corner (hard to believe!), and the new year brings with it a brand new term of filmmaking and acting classes at one of the most affordable film schools in Los Angeles. Here at IAFT-LA, the 2013 Diploma Programs in both Filmmaking and Acting kick off in January so there’s no…
