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…
In a year when a lot of people didn’t see as many movies as they might’ve wanted to, the Oscar nominations don’t surprise, but as always, disappoint. Pete Wassell’s on our team in Burbank. Here’s his overview of some of this year’s 9 Best Picture nominees. Lincoln: Excellent. The best thing Steven Spielberg has done…
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…
As the Fall term comes to an end here at IAFT-LA, it coincides with student film projects. As you may or may not know, students in our filmmaking program (either Diploma or Certificate) make their own short films during the term. With the first several weeks spent studying the basics of screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing…
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…
The temperatures may be dropping in southern California as November blows in, but here at IAFT-LA we have some big news that’s sure to heat up the winter months. Get ready to channel your inner filmmaker or actor because we’re rolling out a full schedule of Winter Workshops taking place throughout December and the beginning…
