Your Independent Movie Guide
Interviews
By | January 2001
TK
Do you see a curve or a trajectory of this DV revolution and where it ends? When you'd be satisfied, whether or not it's actually gonna happen, can you...
Geoff Gilmore came to Sundance in 1989 and has been instrumental in the festival's emergence as the number one market for independent films in the United...
What led you to make a film about WACO? ^ A typical fluke. Somebody showed up on my doorstep with demo in hand and pitched me on whether I'd want to do...
Now that the film has been released, has anything changed with regard to the ATF or the media in terms of how they view this event? ^ I think a lot has...
What was the budget and how long did it take you to make it? ^ The budget was about $450,000 and it took a year and a half to make. How did you raise...
Last Days is filmmaker Gus Van Sant’s reflection on the psychological chaos that devours a brilliant but troubled musician in the final hours of his...
When did you start filmmaking and what did you make? I can’t remember – I know it was a Super 8 thing with no sound, but it was just for my own...
Putting the plays of William Shakespeare on film always presented something of a challenge. In the nascent days of the silent movies, American filmmakers...
[ PART II: WHY MAKE YOUR OWN SPIDER-MAN MOVIE? ] [ $400 bucks! That's insane! So, you wrote, directed, starred as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in your own...
[ PART III: SPIDEY'S SPECTACULAR SPECIAL EFFECTS! ] [ What problems did you run into during production in terms of the special effects? ] ^ I ran into...