Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same name.
Anthropology Materials
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Victor Solomon
The Lovemakers
Faux Fox
Dan Rhodes
A Fine [...]
Anthropology (2008)
Victor Solomon’s Anthropology series of films adapted from Anthropology, a book of short stories by Dan Rhodes.
Jossie Malis joins us to discuss the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine, which explore the ever problematic universal issues of power, corruption and religion.
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Zumbakamera
Bendito Machine
Shadow Play
Adobe FreeHand
Adobe Flash
AWN’s “Best of the Web” Showcase 2007
Bendito Machine (2006)
A primitive tale about power, corruption, religion and machines; as usual.
Director Tomas Leach joins us to discuss his feature documentary All The Drunken Horsemen, which saw him travel to the isolated Mayan town of Todos Santos in the mountains of Guatemala to capture the preparations for its legendary annual drunken horse race.
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Tomas Leach
3 Minute Wonders
FourDocs
Fabrica
All The Drunken Horsemen (2007)
High in the mountains of Guatemala lies the small Mayan town of Todos Santos. Each year, on November 1st the town celebrates its legendary drunken horse race.
This film follows Ramon as he prepares to race on the town’s holy day for the first time. He follows 9 days of prayer, preparation [...]
It’s MarBelle Short of the Week rotation time again and I feel I’ve outdone myself with the find that is I Love Sarah Jane - OK, El Vez actually found it and dropped me an email but I’m taking all the credit as usual! Now just got to convince director Spencer Susser to come on [...]
This week we’re joined by Scott Keiner whose career has seen him direct TV pilots, music videos for bands such as OK Go and the recent short Sizzlean, which is a prequel to the complete feature script of the same name penned by Scott.
Sizzlean will be screening in the Cannes short film corner 20th - [...]
Sizzlean (2008)
In a time when the world is emptied out, and only a few lost souls remain, a group of children sets out on a quest. Led by the Pirate Sizzlean, and the Captain who tells him what to dream, the children are on a quest most hope never to face, for these children [...]
A Gift for Dickie is an ambitious and inspiring project, which aims to provide the legend that is Richard (Dickie) Attenborough with the funds needed to make the film of his dreams (What is the Film Project?).