French director Laurent Cantet, whose films include Human Resources, Heading South, The Workshop and his Palme d’Or-winning The Class, died today at the age of 63. With this sad news we are reposting Brandon Harris’s interview with Cantet about The Class from our Spring, 2008 print edition. — Editor Starting with 1999’s Human Resources, Laurent Cantet has quickly built an international reputation as France’s most socially engaged narrative filmmaker, crafting films that highlight the ever lingering issues of race and class in both France and, as in the case of his 2006 film Heading South, its former colony of Haiti. With […]
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- 4/25/2024
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
French director Laurent Cantet, whose films include Human Resources, Heading South, The Workshop and his Palme d’Or-winning The Class, died today at the age of 63. With this sad news we are reposting Brandon Harris’s interview with Cantet about The Class from our Spring, 2008 print edition. — Editor Starting with 1999’s Human Resources, Laurent Cantet has quickly built an international reputation as France’s most socially engaged narrative filmmaker, crafting films that highlight the ever lingering issues of race and class in both France and, as in the case of his 2006 film Heading South, its former colony of Haiti. With […]
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- 4/25/2024
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Shaquille O’Neal is launching a podcast network.
The NBA legend and NBA on TNT studio analyst is partnering with the sports entertainment company Playmaker HQ to launch The Big Podcast Network, which he hopes will serve as an incubator for athletes and other content creators to launch shows based in the world of sports, business and entertainment. Shaq’s Jersey Legends Productions will also produce the podcasts in the network.
The first show on the network will be a new edition of Shaq’s The Big Podcast, which previously was produced and distributed by Wbd Sports. The new version of the podcast will see Shaq pair up with fellow TNT Inside the NBA host Adam Lefkoe and Playmaker HQ producer Shaine Freeman.
New episodes will run through the remainder of the NBA season and be available on The Big Podcast Network YouTube channel, Wbd’s Bleacher Report, Max and on...
The NBA legend and NBA on TNT studio analyst is partnering with the sports entertainment company Playmaker HQ to launch The Big Podcast Network, which he hopes will serve as an incubator for athletes and other content creators to launch shows based in the world of sports, business and entertainment. Shaq’s Jersey Legends Productions will also produce the podcasts in the network.
The first show on the network will be a new edition of Shaq’s The Big Podcast, which previously was produced and distributed by Wbd Sports. The new version of the podcast will see Shaq pair up with fellow TNT Inside the NBA host Adam Lefkoe and Playmaker HQ producer Shaine Freeman.
New episodes will run through the remainder of the NBA season and be available on The Big Podcast Network YouTube channel, Wbd’s Bleacher Report, Max and on...
- 12/21/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Updated with Daytime Creative Arts Emmy winners: General Hospital won outstanding drama while Kelly Clarkson won for best talk show host and best talk show at the 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, held Friday in Los Angeles.
Adding in Saturday’s Creative Arts portion of the Daytime Emmys, Gh won a leading seven Emmys this weekend. The Kelly Clarkson Show won six to lead all talk shows.
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner hosted Friday’s show that honored Susan Lucci with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Jennifer Nettles performed the Emmy-winning song “Life is Sweet” for the In Memoriam segment that said goodbye to the likes of Jacklyn Zeman, Billy Miller and Bob Barker.
A posthumous Emmy was given to Sonya Eddy, the General Hospital actress who died last summer at the age of 55.
Below are the winners of the Daytime Emmys, with the list of Daytime Creative Arts Emmy winners following.
Adding in Saturday’s Creative Arts portion of the Daytime Emmys, Gh won a leading seven Emmys this weekend. The Kelly Clarkson Show won six to lead all talk shows.
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner hosted Friday’s show that honored Susan Lucci with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Jennifer Nettles performed the Emmy-winning song “Life is Sweet” for the In Memoriam segment that said goodbye to the likes of Jacklyn Zeman, Billy Miller and Bob Barker.
A posthumous Emmy was given to Sonya Eddy, the General Hospital actress who died last summer at the age of 55.
Below are the winners of the Daytime Emmys, with the list of Daytime Creative Arts Emmy winners following.
- 12/17/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
“General Hospital” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show” were the big winners at the 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which were handed out on Friday night in Los Angeles. Veteran daytime-drama actress Susan Lucci, once famous for being nominated for a Daytime Emmy 19 times before she finally won, received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
“General Hospital” was named Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and also won awards for its directing and for actors Sonya Eddy (who received her award posthumously), Robert Gossett, Eden McCoy and former “Wonder Years” star Alley Mills.
The other two daytime acting awards went to Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Thorsten Kaye from “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Kaye won his first Emmy in his seventh nomination.
“The Kelly Clarkson Show” won the award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series, while Clarkson won in the Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host category.
“Entertainment Tonight” was named Outstanding Entertainment News Series.
The show...
“General Hospital” was named Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and also won awards for its directing and for actors Sonya Eddy (who received her award posthumously), Robert Gossett, Eden McCoy and former “Wonder Years” star Alley Mills.
The other two daytime acting awards went to Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Thorsten Kaye from “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Kaye won his first Emmy in his seventh nomination.
“The Kelly Clarkson Show” won the award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series, while Clarkson won in the Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host category.
“Entertainment Tonight” was named Outstanding Entertainment News Series.
The show...
- 12/16/2023
- by Ross A. Lincoln, Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Pittsburg-based director Charlotte Glynn, who made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces in 2014, is now running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for her debut narrative feature, The Gymnast. The film, which was actually discussed at the end of Brandon Harris’s profile, is set in a former mill town and is about “a 14-year-old aspiring Olympic gymnast and her die-hard ‘gym dad’ [who] must reinvent themselves after a potentially career-ending injury.” Elaborates Glynn on the Kickstarter page: The Gymnast is a film about loss and perseverance in the face of extreme odds, and the making of the film has mirrored that […]
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- 7/7/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Pittsburg-based director Charlotte Glynn, who made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces in 2014, is now running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for her debut narrative feature, The Gymnast. The film, which was actually discussed at the end of Brandon Harris’s profile, is set in a former mill town and is about “a 14-year-old aspiring Olympic gymnast and her die-hard ‘gym dad’ [who] must reinvent themselves after a potentially career-ending injury.” Elaborates Glynn on the Kickstarter page: The Gymnast is a film about loss and perseverance in the face of extreme odds, and the making of the film has mirrored that […]
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- 7/7/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Brandon Harris—an educator, programmer, author, producer, director, executive as well as a longtime contributing editor at Filmmaker—has curated a series at Metrograph in commemoration of Black History Month. Entitled “Strange Fruit,” the series features an impressive slate of titles spanning several decades, from Pierre Chenal’s black and white Argentine drama Native Son to Billy Woodberry’s seminal L.A. Rebellion film Bless Their Little Hearts. The opening night selection, which played on Sunday, February 5, was Elvis Mitchell’s NYFF-premiering essay film Is That Black Enough for You?!? Several special screenings have also been programmed, including Del Lord’s 1927 silent film Topsy and Eva […]
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- 2/9/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Brandon Harris—an educator, programmer, author, producer, director, executive as well as a longtime contributing editor at Filmmaker—has curated a series at Metrograph in commemoration of Black History Month. Entitled “Strange Fruit,” the series features an impressive slate of titles spanning several decades, from Pierre Chenal’s black and white Argentine drama Native Son to Billy Woodberry’s seminal L.A. Rebellion film Bless Their Little Hearts. The opening night selection, which played on Sunday, February 5, was Elvis Mitchell’s NYFF-premiering essay film Is That Black Enough for You?!? Several special screenings have also been programmed, including Del Lord’s 1927 silent film Topsy and Eva […]
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- 2/9/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Brandon Harris' Redlegs (his feature film debut), a Kickstarter-funded project featured right here last spring, is now available on home video (DVD), courtesy of FilmBuff. Long-time readers of S&A will recall 2 of Brandon's short films which were highlighted on this site - his short erotic thriller Evangeleo. and Happiness is No Fun (a "black" spoof of Godard's Breathless). His feature debut, Redlegs, as described, is "a comedic drama set amongst grieving twenty-something man-boys in the industrial Midwest who's black friend was recently murdered in a historically troubled part of Cincinnati, Ohio." It's a film I've yet to see, so can't offer any...
- 10/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Directly following a week of Sundance announcements, the Slamdance Film Festival, which takes place in Park City between January 18 to 24, has revealed its competition lineup. The narrative competition features films from five different countries — including, interestingly, three from Germany — and the film that I will definitely try to catch from that strand is Nadia Szold’s Joy de V., which stars both Evan Louison (the lead in Filmmaker contributor Brandon Harris’ feature debut Redlegs) and the legendary Claudia Cardinale. In the doc section, Where I Am (whose logline reads, “The courageous story of Gay American writer Robert Drake and his …...
- 12/5/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While in Cannes I bumped into critic and programmer Aaron Hillis, who told me about the new Brooklyn-based endeavor he’ll be starting upon returning home — running a video store. Hillis, who already programs reRun, the independent cinema and gastropub located in Filmmaker’s building in Dumbo (and currently playing Contributing Editor Brandon Harris’s debut feature, Redlegs), recently bought the established Cobble Hill business Video Free Brooklyn. At a time when the independent film world is obsessed with VOD, downloads and streaming, Hillis is time-traveling back to the world of plastic cases, late fees, and, on the more positive side, savvy clerks who know you, your tastes, and are vocal in their recommendations. I’ll let him fill you in on the rest.
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
- 5/28/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For his micro-budget debut feature Redlegs, which resides comfortably alongside work by Aaron Katz (Quiet City) or Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) both tonally and dramatically, Filmmaker magazine contributing editor Brandon Harris (with whom I share this column) returned to his hometown of Cincinnati with three actors and a tiny crew hoping to dramatize the moment when childhood camaraderie dissolves in the face of adult realities and overdue reckonings. Very loosely modeled after John Cassavetes’ Husbands, the film trails three young men — brooding ex-actor Marco (Nathan Ramos), sensitive Willie (Evan Louison), and aggressively obnoxious parking-lot owner Aaron (Andrew Katz) — over the course of a long, aimless weekend as they bitch, argue, get high, and wander through town. Having been reunited after the murder of Ricky, a close friend whose absence overshadows their low-key collegial misadventures, the argumentative trio cope by revisiting some of their old stomping grounds and try,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Following a night of short films and a video installation "Green|Red" displayed under the Manhattan Bridge, Scene:Brooklyn took over Dumbo's reRun Gastropub Theater for a special preview screening of Brandon Harris' "Redlegs," a feature following a trio of childhood friends brought together after the murder of another chum. Harris, a regular editor/critic for Filmmaker Magazine and occasional cohort of The Playlist (here he chats with the eternal New Yorker Abel Ferrara), raised the appropriate funds on Kickstarter and ventured to his stomping grounds of Cincinnati to create his debut comedy-drama.
Ohio homebodies Aaron and Wilbur meet Marco, someone they've been out of touch with for a substantial amount of time, at the train station en route to the recently deceased Ricky's funeral processions. It's revealed that Marco had abruptly quit urban life to get his hands dirty in the country, a decision that still stings those he had abandoned (namely,...
Ohio homebodies Aaron and Wilbur meet Marco, someone they've been out of touch with for a substantial amount of time, at the train station en route to the recently deceased Ricky's funeral processions. It's revealed that Marco had abruptly quit urban life to get his hands dirty in the country, a decision that still stings those he had abandoned (namely,...
- 5/6/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
With the doors of the Tribeca Film Festival already closed, what are New York cinephiles to do in the long stretch of time between the next iteration of the Brooklyn or New York Film Festival? Well, they can certainly wet their whistle at Scene:Brooklyn, an independent film and media arts series put on by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Containing dozens of shorts, features (including "The Iran Job" by Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi and "Redlegs" by Brandon Harris), and other presentations/masterclasses, there's plenty to chew on to keep the festival spirit going. Running from May 2-6 (check out the events here), the series kicked off with "Brooklyn In Brief," a collection of over fifteen shorts broken up into two sets: 8 narrative and 7 documentaries.
Those who can barely stomach the generic micro-budget template will be happy to know that the burgeoning filmmakers represented here are aiming higher. Michael Tyburski's "Angelfish" follows a somewhat shy,...
Those who can barely stomach the generic micro-budget template will be happy to know that the burgeoning filmmakers represented here are aiming higher. Michael Tyburski's "Angelfish" follows a somewhat shy,...
- 5/4/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
Over the last year Filmmaker Contributing Editor Brandon Harris has been making his first feature, Redlegs, and it receives a sneak preview next Thursday at Brooklyn’s reRun, sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. It then opens for a week on May 25 at that same venue. Check out the trailer below. (There’s also a Tumblr blog, where Harris is promising “goofy, poignant and otherwise unmissable stuff.”)
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- 4/26/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I’ve been wanting to do this for some time – a periodically (maybe annually) updated list of up-and-coming black filmmakers, especially those working mostly outside the mainstream; something we could call “black filmmakers to watch,” preceded by a year, not-so unlike Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
- 7/9/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
If you are in New York tonight and are interested in the independent film blogosphere, you might want to attend the world premiere of Sujewa Ekanayake's Indie Film Blogger Road Trip. It screens at the Anthology at 8:00pm, and it features interviews with a whole host of online film journalists, including Filmmaker contributors Anthony Kaufman and Brandon Harris. Ekanayake and several of the bloggers from the film will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
- 2/17/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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