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unusual facts about film making



Dewang Mehta

His interest in film making went back to 1977, when on a vacation in his village he was introduced to celebrated director of the “art cinema genre,” Shyam Benegal.


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48Hours

48Hours is a film-making competition held through 8 major cities in New Zealand; Auckland, Hamilton, Gisborne, Rotorua, Taranaki, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

A Sea Cave Near Lisbon

In 1896, film pioneer R. W. Paul sent his associate Henry Short on a film-making trip to the Iberian Peninsula, with a new lightweight portable camera he had developed.

Alfred Darling

In 1899, on a commission from Charles Urban, he produced the Biokam, a film-making system for amateurs using 17.5mm film.

Bettie de Jong

The film was shown at the Museum of Modern Art for a very long time as an example for dance film-making.

Boris Shumyatsky

Another factor that was turned against Shumyatsky by his opponents: following a visit to the United States, he returned to Moscow with a vision of moving the hub of the film industry to a spot near Odessa, where the climate and geography were similar to those of Hollywood and thus more amenable to year-round film-making.

Candida Royalle

She described her approach to film-making in an interview in the Wendy McElroy 1995 book XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography.

DeeDee Halleck

Her first film, Children Make Movies (1961), was about a film-making project at Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement in Lower Manhattan.

Earl Reginhard

As he accelerated his knowledge in film making, he realized that his heart lied in making movies or to be a part of movies, which are globally appealing; breaking the barriers between Hollywood and Bollywood.

Esmail Koushan

Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi.

False protagonist

It opens with actress Janet Leigh as the main character; however, she is killed partway through the film, making the murder far more unexpected and shocking.

Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema

Lenny Lipton is the author of Independent Filmmaking, The Super 8 Book, and Lipton on Filmmaking, and his articles on films and film making have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Super-8 Filmmaker and American Cinematographer.

Geoffrey Barkas

After the war, Barkas returned to film-making, working for the Rank Organisation making children's films including The Little Ballerina.

Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland

After succeeding to the Dukedom on the death of his father, 11 October 1988, he was noted for planting many trees at Syon House, the Ducal residence at Brentford; for an unsuccessful foray into film-making involving the Duke in front of and behind the camera; for a relationship with Naomi Campbell's mother Valerie; and for excessive and adventurous drug taking.

Holmfirth

Holmfirth was once a centre for pioneering film-making by Bamforth & Co., which later switched to the production of saucy seaside postcards.

Joel Conroy

Margo Harkin (Producer) and Joel Conroy (Director) were awarded Outstanding Achievement in film making for Waveriders at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival.

Kaneto Shindo

According to his son Jiro, Shindo gave up his hobbies of Mahjong, Shogi, and baseball at the age of eighty to concentrate on film-making.

Kat Lehmer

While attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied painting, drawing, and sculpture, Lehmer was inspired by the works of an earlier alumnus, David Lynch, to pursue her interest in film making.

Kelly Asbury

Asbury was born in Beaumont, Texas and attended Lamar University for two years before transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts in 1980, where he studied animation and film making.

Levy Li

During the summer of 2009, Levy completed a digital film making and acting course in New York Film Academy and also learned the art of improvisation through Improv Asylum North End, Boston training center.

London Films

More than forty years after Korda died in January 1956, the company returned to active film-making in 1997 with Morgan Mason as the chief executive.

Muthukulam

Padmarajan who were the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam

Nick Broomfield

This shift in film-making style was also heavily influenced by Broomfield's experience in attempting to release his earlier film Lily Tomlin, which chronicled Tomlin's one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Nils Malmros

However, after viewing François Truffaut's Jules and Jim and reading a film analysis by Klaus Rifbjerg, Malmros became inspired to pursue film making.

Outside Satan

British film critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, saying that "Bruno Dumont's film-making is just so fluent, unnerving, gripping; he is entirely unique".

Patricia Ford

Patricia Ford has also worked in film, making a bit part appearance in the 1999 boxing comedy-drama Play It to the Bone.

Paul Almond

He did similar work in England for the BBC and Associated British Corporation (London) and Granada TV (where he created the ground-breaking documentary Seven Up!) before embarking on a career as a feature-length film-making.

Pauline Amos

Citing Robert Robert Enrico's film version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge as an influential film for her, curiosity with film making and having a close connection with film producer Colin Vaines has enabled new work in films that have been shown in various festivals including the short film festival at Cannes, the most recent being ‘Love Scars’ with Meredith Ostrom.

Pearls and Savages

This prompted Hurley to move into dramatic feature film making with Jungle Woman (1926) and The Hound of the Deep (1926).

Pete Travis

Travis became interested in film-making late in life, inspired by Alan Clarke, Costa Gavras and Frank Capra.

Phenakistoscope

The Special Honorary Joseph Plateau Award, a replica of Plateau's original phenakistiscope, is presented every year to a special guest of the Flanders International Film Festival whose achievements have earned a special and distinct place in the history of international film making.

Pocket Ninjas

The film was intended to be a children's version of The Roller Blade Seven that would showcase Jacksons' "Roller Cam" cinematography and "Zen Film-making" style.

Polonia brothers

Killer piranhas, killer Easter bunnies, haunted houses, trips to Mars, assorted demons, all were covered in the course of several decades of film-making.

Sanjay Khanduri

It was during this period he developed interest in film making and his first breakthrough came as second assistant Director Subhash Ghai in the movie Taal.

Screen Academy Scotland

Both Edinburgh Napier and eca already had established film making courses, Napier's combined photography and film undergraduate BA launched Cannes prizewinner Lynne Ramsay on her journey to film directing.

Simon Willson

September 2007 Willson announced on his Myspace that he's currently learning film making from Godfrey Ho at the Hong Kong Film Academy doing a full-time course in TV and Film Production.

Stephen James Bennett

Recently, he has moved into film making with music videos for Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers and No-Man and has just completed his first narrative film.

Ted V. Mikels

In 2010, Alpha Video released The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels which is a documentary about the film-making career of Mikels directed by Kevin Sean Michaels and narrated by John Waters.

Tire dié

Fernando Birri, born in Santa Fe in 1925, left at the age of 25 for Rome to study film-making at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from 1950 to 1953.

ZGI

The Zaki Gordon Institute, a school for independent film making in Sedona, Arizona