Other Posts by Teague

Where Should You Host Your Videos?

We recently conducted an (unscientific) survey of media professionals to answer the question “Does self-hosting videos on a website make them appear more professional than embedding them from a service such as YouTube or Vimeo?”  Responses fell into three major categories:

“Use a video hosting service.”
A plurality of respondants felt that there is no longer a [...]

Guaranteed Distribution for Indie Films

There’s a new player in the the game for independent film funding.  The New York Times is reporting that DF Indie Studios, based in New York, is open for business.  The new studio plans to finance up to 12 films a year with budgets of up to $10 million.  Mary E. Dickinson, chief executive, and [...]

Shorts from 48HFP:DC

Two weeks ago, we featured a series of interviews with the team leaders of three films entered in the 48 Hour Film Project in DC. Two of these films were selected for a second screening in the Best Of DC series, but all three are now available online for your viewing pleasure. The [...]

Trent Reznor Adds Value for a Good Cause

Stan Schroeder posted a story on Mashable today about Trent Reznor raising over $850.000 for a fan who needs a heart transplant. Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction set up a site to take donations for Eric De La Cruz and offered special gifts and access to the bands for larger donations.
Schroeder’s insights about [...]

Introduction to Getting Your Own Website

Several people have asked me recently about setting up their own website, so I though I would consolidate my explanations here.  When you set up a website, there are several different parts to getting it up and running.  We can think of these in terms of their analogs for setting up a physical place of [...]

Interview with Amanda Hirsch

This is the third and final interview in our series talking with filmmakers who led teams in 48HFP-DC 2009. In our first two interviews we talked with Jasmine Bulin, a first time participant and Ishu Krishna, a long-time veteran. Today we bring you an interview with Amanda Hirsch of CreativeDC, who entered her [...]

Interview with Ishu Krishna

Today is our second in a series of three interviews with team leaders from last weekend’s 48 Hour Film Project in DC.  Yesterday we talked with Jasmine Bulin, a first time 48HFP participant, and today we bring you an interview with a old hand at the 48HFP game, Ishu Krishna.
[Interview edited for clarity.]
Still Indie: Ishu, [...]

Interview with Jasmine Bulin

Last weekend was the 48 Hour Film Project in DC.  This weekend we’re bringing you interviews from several team leaders who participated last weekend.  Our first interview is with first time 48 Hour participant Jasmine Bulin.
Still Indie: So, how did you get involved in the 48 Hour Film Project?
Jasmine Bulin: I heard about the project [...]

Where Do You Get Your News?

Where do you get your news? And what is the quality of that information?
PBS is hosting a project with the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy seeking public feedback on the future of public information gathering and sharing.
At a time when newspapers are struggling and online media is proliferating, the [...]

Happy Earth Day 2009

In honor of Earth Day, we’d like to point you to a couple of our previous articles about green film.  If you know of other resources for decreasing your environmental impact as a filmmaker, let us know in the comments.
Green Film

Slow Food, Slow Film?
Media-making requires a lot of resources.  What can you can do to [...]