This is borderline amazing — according to the Daily Mail, a British woman named Kate Madison was so inspired by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that she decided to film her own prequel…for $40,000. She invested $13,000 of her savings, made a trailer, and raised the rest to film Born Of Hope. Everyone […]
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Born Of Hope brings hope to poor filmmakers worldwide
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Homeless men racing shopping carts down really steep hills
If you’ve got 60-minutes to kill, do it right here watching Murray Siple’s feature-length documentary, Carts of Darkness. Pretty fucking amazing, if you ask me. The documentary takes place in the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, where the filmmaker follows homeless men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport […]
Rooftop Films is getting ready to kick off their 13th year starting this weekend, May 15. Opening night is “This Is What We Mean By Short Films”—a program of dramas, comedies, animations and documentaries that could only be shorts, in an array of tales about people, polar bears and pixel-based adventurers coming together for companionship. […]
