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Robert Rodriguez-10 Minute Flick School

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 19th, 2007

Found this gem on YouTube, looks to be a DVD special feature from Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In this brief instructional Rodriguez shows us how to make a good action movie for really cheap. This kinda stuff really inspires me to keep going, I would love to meet this guy.
YouTube Link […]

Palo Alto-The Film Goes to Tribeca

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 2nd, 2007

Came across this really interesting story about a 20 year old student from USC that got his movie into Tribeca Film Festival.  He has a blog for the whole filmmaking process, from pre-production right through to post.  The director’s name is Bradley Leong and is originally from California, at least that’s what I heard.  Anyway […]

I came across an interesting article on a website called A Dog’s Breakfast where the author talks about the limited marketing savvy of first time filmmakers.  He speculates that very few first time filmmakers really put much thought into who is the market when they begin writing their script, and just wait until after it […]

Travelling To Denmark

Posted by Emmet Gibney on November 8th, 2006

With my production company Vigor Media I help to manage the content for the Badminton Players Federation website. While this isn’t the most lucrative deal for us it does have it’s perks, including some serious globe trotting. We recently started putting up videos onto the website, which is a really cool new feature […]

My Second Film Released!

Posted by Emmet Gibney on October 11th, 2006

Even though I did withdraw from program, I still want to show you how my second project turned out. I think it went pretty well, but of course from watching it over and over again there are numerous things I picked up on that I would fix the second time around. This project […]

Withdrawal From NYFA

Posted by Emmet Gibney on October 5th, 2006

Yesterday I decided to withdraw from the NYFA.  I came to the realization that anything I can learn here, I can learn on my own with books, and doing my own shooting back home.  There are a few things that the NYFA program offers you that you will have trouble getting on your own.
1: An […]