Hey, welcome back to The Fan Cinema Today Pre-Game Show for the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards Ceremony! Tonight is the big event at the San Diego Comic Con, so now I’ll foolhardily try to guess who will take home the gold, even though I haven’t watched all 41 entries in the contest. Who’s [...]
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Way back in May, I mentioned an article where Trey Stokes, writer / director of the Pink Five fan film series, gave advice on how to take what you’ve learned in the real world and apply it to creating a fan production. Taking things in the opposite direction, now there’s an article where Mark Hildebrand, [...]
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One of James Bond’s greatest enemies is the secret organization SMERSH; in the world of James Bond fan films, however, the biggest opponent is another outfit with a name of initials: MGM. The Hollywood studio struck again Tuesday, as the fan film, Moonraker ’78, was forced off YouTube. Fan filmmaker Stuart Basinger, who produced and [...]
Making a fan film looks easy, but it ain’t. It takes patience, stamina, time, money, actors, equipment and, oh yeah, talent. (And a tripod—how many fan films have you seen where the cameraman coulda been an alcoholic clown with the shakes? You see my point). Once you get all those goodies together, it still takes [...]
I’m hosting a free mini-Star Wars fan film festival, so if you love fan productions and you live in Westchester, c’mon down! MAY THE FAN FILM BE WITH YOU Wednesday, May 7, 7:30PM – 9:00PM Croton Free Library 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY * 914-271-6612 May The Fan Film Be With You will show and [...]
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Y’know, whenever you watch a movie where there’s an author character, the first thing everyone says to him/her is ‘How’s the new book coming?’—and invariably the writer responds with a sigh and a complaint about writer’s block. That never happens in real life, of course—not the writer’s block part, but the people asking how the [...]
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At the recent New York Comic Con, author Timothy Zahn confirmed that his new Star Wars novel, Allegiance, features a “walk-on part” of Stacey, the heroine of the Pink Five fan films. Speaking at the Star Wars: Beyond 30 panel, which Del Rey Publishing held about its various Star Wars books and audio books, Zahn’s [...]
Gray Areas: Women In Fan Films—Where?
Last week’s Gray Areas column covered Paula Peril, a short, original flick starring Valerie Perez, who was the actress and producer behind the fan film Tomb Raider: Tears of the Dragon. However, Perez is an anomally in the fan production world–not because she made the jump to being paid to be in Peril, but rather [...]
The rumors are true: Everyone’s favorite Valley-Girl-in-space, Stacey from the Pink Five fan film trilogy, turns up in the new Star Wars novel, Allegiance, by Timothy Zahn. Since the Pink Five movies present info that alters your perception of the original Star Wars trilogy, Zahn returns the favor, casting a new light on Stacey’s relationship [...]
