Dear Diary: A tent saga
There is progressively less and less space in the office as submissions to the 6th Annual Topanga Film Festival converge from everywhere. Yesterday's offerings came from New Mexico, Sao Paolo, Brazil and Madrid. No doubt, this year's selection will have more of an international flair but now that we've got the films . . . [...]
3D experts engage with 2010 Topanga Film Festival
Two top 3D experts have expressed their support of the Topanga Film Institute and are exploring ways they can best bring knowledge of their aspect of filmmaking and digital artistry to the 2010 Topanga Film Festival. In a year when 3D epic Avatar has broken box office records with studios scurrying to pump out [...]
Topanga Film Festival Facebook Fan page welcomes No. 500
Maria-Gracia Iglessias joins 499 others in celebrating the 6th annual Topanga Film Festival. Welcome Maria-Gracia!
Topangans to rebuild Haitian orphanage leveled by earthquake
Sue and Martin Schmitt, supporters of the Topanga Film Festival since its inception, are currently in Haiti with fellow Topangan Gala Calisto and a handful of others, eagerly awaiting the arrival of geodesic dome components — stuck in customs with an airline carrier in Florida — where they arrived 5 days ago to rebuild their [...]
Topanga filmmaker Tom Miller goes rogue
Topanga Film Festival veteran and local filmmaker Tom Miller shares his experience at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School, which he recently completed.
Institute ready to spread its wings
Topanga Film Institute is gearing up for a year of special events leading up to and following this 2010 Topanga Film Festival. The institute was formed to inspire, inform and interconnect a generation of filmmakers to pioneer a fertile new era of global, trans-format content creation.
A traditional hotbed of [...]
Thinking big, working small
Topanga Film Festival 2010 adds a day to the annual festival while baurhouse plans production of an environmentally-themed documentary, makes a foray into motion picture production, distribution and finance and sets its sights on production of a live and multimedia production of the famed opera, Carmen.
