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36 - INDIE FILM BLOGGER ROAD TRIP
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip is a feature length documentary film about people who blog about independent movies, the scene/industry, and related matters. IFBRT was shot, directed, and edited by indie filmmaker & blogger Sujewa Ekanayake.:: Indie Film Blogger Road Trip Copyright 2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films
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About Indie Film Blogger Road Trip
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip features: Anthony Kaufman (indieWIRE, Village Voice, Anthony Kaufman's blog), Brandon Harris (Cinema Echo Chamber, Hammer to Nail, Spout, Filmmaker Magazine), Stu VanAirsdale (The Reeler, Defamer), Melissa Silverstein (Women and Hollywood), Erica Ginsberg (Docs In Progress, Docs Interactive), Chuck Tryon (The Chutry Experiment, Newcritics, Fayetteville State University), Gabe Wardell (Atlanta Film Festival, Gabe's Declaration of Principles, ATL 365 blog), Paula Martinez (Atlanta Film Festival, Paula's After Thoughts), Tambay Obenson (The Obenson Report, Beautiful Things), Noralil Ryan Fores (ShortEnd Magazine), Armando Valle (Horror 101, Armando Valle blog), KJ Mohr (National Museum of Women in the Arts, My World Bank Lunches), and Brian Geldin (The Film Panel Notetaker). Film was produced, directed, videotaped, edited by Sujewa Ekanayake, and features music by Kevin MacLeod. Indie Film Blogger Road Trip is a warm, multi-faceted, reflective introduction to - and a celebration of - a young, influential 21st century creative community.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip now available to view from Atlanta Film Festival's site
- Sujewa
Monday, April 13, 2009
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip on Blip.TV - Episode 1: Visiting Obenson & Harris in Brooklyn
Or go directly to the Blip.TV's Indie Film Blogger Road Trip page!
(i am not crazy about how blip's flash conversion is creating some artifacts/blur when subjects move, so, perhaps vimeo or another site will offer better image quality, further research necessary)
- Sujewa
Monday, March 30, 2009
IFBRT director in Atlanta on 4/18 for a discussion on film criticism
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Distribution update
Friday, February 20, 2009
IFBRT on Blip.tv starting near mid-2009
Photos from World Premiere in NYC!
Notes on IFBRT premiere at One Way Community blog
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
World Premiere of Indie Film Blogger Road Trip on 2/17 in NYC!
World Premiere
Tuesday February 17, 2009
8 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(map/directions, Subway directions: F & V trains to 2nd Avenue, walk two blocks North on 2nd Avenue to 2nd Street. #6 to Bleecker St., walk one block North on Lafayette, two blocks East on Bond St. (turns into 2nd St.) to 2nd Avenue. Bus directions: M15 to 3rd Street)
* For event info. contact Sujewa Ekanayake at wilddiner@aol.com or
240-354-3394, and get updates regarding the event at:
http://indiefilmbloggersmovie.blogspot.com/
$9 ($6 for Anthology members)
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Indie Film Blogger Road Trip description:
In the feature length documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip independent filmmaker & blogger Sujewa Ekanayake (Date Number One, DIY Filmmaker Sujewa blog) travels to several U.S. East Coast cities in the Summer of 2008 and discusses the thriving world of indie film journalism on the web, related Internet writings & other matters relevant to the indie film community with over a dozen bloggers who write about indie film and or media professionals who rely on indie film blogs to accomplish their daily work. Subjects discussed in the film include: professional development and breakthroughs as film journalists, the intersection of race and indie filmmaking, the role blogs play in keeping indie film fans & writers who do not live in major cities connected to the scene, several takes on the amount of participation by women in both the indie filmmaking world & indie film blogging world, debates regarding the value of blogs when compared to traditional/print media reviews and articles, the effect of digital production on minority filmmaking, several view points on whether the indie film blog world is an actual community in a traditional sense, motivations for blogging about indie films, benefits of blogging about indie films, difficulties involved in being an independent blogger or journalist, questions and many answers regarding whether blogs are ultimately a positive thing or a negative thing for the indie film world, promotional & distribution strategies adopted by makers of independent horror movies, the role blogs play in supporting work done by media production organizations, screening events, film festivals, and museums, what the near future may hold for both indie filmmakers and indie film bloggers.
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip features: Anthony Kaufman (indieWIRE, Village Voice, Anthony Kaufman's blog), Brandon Harris (Cinema Echo Chamber, Hammer to Nail, Spout, Filmmaker Magazine), Stu VanAirsdale (The Reeler, Defamer), Melissa Silverstein (Women and Hollywood), Erica Ginsberg (Docs In Progress, Docs Interactive), Chuck Tryon (The Chutry Experiment, Newcritics, Fayetteville State University), Gabe Wardell (Atlanta Film Festival, Gabe's Declaration of Principles, ATL 365 blog), Paula Martinez (Atlanta Film Festival, Paula's After Thoughts), Tambay Obenson (The Obenson Report, Beautiful Things), Noralil Ryan Fores (ShortEnd Magazine), Armando Valle (Horror 101, Armando Valle blog), KJ Mohr (National Museum of Women in the Arts, My World Bank Lunches), and Brian Geldin (The Film Panel Notetaker). Film was produced, directed, videotaped, edited by Sujewa Ekanayake, and features music by Kevin MacLeod. Indie Film Blogger Road Trip is a warm, multi-faceted, reflective introduction to - and a celebration of - a young, influential 21st century creative community.
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Director & several bloggers featured in the film will attend the screening. There will be a brief Q & A session/discussion following the screening.
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Media & Event Management Contact: Sujewa Ekanayake (wilddiner@aol.com, 240-354-3394)
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:. To see the opening 9 minutes of the film visit this YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW70Y8My8Kc
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Indie Film Blogger Road Trip website & blog: http://indiefilmbloggersmovie.blogspot.com/
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Indie Film Blogger Road Trip Copyright 2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films
Recent mentions of IFBRT & its 2/17 premiere
Week of Wonders
Black Box Office
The Film Panel Notetaker
more links coming after 2/17
Talking about IFBRT on The Obenson Report podcast
Sunday, February 8, 2009
IFBRT director on a podcast Mon 2/9 at 8 PM
UPDATE: And here's the official post re: the podcast show at The Obenson Report.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Some film festival directors vs. IFBRT featured blogger Tambay Obenson
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Some big & interesting festival related IFBRT news soon
- Sujewa
Monday, February 2, 2009
The Daily mentions IFBRT premiere
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A 2nd US screening of IFBRT is in the works
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Will be on Obenson Report podcast discussing IFBRT on 2/9
Saturday, January 24, 2009
IFBRT & film festivals
1 - if a festival is interested in taking a look at IFBRT then they can contact me,
2 - if I think the festival will be useful for IFBRT I will send them a screener DVD,
3 - if the festival wants to program IFBRT then I will pay the submission fee, fill out the paperwork, etc. (unless the submission fee is waived, which would be good)
4 - when IFBRT screens at a fest I will promote the event through my blogs & other available means, and also will try to attend the screening if at all possible
This approach is slightly different than the typical way indie filmmakers deal with festivals. Usually it is a gamble - filmmakers pay the submission fee, fill out the paperwork, mail in a screener DVD & hope that the festival accepts the film. Since I am a DIY/self-distributing filmmaker I do not have to take that route (so far I've produced or co-produced close to 50 screenings of my movies - in Maryland, Washington, D.C., New York City, Seattle - playing the films to over 2000 audience members). And I am totally comfortable with releasing films - both at theatrical screenings & on home use formats - w/out any festival play, if need be.
However, IFBRT would be a good film to screen at festivals, if we can work out a mutually beneficial arrangement, as described at top.
- Sujewa
Monday, January 19, 2009
Kevin B. Lee will introduce the doc on 2/17 :: new poster for the event
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Also, pictured above is the new poster for the 2/17 premiere - UPDATED 1/21 at 1:16 AM w/ final version of the poster.
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1:52 PM 1/19 UPDATE: The Obenson Report mentions the 2/17 screening - thanks Tambay!
IFBRT's opening 9 minutes on Internet Archive
Friday, January 9, 2009
Blogger doc premiere mentions from around the web
The Chutry Experiment mentioned it recently also, thanks Chuck!
Same at One Way Community blog. Thanks Princeton!
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If the event gets mentioned at your blog or site, let me know, will link to it from here. Here's the page with all the info. on the event. Thanks!
- Sujewa
Friday, December 26, 2008
How many indie film blogs & indie film info/news/review/opinion sites are there?
This was a question that came up often while I was making Indie Film Blogger Road Trip. My guess is that there are several hundred to several thousand sites that I would consider indie film blogs or perform the same function - offer news, opinion, reviews, etc. re: indie film & related matters. So let's take a few days, scan the interwebz, & see if we can figure out how many indie film blogs - roughly - there may be. I am going to limit this list to blogs & sites written in English (since that's what I can read well) and I'll probably skip most blogs & sites set up to promote just one movie - unless such sites also talk about indie film stuff in general. Post your suggestions in the comments section, will check 'em out & add them to the list. I'll probably build the links list until early to mid January.
2/6/09 2:29 AM UPDATE: 133 sites linked, off to promote IFBRT screening & release DNO DVD & make the Brooklyn comedy, will update the list throughout the year as time permits. 1/7/09 3:11 PM UPDATE: adding some new links, will re-number the list later this week. :: 1/1/09 1:35 AM UPDATE: 128 blogs listed & linked! 12/29/08 - 10:57 PM UPDATE: 104 blogs listed & linked (a lot more links - dozens, maybe even hundreds, coming in early January!) Older Updates: 12/26/08, 10:25 PM UPDATE: - Got 69 blogs & sites listed & linked. :: 12/28/08, 12:13 AM UPDATE: - got 85 blogs linked :: 12/28/08, 10:34 PM UPDATE: - 99 blogs listed & linked
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INDIE FILMS BLOGS & BLOGESQUE SITES - A LINKS LIST
a work in progress from late december 2008 to mid january 2009
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1- Action! Jackson
3-All About Indie Filmmaking
4 - All These Wonderful Things
5 - Alternative Film Guide
6- anonymous insider
7 - Anthony Kaufman's blog
8 - Arbogast on Film
9-Armando Valle
10 - Around the Block: Doug Block's Doc Blog
11 - The Art of Memory
12 - ArtForum/Film
13 - Atlanta Film Festival Blog
14 - The Auteurs' Notebook
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15 -B-Scene Films
16 - The Back Row Manifesto
17 - Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film
18 - Beyond Mumblecore
19 - Salon's Beyond the Multiplex
20 - Boredom at Its Boredest
21 - Brian Flemming's Weblog
22 - Bright Lights After Dark
23 - Bright Lights Film Journal
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24 - Carnivalesque Films blog
25 - The Chutry Experiment
26 - Cinema Echo Chamber
27 - CinemaTech
28 - Cinematical
30-The Circuit
31 - Criterion blog
32- Cynematik
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33-The Daily [at] IFC.com by David Hudson
34-Davekehr.com
35 - The Documentary Blog
36-Digital Independence
37 - DIY Days
38 - DIY Filmmaker Sujewa
39 - Doc It Out
40 -Docs Interactive
42-Docu-Blog/Steve's POV
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43 -Enzian Theater
44 - Everything Else Is Rim Light
45 - eugonline
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46 -Film Essent
47 - Film Independent
48 - Film Independent filmmaker blogs
49 -Film of the Month Club
50 - FilmInFocus
51-A Filmmaker's Life
52 - Filmmaker Magazine blog
53 - The Film Panel Notetaker
54 - Friends Are My Art Form
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55- Gabe's Declaration of Principles
56-Good Small Films
57 - GreenCine Daily
59 -Guardian Film Blog
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60 - Hammer To Nail
61- HD For Indies
62 - Hollywood Is Talking
63 -Horror 101
64 -The House Next Door
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65 - The Independent
66-Independent Film Blog
67-The Independent Eye/IFC blog
68-Indie Features
69-Indie Film Blog
70 - indieWIRE
71 - indieWIRE blogs page
72-iW Insider
73-Info Wants To Be Free
74 - infinicine
75 - The Inside Skinny
77-Invisible Woman...Black Cinema At LARGE
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78-J.D. Ashcraft's Blog
81-JonathanRosenbaum.com
82-Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog
83-johnaugust.com
85-King Blog
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89-The Lost Boy
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90-Making Movies In Flyover Country
91- Matt Dentler's Blog
92-Michael in Sao Paulo
93-Movie City Indie
94-Movie Marketing Blog
95-MYFILM "Independent Film News"
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96-New Breed
98-New York Movie Reviews - Village Voice
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99-100 Films
100-The Obenson Report
101-Observations on film art and Film Art
102 - One Way Community
103 -Out of Focus
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106-Pullquote
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107-The Rabbi Report
108-The Real Indie Film News Blog
109- Reel Artsy
110- The Reeler
111-Reverse Shot
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112- The Scandy Factory
113-Screen Rush
114- The Screengrab
115- Self-Reliant Film
116- Shooting Down Pictures
117- Shooting People: Shooting From The Hip
118- ShortEnd Magazine
119 - SoCalFilm Group
120-Some Came Running
121 - Spout
122- Spout blog
123-SpringBoardMedia
124- Steady Diet of Film blog
125-Steven Rosen
126- Still in Motion
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127 - Truly Free Film
128 - TrustMovies
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129-The Ugly Betty Blog
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W
130 -Week of Wonders
131-WendyWIRE
132-Women & Hollywood
133- Workbook Project
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Y
Z
OTHER - New blogs, & or mostly Hollywood stuff/some indie stuff blogs, etc. - not counted in the indie film blogs list above, but linked (might be of interest to people interested in indie film blogs):
MORE LINKS COMING SOON
Saturday, December 20, 2008
And here's the opening 9 minutes & its official description!
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In this 9 minute segment from Sujewa Ekanayake's documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip we see: Anthony Kaufman talk about the moment when he knew he would "make it" as a professional film journalist, Sujewa Ekanayake introduce the documentary, and Tambay Obenson speak about the community that one becomes a part of by blogging and how that community and blogging has helped him develop his career as a filmmaker. Music by Kevin MacLeod. The full 95 minute documentary will be available at screenings and on DVD in 2009. For more information and news about the project please visit: http://indiefilmbloggersmovie.blogspot.com/
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip was produced, directed, videotaped, and edited by Sujewa Ekanayake. Indie Film Blogger Road Trip Copyright 2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films.
Filmmaker Magazine blog, The Chutry Experiment & others mention the 9 minute clip from the doc
Chuck Tryon, who is one of the subjects of the doc, mentioned the clip here. Thanks Chuck!
UPDATE - 9 PM:
GreenCine Daily also mentioned the clip, check it out here. Thanks David!
And Tambay Obenson (one of the bloggers featured in the clip) of The Obenson Report fame mentioned the clip - Thanks Tambay!
UPDATE - 12/21 Sunday:
The Film Panel Notetaker - another blogger featured in the doc - mentions the 9 min. clip. Thanks Brian!
Hollywood Is Talking talked a little bit about the clip at this post. Thanks JB!
One Way Community blog embedded the clip, thanks Princeton!
UPDATE - 12/22 Mon:
Movie City Indie mentions the clip & embeds it - Thanksalot!
Also found out today that All These Wonderful Things blog mentioned the clip in the Nonfiction Headlines section recently. Thanks AJ!
UPDATE - 1/15/09 Thu:
Slant Eye For The Round Eye mentioned the doc & embedded the 9 min. clip back in late December. Thanks S.I.F.T.R.E!
- Sujewa
Friday, December 19, 2008
Opening 9 minutes of Indie Film Blogger Road Trip is up on the web!
- Sujewa
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
ShortEnd Magazine writes about Indie Film Blogger Road Trip
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Several new & exciting links: IMDb! Spout interview! Obenson & Geldin see the doc!
- Internet Movie Database has a page for Indie Film Blogger Road Trip up now, with links to pages for each of the bloggers - check it out!
- Spout blog interviewed me about my media consumption habits - the doc is mentioned well in the intro - here it is: "His newest film, Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, brings him into the homes and working spaces of 14 film bloggers and is perhaps the first extended meditation on the impact, limitations and peculiarities of the film blogosphere to date."
- Tambay Obenson saw the doc this weekend & mentioned it at a podcast
- Brian "The Film Panel Notetaker" Geldin also saw the doc this weekend & he wrote about it
A big thanks goes out to everyone who took the time to check out the movie & mention it to others, to IMDb, and to Brandon Harris who interviewed me for Spout. It was a busy weekend for IFBRT press & we hope for more of the same in the future.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Updates: another screener to atlanta, The List in the works, watching the doc with bloggers
- am working on creating an INDIE FILM PEOPLE, EVENTS & THINGS MENTIONED & OR DISCUSSED IN INDIE FILM BLOGGER ROAD TRIP list; to keep it short, we'll just refer to this item as The List. I think this list will have both reference (people can look up @ which point in the doc a blog, blogger, or an event is discussed in the doc) & historical value (a list of things that we talked about when we talked about indie film blogs & related matters in summer '08). also promotional value - i'll link to blogs & sites, related articles & posts, from the list. hopefully i'll have this list done soon
- also a tentative doc watching hang out session is scheduled for early Dec. in nyc - for one of the bloggers featured in the doc. i am sure quite a few of these movie watching hang out events will happen in the coming months - will have pics or notes when they do. we almost had one such event happen in late October in Brooklyn, but due to my work/day job schedule & other factors that was cancelled. however, like they say in Lithuania, nov. & december is another story.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Submitted the doc to SXSW, IMDb
Also submitted the movie to SXSW '09 today. If the flick gets in, it would be a great reason to take a trip to Austin. If not, I can still feel good about supporting SXSW - an arts event - a little w/ my submission fee.
More submissions & screener mailings in the coming days.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
1st reaction to IFBRT is up!
"At the same time, Sujewa is attentive to the various ways that all of his interviewees are invested in blogging as an activity, even if, as Anthony Kaufman confesses at one point, we don’t always like doing it or like what it has done to film and entertainment journalism. Other bloggers complicate the perception that the indie film community is a completely inclusive, utopian space. As Judy Wajcman observes in her excellent book, TechnoFeminism, “networks create not merely insiders, but also outsiders, the partially enrolled, and those who refuse to be enrolled” (42-43). Melissa Silverstein, for example, took the time to challenge the “all boys club” tendency of many blogging communities, while Armando Valle pointed out that indie festivals often have less room for genre pics such as low-budget horror films. To Sujewa’s great credit, he took great care to ensure that he presented a multi-faceted and diverse portrait of the blogging community, while also acknowledging the ways that we sometimes fail to be fully inclusive. In addition to all that, it was certainly fun to see so many of the bloggers I’ve been reading, in some cases, for several years and to get some history of film blogging from people, such as Kaufman and S.T. VanAirsdale, who have (like myself) been practicing the fine art of film blogging for some time."
Read the rest of the post here.
- Sujewa
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Screener DVDs on their way to NC & ATL
Also submitted the flick to the Atlanta Film Festival.
More screeners & fest submissions heading out all over America & beyond in the coming days.
- Sujewa
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Submitted the doc to Sundance
Lots more fest submissions coming up.
And when I get caught up on some urgent items I'll create & post a trailer & clips & stills from the doc here at this blog.
- Sujewa
Friday, September 19, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
There is a slim chance that the film will be done by 9/22
- Sujewa
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Links to blogs & sites of all the bloggers featured in this doc
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Meeting The Reeler on Wed AM
Friday, August 8, 2008
Interviewing The Reeler & Anthony Kaufman next week
- Sujewa
Monday, August 4, 2008
Gabe Wardell on blog confessions
- Sujewa
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
End of the road; Silver Spring, MD
Indie Film Blogger Road Trip - Episode 1: Visiting Obenson & Harris in Brooklyn
BREAKTHROUGH WEEKEND Teaser Trailer
Good Reads (Under Construction)
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