Alex Ferrari is making quite a name for himself. In 2005 he directed the $8,000 short that could: Broken. Ferrari has continued to exploit digital technology to give his projects a very impressive scope and professional sheen. Nothing has changed with his latest offering, Red Princess Blues: The Book of Violence, an animated short, written and co-...

[Editors Note: This is another article from the Vault. Back in the old days, when people still made printed “zines,” Tim Shrum was putting out a D.I.Y. filmmaking publication titled NEXT TUESDAY.  One of his frequent subjects was filmmaker Rock Savage. In this interview, Tim interviews Rock about a documentary called Assignment: Gh...

Here is another interview from THE VAULT! Wayne Alan Harold is the writer and director of Townies, a sleazy feature-length flick about a group of strange characters in a town called Schlarb, Ohio. Imagine a black and white Hal Hartley movie cast with recently discharged mental patients. In true b-movie tradition, it is these freaks and goons that a...

Movies that are shot on digital video suck. Right? Somebody forgot to tell Miguel Coyula.  And since Miguel didn’t know any better, he went out and shot an ambitious feature length drama with a Canon GL1 and a budget of around $2,000. The movie is RED COCKROACHES and it’s pretty amazing. The film is set against a surreal fu...

MicroCinema Scene: Okay, tell us a little bit about your second feature? Marc Fratto: Well, much like Strange Things was made because I was sick of lame vampire movies with no balls, I made Last Rites of the Dead as an answer to how boring and formulaic zombie movies have become in the last 10 years. In fact, zombie movies became so formulaic...

In many ways, J.R. Bookwalter epitomizes the spirit of what MicroCinema Scene is all about. This may sound like a strange claim to make about someone who is best known for directing a sprawling Super8 zombie epic financed by the director of Evil Dead II. Infected with a love for filmmaking at an early age, Bookwalter has brought his visions to c...

This interview is intended specifically for beginning filmmakers who want to make their first movie shot on Super 8mm film. This discussion focuses on the technical aspects of Super 8mm film production. It is hoped that this article will assist new directors in creating well-made movies on very low budgets. Eric Stanze directed Ice From the Sun, ...

Sally and her little brother Ruby spend a lot of time in their cabin in the woods. The odd decorations on the walls seem to span from the floor near the carpet all the way up to near the ceiling. It looks as if they have been decorating this place since they were children. I can see crayon drawings on the walls, people with smiley faces, but as ti...

MicroCinemaScene sits down with Slava Siderman, the man behind the camera of such outstanding micros as Y2K:  Shutdown Detected and The New Chapter. Who are you and what do you do? I am an aspiring filmmaker with a tool belt for every occasion.  The last 10 years I spent going to film school and shooting my own films.  I received...

Jon McBride has acted, written, scored, directed, and produced a large number of productions, from commercials and television programs (Days of Our Lives, Golden Girls, Silver Spoons, Moonlighting ) to movies in all budget ranges (The Running Man to Blades). But Jon is perhaps best known for a series of cult favorites, including the infamous Canni...