Mary Katzke, a filmmaker who has put together several successful films through her Anchorage company AffinityFilms, was recently named head of the newly reopened Alaska Film Office. But before she got that post, she finished work on a major project — a documentary called “About Face,” which was five years in the making, completed Jan. […]
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Yesterday’s post was about Hollywood coming after an Alaska writer’s novella. Now imagine the process in reverse, with a twist — a local reader (with lots of film experience) comes across an Alaska book, loves it enough to consider adapting it into a screenplay, and works hard to get it ready for Hollywood’s attention. Thanks
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In March 2006, New York Times Reviewer Dave Itzkoff had this to say about the short stories of Fairbanks-based David Marusek: Marusek’s short works of fiction have “so far proven to be as concentrated and potent as a dwarf star. In The Wedding Album, a story first published in 1999, he fashions an ominous and
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According to Wikipedia: The psychological thriller Insomnia, starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams was extensively shot in Canada, but was set in Alaska. The 2007 horror feature 30 Days of Night is set in Barrow, Alaska but was filmed in New Zealand. Most films and television shows set in Alaska are not filmed there; for
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Making a movie involves teamwork. So does creating a vital writing community. I want to take this thematically appropriate opportunity to point to another blog trying to stitch our writing community together — Green Room, a blog hosted over the Anchorage Daily News, and written by Peter Porco, Mark Muro, Sandy Harper, and Ron Holmstrom.
Every once in a while, good news takes us by surprise. In this case, our state — and every writer, actor, filmmaker, movie buff or t-shirt vendor — should be happy about the re-opening of the ALASKA FILM OFFICE, last September. I think it’s one this year’s biggest — and most under-reported — arts-community news
Quiet on the set! MOVIE WEEK starts here… Read More »
