Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 04:05:34 PM
Sarah Polley Explains How She Came to Tell 'Stories We Tell'
Sarah Polley talks to The Credits about her intimate new family documentary Stories We Tell. She says about getting her start, "I really just had a vague idea of where it was going. I wanted to look at storytelling and why we look for the truth in the past, but I didn’t know how to...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 12:05:41 PM
National Geographic Goes Back to the '80s with Colorful, Animated Promos
Illustrator Ana Benaroya provides the colorful characters for National Geographic's out-of-character promos for their latest minisieries The 80s: The Decade That Made Us. Says Joe Burrascano, ECD for agency Nathan Love, to Digital Arts, "This is a completely different look for the network...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/17/13 10:05:34 AM
Watch a Scene from 'Frances Ha' with Director's Commentary
Director Noah Baumbach narrates a scene from his latest film, Frances Ha. Baumbach reveals that it took 30 takes to get the scene, filmed in one long take, right. Watch here on The New York Times.
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 05:05:28 PM
Adorable New Spot Shows Oreos Giving the Big Bad Wolf a New Reputation
The adorable new animated spot for Oreos wonders if the iconic cookie would change the villainous fates of the Big Bad Wolf, vampires and great white sharks. The spot is set to a jaunty tune sung by Owl City. Says Janda Lukin, director of Oreo at Mondelez International to Fast Company's Co....
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 04:05:36 PM
Ad Agency Turns Nesting Falcons Into a Viral Campaign
Ad agency Campbell Ewald has decided to leverage a couple of nesting falcons on their office building's roof into a full-fledged and buzzworthy "campaign" -- one without a product to sell. Explains Christine Champagne of Fast Company's Co.Create, "When the folks at Campbell...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 04:05:34 PM
Watch 'Arrested Development''s Tobias Funke Audition for James Cameron
Arrested Development's resident aspiring actor Tobias Funke auditions over greenscreen so that directors like James Cameron can simply cut out his performance and plop it wherever they choose (payment terms can be discussed at a later time). Explains Advertising Age, "Turns out the site [...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 11:05:25 AM
Alex Gibney's 'Riveting' WikiLeaks Documentary to Be Released on May 24th
VisualNews calls Alex Gibney's new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks "riveting," saying, "The most compelling themes in the documentary are disclosure, truth, privacy and secrecy, which set up a show down of juxtaposed ideologies between the U.S. government and...
Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network,05/15/13 10:05:42 AM
Becky & Joe Hand-Animate Over Film Strips for Delicate Steve Music Video
Watch the colorful video for Delicate Steve's "Tallest Heights," directed by animators Becky & Steve. As Rachael Steven of Creative Review explains, "The video uses 16mm, 35mm and super 8 film strips and is part of the duo's experimentation with drawing on top of live...
Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network,05/13/13 11:05:35 AM
Richard Linklater’s Nine-Year Itch: The Before Midnight Director on Revisiting (and Revising) the Past
Tom Shone of Vulture writes: One of the first things director Richard Linklater did with money he had saved from his movies was buy a piece of land in Bastrop, Texas. He built a baseball diamond on it and a library in which he stored his collection of movie posters, a personal 35-mm. print of...
Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network,05/13/13 11:05:27 AM
An Evening With Robert Redford
The Credits writes: Robert Redford’s most recent film, The Company You Keep, is about a former Weather Underground activist who has to go on the run when a pesky journalist has uncovered his identity. Redford knows a thing or two about translating the work of investigative...




