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Richard Sidey has kindly released his film Landscapes at the World's Ends, in full, for us all to watch.

You can watch it on the film page.

Richard Sidey's Landscapes At The World's Ends is available for a limited time on DVD.

http://www.richardsidey.com/prices/index.html

Sergio San Martin is seeking a musician to score a non-verbal documentary.

Sergio says:

" I am seeking an original composer to create an original score for a short film project.  The film was filming in Vietnam in 2009 and it is about transports and cycles. The film is very close to "Dogora". "

Here is a excerpt from the film

Sergio has complete a recent documentary.

"El Buste", a 10 min documentary speech less shooted in the rural region of Tarazona (Spain). It won Best etnographic documentary in "Festival de Cine Social de Valparaiso, Chile, 2008, selected in Ambulart 09, selected in Brianza Film Corto edizione 2008 and selected in “Lessinia Film Festival 2009".

You can see this film on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHDoS7yX2Y

For more information contact Sergio via his website: www.sergiosanmartin.com

or via email: info@sergiosanmartin.com

Crossing Worlds is an interesting project using spherical photography.

The film is inspired by Baraka and the other films in this genre.  With stunning photography of various landscapes, the special spherical player allows one to change the viewing angle.  Take a look.

http://www.xrez.com/case-studies/film-vfx/crossing-worlds-fulldome-film/

Tom Lowe has changed the title of his forthcoming film from "Southwest Light" to "TimeScapes." 

Expect something fantastic from Tom.  This trailer shows the quality of Tom's work.

Update: Tom is currently with Godfrey Reggio on a new film called Once Within a Time.

Tip: Watch this film in HD and in full-screen.  Amazing quality.

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

LIGHTSCAPES is an episodic, half-hour experiential television series airing on Discovery HD Theater that captures famous buildings and landscapes around the world as they are transformed by stunning, large-scale lighting displays.

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Grant Wakefield has 3 new short films to check out.

REMNANTS explores the rise and fall of the Megalithic civilisation of Britain, via highly stylised, motion controlled digital timelapse cinematography, set to an original score by members of Tangerine Dream.

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Tom Lowe has a new clip from his forthcoming film Southwest Light.

The clips is short, but the imagery looks great.

Tom says: "I am planning to wrap principle photography on Southwest Light next March, and will edit the film in New Zealand in Spring/Summer 2011."

http://timescapes.org/

 The Samsara production team suggest that Samsara will be released in 2011.

Pierre André has kindly provided photographs from the Baraka showing at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California.

Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson were in attendance and answered questions about Baraka and Samsara.

Pierre André is a composer and you can see his portal here: www.pierreandre.net

All pictures are Copyright 2010 Pierre André

You can read the transcribe of the questions and answers here:Read more >>>

Baraka is being shown on April 22nd at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

Dogora,  Patrice Leconte's wonderful insight of the people of Cambodia will be released in April.  The DVD will also be re-released at the same time.

You can pre-order using the following links

• Blu Ray on Amazon.com
• DVD on Amazon.com

Tom Lowe, creator of Timescapes, has announced a new film: Southwest Light

The film will be a mixture of timelapse, slow-motion, and real-time footage.  Tom will travel the American Southwest (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico) for ten straight months, no stopping.

Tom says: "My goal is to create a portrait of “a time and a place” using poetic, haunting, jaw-dropping visuals.  The genre of the film will be similar to non-narrative masterpieces Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi."

Tom has received financial backing and plans to start shooting in Feb 2010.

The 9th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held March 18-26, 2010 in Tiburon, California, a showcase for the independent feature and short films from around the world.Read more >>>

Amazon are having a big sale on many BBC series, including the Blue Planet, and Planet Earth series.

Most are half price, or less! 

This is a great chance to get box sets at a fraction of their original price.  I'm particularly liking The Life Collection.  24 disc box set.  Fanastic!

See the offers on:

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.co.uk

The 8th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held March 19-27, 2009 in Tiburon, California, a showcase for the independent films and filmmakers from around the world.

Submissions are open to all genres of film: Fiction, documentary, short, animation, experimental, student, children, sports, music video.....from any nation in the world.

The festival has honored many great filmmakers: Orson Welles, Sam Pekinpah, Luchino Visconti, Charlie Chaplin, Santiago Alvarez, John Frankenheimer, George Stevens, Malcolm McDowell, Saul Zaentz, Brad Bird, Paul Mazursky, Mark Rydell, Blake Edwards ..... Read more >>>

Grant Wakefield has released a preview to this latest work, Empire of Stone, which is part of his Remnants project. It's a great timelapse film, 15 minutes in length. We look forward to seeing more of the project.

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Watch a trailer of Highway World, Martin Hans Schmitt film currently doing very well on the film festival circuit. It's also available to buy from Amazon (links below).

Watch Highway World on YouTube (sorry, can't show the video on this page)

Buy From Amazon.com (NTSC)

Buy From Amazon.com (PAL)

Baraka Blu-Ray review and quotes from Roger Ebert

“the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined”

“’Baraka’ by itself is sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player.”Read more >>>

A PAL region 2 DVD of Lucky People Center International will be released in Jan/Feb next year in Scandinavia. It is the first time LPCi will be released on DVD with english subtitles (it will also have swedish, danish, norwegian and finnish subtitles).

It also contains a new 5.1 sound mix as well as the orginal 2.0 mix.

Hopefully it will be available worldwide eventually.