Midwest Movie Maker

Filmmaker Tom Loveman We’re getting deep into stay-at-home orders and filmmaker fingers are getting itchy. If you haven’t already started, chances are you’re making a short movie for Corman’s Quarantine Film Festival , Roger Corman’s first - and, as he says, hopefully last - contest for stuck-at-home writer/director/actors. Otherwise you’re going stir crazy, right? Because filmmakers gotta film.  For the last couple weeks, we’ve checked in with filmmakers big and small to find out how they’re doing - and what movies are on their stay-at-home must-watch list. Know a filmmaker who we should spotlight? Email us at midwestmovies@gmail.com . Today we’re talking to Tom Loveman, an award-winning writer and producer of the short films Reclamation and Synesthesia , which, combined, have appeared in over 80 film festivals, including the San Diego Independent International Film Festival. Reclamation won Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy short in the 2018 Burbank International Film Festiv...

David Craig, Media Professor at USC Annenberg Take a cursory glance through social media and you’ll find myriad filmmakers, educators and enthusiasts doing whatever they can to feed their creative needs during our shared quarantine. Some are working with colleagues remotely (did you catch Saturday Night Live at Home or A Late Show with Stephen Colbert ?).  Others are taking time to learn a new skill, enter a few film festivals or knock out the latest draft of a screenplay, novel or, in the case of today’s interview, the non-fiction tale of the battle to make The Day After - and how that TV movie changed history. Over the next couple weeks (or longer?), we’re checking in with filmmakers big and small to find out how they’re doing - and what movies are on their stay-at-home must-watch list. Know a filmmaker who we should spotlight? Email us at midwestmovies@gmail.com . Today we’re talking to David Craig , a Media Professor at USC Annenberg, who writes academic books abou...

Mike Wendt, production coordinator, Greater Cleveland Film Commission If there’s one universal truth about movie making, it is this:  filmmakers gotta film . Roughly translated, it means anyone associated with the making movies is fueled by collaboration and buoyed by the joy of being on set. Imagine, then, what a stay-at-home order can do to the mind of movie maker? How do filmmakers scratch that itch when they’re stuck between four walls with no crew? And what about everyone else? The producers, writers, teachers and champions who long to be on a set or in a crowded theater? What’s going through their head? We weren’t sure, so we asked. Over the next couple weeks (or longer?), we’re checking in with filmmakers big and small to find out how they’re doing - and what movies are on their stay-at-home must-watch list. Know a filmmaker who we should spotlight? Email us at midwestmovies@gmail.com . Today we’re talking to Mike Wendt, production coordinator at the Greate...