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Compass Films Win Big at Detroit Independent Film Festival
The 2009 class of Compass Film Academy made its presence known at the Detroit Independent Film Festival this weekend with the short films “The Commandant” and “1 New Message.”
Nominated for Best Michigan Short and winning for Best Actor (Robert William Ford), “The Commandant” tells the story of three Russian soldiers hiding in Poland during World [...]
Compass Film Academy Represents at Doorpost Film Competition
The Doorpost Film Project’s 2010 Short Film Contest is underway, and this year Compass students and alumni have shown up in full force. Current student Justin Abraham Hall and previous student Caleb Alexander Slain both have films through the first round of competition.
No strangers to Doorpost, Hall and Slain have teamed up on previous Doorpost [...]
The Role of Intermediaries in Avatar
James Cameron’s Avatar succeeds in its epic storytelling by taking a number of familiar myths and stories and subverting their preordained outcome to create a familiar but new story. These myths and stories include the classic intermediaries of Gandhi, George Steven’s Shane, Prometheus, and Moses. By taking elements from each one of these [...]
Michigan Film Office Annual Report
The Michigan Film Office has posted their annual report for 2009. If you love the filmmaking coming to the state and are interested in the learning more about the effectiveness of Michigan’s Film Incentives, it’s a real page turner.
Check it out at the Michigan Film Office’s website:
http://www.michiganfilmoffice.org/cm/The-Film-Office/MFO2009-ANNUALREPORT.pdf
