AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Have experience in both video and film, plus videotape editing, archiving, and remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Not too familiar with all the various Hd formats although I did operate an HD B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's, plus several dozen super-8 filmmaking awards and for video productions as well.
I currently offer YouTube uploading tutoring that includes a critique and technical review as well. If you live in Los Angeles and would like to learn more about this educational service send an email to info at slingshotpro.com
Recently finished cinematography work on the film Dali, Dali, Dali which is now in post production.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
Independent filmmaking has grown rapidly in the past 10-15 years.
In the past independent filmmaking usually meant that funding for the film came from somewhere other than the movie studios and usually the budgets were under 10-15 million dollars, sometimes as low as 300,000 dollars.
Nowadays, independent filmmaking can mean shooting with a Mini-dv Camcorder or Prosumer Hd camcorder, or it can also mean finding well known actors to be in the movie for S.A.G. (screen actors guild) daily minimum wages but the film will still be shot on 35mm film, 16mm film, or HD.
Usually the purpose of an Independent filmmaking experience is to follow a script the way the director, writer, and/or producer wants to have it interpreted from a visual and narrative point of view. Independent filmmaking can also mean the filmmaker could not get financing from the movie studios and instead will attempt to make their own film for considerably less money than if the studios were backing the project.
Independent filmmakers will usually rely on publicity generated from film festivals that will screen their movie. The Sundance Film Festival and Cannes are probably considered the nirvana of all independent film festivals. If an independent film is screened at Sundance or Cannes and generates "buzz', the possibility of finding a distributor or movie studio interested in distributing the movie increases.
I don't know the percentage but I would take a guess that over 90% of all independent films don't get sold right away.
