Weekly Roundup: October 30 - November 5, 2010

Here are snippets from this week's most interesting film-related news, including latest updates from current and past TFI projects:

Cinema Eye announces non-fiction nominees for the 2011 Honors to be presented at the Museum of Moving Image, including filmmaker Lixin Pan's debut film Last Train Home.

If you've been following our guest blogger Ingrid Kopp's posts about transmedia and new ways to use digital media to tell stories, you won't want to miss filmmaker Paul Kamuf's latest project, Light, As a Feather. He tells NewTeeVee that what attracted him to the project was the "ability to use the browser as part of the storytelling. The idea was to show that the browser can move and illustrate what’s happening." 

Variety polled leaders in the independent film world about the challenges in indie filmmaking, everything from budget to distribution. Check out a handy chart of their answers and read excerpts of answers from Cinematic Media's John Sloss to Focus Features' James Schamus.

Thompson on Hollywood sums up the latest learnings from currently ongoing American Film Market (November 3 - 10), including how 3D technology is boosting box office worldwide and Harvey Weinstein's love for the iPad.

Anne Thompson herself discussed the future of 3D on a panel with indieWIRE critics Leonard Maltin and Eric Kohn, addressing some of the most recent 3D releases and which of them made best use of the technology and medium.

In their predictions on Sundance 2011 line-up, IonCinema picks Tribeca All Access Alum Rashaad Ernesto Green's Gun Hill Road as a contender in the Dramatic Competition category. A 2010 TAA participant and the recipient of the the 2009 Spike Lee Fellowship and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces, Rashaad recently appeared on BET's "Lens on Talent" to discuss his film, along with TAA Program Director Tamir Muhammad.

Scott Kirsner of CinemaTech is giving away a free pass to a workshop at the upcoming New York (November 13) and LA (November 20) editions of Distribution University, where industry experts such as Marc Schiller of Electric Artists and Ira Deutchman of Emerging Pictures will be talking about audience-building, social media, distribution, and crowd-funding.