Cinema of Change

Robert Rippberger & Tobias Deml
Podcast Cinema of Change

Media has always played an important role around the globe. We live in a world of influence and social change - and as filmmakers, we want to contribute to a better world. The question is: How can we make better films that accelerate progress and help people become stronger critical thinkers? How can we expose issues that are important, and publish content that challenges popular conceptions? These podcasts along with the cinema of change magazine take a multidisciplinary approach and interviews filmmakers, psychologists, researchers and academics. It analyzes success stories of films that had an impact, and portrays companies that are following this path. Cinema of Change is a platform to bring impact filmmakers together to share ideas and to challenge our assumptions through debate.

  1. 03/10/2016

    Mark Litwak: Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and Distribution

    Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. This episode is an interview with entertainment attorney Mark Litwak called, "Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and Distribution." Mark Litwak is a veteran entertainment attorney. As a Producer’s Representative, he assists filmmakers in arranging financing, marketing and distribution of their films. Litwak has packaged movie projects and served as executive producer on such feature films as “The Proposal,” “Out Of Line,” “Pressure,” and “Diamond Dog.” He has provided legal services or worked as a producer rep on more than 200 feature films. Litwak is also the author of six books: Reel Power, The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood(William Morrow, 1986), Courtroom Crusaders (William Morrow, 1989), Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry (Silman-James Press, 1994) (winner of the 1996 Kraszna-Krausz award for best book in the world on the film business), Contracts for the Film & Television Industry (Silman-James Press, 3rd Ed. 2012), Litwak's Multimedia Producer's Handbook (Silman-James Press, 1998), and Risky Business: Financing and Distributing Independent Film (Silman-James Press, 2004). He is an adjunct professor at the U.S.C. Gould School of Law where he teaches entertainment law. Litwak has a B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York. He received his J.D. degree from the University of San Diego in 1977. We hope you find this conversation interesting and insightful. Subscribe to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Until next time, be the change that you want to see in the world. Then turn it into cinema.

    55min
  2. 14/09/2016

    Joshua Oppenheimer: Why Filmmakers Shouldn't Chase Impact

    Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He is a two-time Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Oppenheimer has a Bachelor of Arts-degree summa cum laude in filmmaking from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London. Oppenheimer spent 12 years in Indonesia and returned with two internationally praised documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) & The Look of Silence (2014), both challenged the documentary film form and shed new light on the minds behind The Indonesian Genocide of 1965-1966. 01:30 How films can change both the world and the people in and behind them. 02:20 - The true impact of films 07:05 The psychology of perpetrators 10:40 What screenwriters and narrative filmmakers can learn about real villains 12:20 Advice to narrative filmmakers to have their films make more impact 15:15 Protecting the artist from his/her impact 19:00 On film criticism and understanding how a film works on an audience 20:35 On motivation, risk-taking and finding your path We hope you find the conversation interesting and evocative. Subscribe to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Be the change that you want to see in the world. Then, turn it into cinema.

    24min
  3. 15/08/2015

    Nicholas Paige: The French New Wave and a Look to the Future

    Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Professor Paige teaches at the UC Berkeley French Department and has published a number of papers and books focusing mostly on seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. What makes him so unique to us is that he is on of the foremost experts on the French New Wave - and the magazine that came with it, the “Cahiers du Cinema.” This period in 1960s French Cinema sparked a revolution in filmmaking worldwide. How could a few french intellectuals change the face of cinema? We’re about to find out. 00:25 - Intro: The French New Wave (FNW) 01:23 - How does a film movement form and become successful? 05:50 - Did the "Cahier du Cinema" magazine dictate the course of the French New Wave? 10:12 - How did the FNW filmmakers transition from critic to creator? 13:45 - How does a journalistic background influence a filmmaker? 19:46 - When do film revolutions happen - and how can we forecast them? 24:35 - Is a cultural shift usually preceded by a generational shift? 27:39 - What's the next revolution that makes us rethink cinema? 35:12 - Can films properly portray the existential questions of life? We hope you find this conversation interesting and evocative. Subscribe to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Until next time, be the change that you want to see in the world. Then turn it into cinema.

    41min

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Media has always played an important role around the globe. We live in a world of influence and social change - and as filmmakers, we want to contribute to a better world. The question is: How can we make better films that accelerate progress and help people become stronger critical thinkers? How can we expose issues that are important, and publish content that challenges popular conceptions? These podcasts along with the cinema of change magazine take a multidisciplinary approach and interviews filmmakers, psychologists, researchers and academics. It analyzes success stories of films that had an impact, and portrays companies that are following this path. Cinema of Change is a platform to bring impact filmmakers together to share ideas and to challenge our assumptions through debate.

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