Get Into the Directors' Chair

Warner Bros. Pictures launches yet another Emerging Film Directors' Workshop to incubate your cinematic talent.

While we struggling and slightly starving filmmakers, video artists and digital content creators welcome the thought of a salary, noted million dollar mentor and access to Warner Bros. Pictures, selecting only five (5) potential emerging film directors out of a spool that must be limitless and daunting casting. Might I suggest Hollywoodteurs (yes, I coined this term), attend emerging and diverified film festivals, scan YouTube, peruse Vimeo, access Artist-in-Residence participants, and scour emerging filmmaker websites to court and woo potential and innovative filmmakers whose filmatic flourishes catches a fancy suit's eye driven from the creator's unique vision and sui generis voice.

For us, emerging filmmakers, of course, we must apply, what else is there for an emerging artist in a land where Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump are the zenith of popularity alongside of 'Deadpool?' However, consider this, as you gather up your documentation, tweak your essay, update your bio, and link your samples to apply and spend days, weeks, months waiting for word from WB:

• Brainstorm an Idea or Story
• Research the Idea
• Write a Script
• Get a Producer
• Set a Budget - $0.00 is a budget in the indie film world
• Cast
• Assemble a Crew - in 2016 a Producer and a Director can equate a Film Crew
• Schedule a Shoot
• Grab a Camera (Mobile Device, Ipad, Laptop, HD, Film, Video) 
• Shoot
• Edit
• Screen the Finish Project (Online, Home, Film Festivals)

In the end, the most important thing is to repeat this process and to be innovative, original and place something new, and if not new, because we all know this is the ultimate challenge, at least something that is fresh and feels new and inspires other emerging talents -- even a man in a $5,000 made-to-measure suit to launch.

Locations - Gotham Pitti

Warner Bros Pictures has selected Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the production location for the upcoming and final installation of the moody and psychological action driven Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, 'The Dark Knight Rises.'

Set to begin filming this summer, 'The Dark Knight Rises' will have a major economic impact on Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl stated, “This is another example of the growing film industry in our community, and we will be rolling out the red carpet for them." Outside of India's Bollywood and Nigeria's Nollywood, Hollywood is the original film factory of sacred Golden Age glamour and gilded silver screen dreams. It is noteworthy that Hollywood is using innovative locations right here in the good old USA to shoot American blockbusters, film franchises, trilogies, series, prequels, sequels, series and summer tentpoles.

Director Christopher Nolan offered, “Pittsburgh is a beautiful city. We have been able to find everything we were looking for here, and I am excited to spend the summer in Pittsburgh with our final installment of Batman.”

'The Dark Knight Rises' is slated to premiere July 20, 2012 - worldwide, of course.