SXSW 2012: Make a BTS Web Series and Survive

Huffduffed by mikeboas on June 18th, 2012

Join the filmmakers of Rising from Ashes, the subjects of BTS, for a discussion on the power of a behind the scenes web series to support your film. What happens when you stop marketing and use the medium to inspire and educate?

Zacuto Films presents “BTS” a new web series that goes behind-the-scenes to document the making of a film. In this ""Documentary About Making Documentaries,” the Zacuto Films production team travels to Rwanda to follow Director T.C. Johnstone, Producer Greg Kwedar and their entire film crew during the last 18-days of filming “Rising From Ashes: a film about Rwandan’s first national cycling team.” The new webisodic series “bts” produced by Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn, Scott Lynch and Greg Kwedar captures the moments, the misses and what it really takes to put a film together. “There’s intense logistics,” says Kwedar. “There are motorcycles, follow-vehicles, helicopters and camera guys riding backwards on motorcycles.” BTS: making two separate films, on one location.

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FP990310

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