Hollywood Founded on Piracy, and Other Revelations from The Pirate Bay Verdict

So I woke up this morning to news that a verdict had been officially passed down on The Pirate Bay Four — actually it was leaked first and then officially passed down, in a fitting bit of irony.
TorrentFreak (an apparent fan of BitTorrents) has posted the details:
All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making [...]

BIFF 2009, Day 5: Short Films (Mostly) Suck

Such a bold statement is tantamount to heresy from this Film School Graduate, but hear me out…
I remember hearing or reading somewhere that if you want to make a feature, why waste time and resources on a short film that could be better spent on your ultimate goal?
Indeed, of the eight films that made up [...]

BIFF 2009, Day 4: Keep The Promise

From The Bermuda Film Festival website:
In September 2000, 191 governments committed to halve world poverty by 2015 and set eight goals to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). At the halfway point, eight directors were invited to share their vision of these major issues, each by way of a short film.
And here’s how effective [...]