{"id":4993,"date":"2011-11-03T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:08:06","slug":"caught-on-film-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/11\/caught-on-film-4\/","title":{"rendered":"CAUGHT ON FILM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Student filmmaker spotlight: Matthew Krieg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>by Margot C. Lester<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSeventeen-year-old Matthew Krieg wants to be a director and a screenwriter. Not content to daydream of being honored at the Golden Globes or winning an Oscar, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually developing his craft while still attending Durham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Riverside High.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of my first attempts at making a narrative short film was <em>Epidemic<\/em>, a drama\/suspense film,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was more of a learning experience than anything else. My most recent film is a drama called <em>A Soldier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Letter<\/em>, which was shot in three and a half hours, and is, coincidentally, three and a half minutes long. It was the first short film that I shot on a sound stage and that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t edit myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Krieg decided on filmmaking after attending the Movie Makers Summer Camp in Durham. He also became an avid viewer of the web series <em>Backyard Fx<\/em>, which showed how to make props from popular movies and cheap-and-easy ways to produce campy special effects. Now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got his sights set on film school. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to write and direct my own indie films, but I try to get experience in all fields of film, like editing, cinematography \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even taken an acting class,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That way,\u00c2\u00a0if I do one day get to be a director, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll understand what goes into\u00c2\u00a0all the other jobs, which will help me give better direction to the rest of\u00c2\u00a0my crew. Being a filmmaker has been my dream since childhood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A film noire fan (he likes the cinematography and metaphor-heavy dialogue), one of Krieg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite films is <em>Requiem for a Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was shot and edited in a very unique and stylistic way,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was able to tell a powerful and moving story in only 100 minutes. And it cost very little to make.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>His favorite directors are Francis Ford Coppola and Christopher Nolan. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both directors make films that are very story driven and deal with the psychology of human beings,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Krieg says. <\/p>\n<p>Krieg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s learning another important aspect of the film industry by volunteering with the <strong>Carrboro Film Festival<\/strong>. He was on the judging panel and is helping produce the show reel and highly anticipated opening short. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know much about film festivals and thought that volunteering would not only be fun but informative,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he notes.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was rewarding to learn what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like to be a committee member. One of the most important things I learned is that submitting a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 film doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t guarantee acceptance into a festival, and that if your film is rejected it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily mean that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbad.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Krieg encourages other teens to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has great diversity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just about every type of genre. They will be impressed to see the amazing films that are being produced right in North Carolina, just as I was while I was reviewing them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Sixth Annual Carrboro Film Festival<\/strong> will run from 1 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20 at the Carrboro Century Center. Admission is $5. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/carrborofilmfestival.com\/\">carrborofilmfestival.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student films accepted to the Sixth Annual Carrboro Film Festival<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A New Life<\/em> by Adrienne Ostberg, UNC-Greensboro<br \/>\n<em>Found<\/em> by Nick Baker, UNC-Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<em>Friday Night Fright<\/em> by Ashley Maria, University of Southern California<br \/>\n<em>I Was Meant to Do This: The Chris Jobe Story<\/em> by Baden Piland, Elon University<br \/>\n<em>Nite Lite<\/em> by Mariah Dunn, UNC-Greensboro<br \/>\n<em>Opening<\/em> by Devin Forbes, UNC School of the Arts<br \/>\n<em>Plain Pine Box<\/em> by Matthew Marenyi, UNC-Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<em>Raising Islam<\/em> by Jon Kasbe, UNC-Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<em>Wyciananki<\/em> by Irena Rindos, Clemson University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Architecture Movie Series<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe next film in the <strong>2011-12 Nowell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Architecture Movie Series<\/strong> will be screened on Nov. 17 at the <strong>Galaxy Cinema<\/strong> in Cary. The feature is a documentary about the National Stadium (also known as the Birds Nest) for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, which shows how Chinese culture, politics, expectations and deadlines shaped the creation process. <a href=\"http:\/\/trianglemodernisthouses.com\/movies.htm\">trianglemodernisthouses.com\/movies.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student filmmaker spotlight: Matthew Krieg by Margot C. Lester Seventeen-year-old Matthew Krieg wants to be a director and a screenwriter. Not content to daydream of being honored at the Golden Globes or winning an Oscar, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually developing his craft while still attending Durham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Riverside High.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}