By Ron Merk Ferrania’s film stocks have been used in many of the great Italian films and also by other European filmmakers for decades. But after 3M took over the [...]
By Ron Merk and Peter Pfluger Yes, it’s the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Super 8mm film into the amateur home movie making market. If you don’t know anything [...]
By Ron Merk For the past two years, I’ve been working on a true passion project, acquiring and assembling more than 500 collections of historically or culturally [...]
By Ron Merk For those of you who were born in the last 25 years, the name Don Murray may not mean much to you. But in his prime, he was as big a star in Hollywood as Paul [...]
By Ron Merk I’ve been in the motion picture and entertainment industry for nearly 45 years. I’ve watched as true independence has become merely a myth for the [...]
By Ron Merk If you are interested in crowd-funding a project of any kind, I’d suggest that you take a look at this free, yes I said free, publication from indiegogo, [...]
By Ron Merk Le Video, one of the last remaining video stores still standing in San Francisco, still needs help to raise the $35,000 they need to keep the doors open, and [...]
By Ron Merk At the recent press conference for the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival, Bill Proctor, Publicity Manager for the San Francisco Film Society, [...]
By Ron Merk I don’t often “pitch” fund-raisers in this column mostly because I know too many people, filmmakers and institutions that are beating the bushes for [...]