October 2006

Lynn Lane was Invited to Have Three of His Short Form Documentaries in a Film Festival in Paris

(10/1/2006) Lynn Lane was invited by the director and curator of "The 2nd International Meeting of Short Hip-Hop Films Festival" in Paris to be a part of this years exhibition. Three of his short form documentaries that were shot this past year were requested for the festival. One on the legendary "KING UPROCK" and two others that focus on life in the South Bronx are to be shown in October 2006.

June 2006

Short Form Documentary Film Festival In Development

(6/28/2006) Lynn Lane has partnered up with renowned photographer Bob Baldridge known for his work shooting people such as the Dalai Lama and many others to create a new non-profit media institute. One of the functions of this Institute will be to produce a semi-annual International Short Form Documentary Film Festival. The festival will have a global concern focus. Films should revolve around subject matter rooted in Human Rights, Peace and Social Justice or Environmental Issues. More information will be coming soon as well as a website for the Insitute and the Festiveal.

Lynn Lane was Interviewed for Indie Film Nation

(6/13/2006) Lynn Lane was recently interviewed by Mike Smith, producer of Indie Film Nation a weekly radio show and podcast out of Australia. Lynn was selected as the MySpace Filmmaker of the Week and profiled in an interview. Mike spoke with Lynn in depth about "Ring Days" and Coal River Pictures' other projects coming forward. The show airs the week of June 18, 2006 and will be archived for downloading on the Indie Film Nation website as well for later date downloads.

March 2006

Lynn Lane will be speaking at Bronx High School

(3/28/06) Lynn Lane has been invited to speak at Evander High School in the Bronx by Vision Media and Education on filmmaking and the use of the internet for distribution of videos on Wednesday, March 29,2006. The Bronx Newspaper will be there to cover the event. Lynn recently was a part of a program of filmmakers teaching students in the South Bronx filmmaking in an after school program sponsored by Vision and SoBro.

Lynn Lane Interviewed for Metro Newspaper (NYC)

(3/2/2006) Lynn Lane was interviewed for a story on Lynn as a documentary filmmaker and this online video project that he has been doing since last year, "Docmaker on the Go". Lynn spent around 6 months bouncing around NYC from various housing projects, to parks to recording studios documenting the 4 elements of Hip-Hop. He shot everyone from Grandmaster Melle Mel to Grafitti legend Blade. He set up a bBoy (breakdancing) event at a park in Queens with Zulu Nation as well as shooting guys like Drag-On from Ruff Ryders in the studio recording his new album. It was a great time and all of it will be being released in the next few weeks under a project that Lynn did with his friend and fellow filmmaker: Javier Goin. The project is called SKILLZ DVD Magazine. The article will run in next Friday's (March 10th, 2006) Metro available here in NYC. He has always viewed this blog as a sketch where he doesn't really have to worry so much about a finished film or carrying a story for 2 hours. They are just little blurbs, kind of like doodles on a piece of paper while you are working on a larger project. He feels that it is great because one can just have fun with videoblogging and experiment with different looks and ideas without the pressure of commiting to a full length project. Lynn will be launching a new website: Vlogumentarian.com that will fully explore this idea of sketch documentary filmmaking and it will depart from the Hip-Hop arena that "Docmaker on the Go" took on.

February 2006

Casting Call has Gone out for "The Accidental Hitman"

(2/21/2006) Coal River Pictures/ Lynn Lane in co-production with Jennifer Marre have listed a casting call for the short: "The Accidental Hitman". For more information on the short and the roles being cast, take a look at this casting link: "The Accidental Hitman" Casting Call.

Coal River Pictures Begins Casting for Short

(2/15/2006) Lynn Lane/Coal River Pictures will begin casting for "The Accidental Hitman", a short written by Lynn Lane. This will be co-produced with Jennifer Marre. Casting call will go up on Mandy.com this coming week as well.