The clock is ticking on Farmstead Meatsmith’s Kickstarter project: a series of free instructional webisodes on butchery processes or dishes. Lauren and Brandon Sheard own and operate Farmstead Meatsmith; they are working with filmmaker Andrew Plotsky on the project. Andrew, who is also the Sheards’ apprentice, had plenty to say about the how’s and why’s of small-scale butchery, harvesting, and meat processing. more ›

On Tuesday, Amazon launched a new program called Amazon Studios, with the goal of helping burgeoning filmmakers achieve their dreams of cinematic success. The catch phrase of the new plan is “Win money. Get noticed. Get your movie made.” more ›

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It took filmmaker Jennifer Fox four years, seventeen countries, and 1,600 hours of footage (which she whittled down to 6 hours of film) to fully cover the cross-cultural confusion of modern womanhood. The project didn't start out that high-minded; Jennifer was dating two men and not entirely happy with either, which led to an identity crisis that inspired her travels exploring what it means to be a woman today. The result is her sweeping, compelling tour de force Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Along her journey, there’s a lot of girl-talk over food and drinks, and in that way, Flying is a slow-moving and much smarter version of Sex and the City, where Carrie Bradshaw eschews the contrivance of writing a newspaper column and just addresses the camera directly. But at the same time, it’s a state of the union on the current female experience, covering everything from physical and sexual abuse, orgasm, sex trafficking, honor killing, female genital mutilation, in vitro fertilization, abortion, and marriage. more ›