"Scott Macaulay's remarkable three-decade-plus tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Filmmaker, a magazine by and for indie filmmakers, coincided with momentous changes brought on by tech: the almost total supplantation of a century's worth of film technologies-production, post-production, distribution, exhibition-by digital systems conferring high-end capabilities upon low-cost cameras and PCs, along with the birth of internet websites and online streaming. Scott, with his roaming intellect, taste for experimental theater and film, and open spirit, was the right person at the right time to captain Filmmaker magazine"
"a long career producing, directing, and DP'ing indie documentaries and dramas, I've entertained a significant side hustle: chronicling the art, craft, and business of independent filmmaking. This began with a tech column, "In Focus," that appeared 1981-1992 in the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers's The Independent. I created "In Focus" because, as Director of New Technology at New York's DuArt Film and Video in the early 1980s, I had a privileged seat at the table when it came to new production and post-production technology. I therefore felt an obligation to share my insider's insights with other independent filmmakers. I wrote about Super 16, 35mm blow-ups, improving lens performance, advances in color negative, film-to-tape, tape-to-film, and what was then called "electronic cinema." I interviewed and befriended trailblazers like Jean-Pierre Beauviala of Aaton and vérité innovators Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines."
Scott Macaulay's thirty-year-plus tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Filmmaker coincided with a digital transformation that supplanted century-old film technologies across production, post-production, distribution, and exhibition. Digital systems and the internet put high-end capabilities into low-cost cameras and personal computers and created new distribution channels via websites and streaming. Scott's curiosity, affinity for experimental theater and film, and open spirit guided editorial leadership during those shifts. Chronicling began with the tech column "In Focus" (1981–1992) and continued with long post-production coverage at Millimeter, documenting Super 16, 35mm methods, lens and color advances, and film-to-tape workflows. Interviews with equipment pioneers and vérité filmmakers supplied practical insights for independents adapting to new tools.
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