Daniel Garber

Jun 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Jonathan Lethem |Daniel Garber |Richard F. Shepard |Susan Seidelman

Internal Lives: Annie Baker on Janet Planet For a playwright, making their feature directorial debut comes with a certain degree of anticipatory hype, and the results are evaluated with a fine-toothed comb to make sure they aren’t too “wordy” or “stagey.” As with David Mamet’s House of Games, Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me, John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano or ​​Celine Song’s Past Lives, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s Janet Planet should put any fears to...

Jun 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Daniel Garber

May 27, 2024 | nofilmschool.com | Daniel Garber

When George Lucas sat down to write the original Star Wars movie it was a real struggle. He went through countless titles and characters, but as he reworked and rewrote, he eventually put to paper the start of one of the greatest movie franchises of all time. While the films are packed with lightsabers, droids, and the Force, they also offer valuable lessons for storytellers, screenwriters, and anyone looking to craft a compelling narrative.

May 27, 2024 | nofilmschool.com | Daniel Garber

Written by Daniel Garber, editor of FX documentary SpermworldDuring the depths of the pandemic, I spoke with my dear friend and director Lance Oppenheim almost daily, going stir crazy while looking for a project to work on together. In January 2020, we premiered his first documentary feature, Some Kind of Heaven, at Sundance; its festival run was truncated by lockdowns and festival cancellations, and it would soon be released into a flatlining theatrical market.

May 15, 2024 | medium.com | Daniel Garber

While all the hype is about what Large Language Models like ChatGPT can or cannot do, not all tasks require them. This article presents a comprehensive pipeline for extracting text from PDF documents, performing Named Entity Recognition (NER), and visually annotating the identified entities directly on the original PDFs for easy reference.