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Making Faces will include subtitles in several languages. Because of the focus of the subject matter may limit the audience of this film, we do want it to still be accessible to type and design communities in many countries that have type founding traditions. We are working with various experts in the typography world to provide subtitle options in languages that may ultimately include: Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Greek, Czech & Brazilian Portuguese. We will not be using Babelfish.

November Screenings

Making Faces will be screened in early November in Two Rivers, Wisconsin and Seattle, Washington. Both screenings will feature a Q&A session from film maker Richard Kegler.

The Hamilton Woodtype Museum in Two Rivers is presenting their second annual Wayzgoose Conference Nov 5-7 with a great array of speakers and ending with a screening of Making Faces.

The Seattle screenings are part of the Type Americana Conference and in conjunction with the Northwest Film Forum on Nov 12 and 13.

Two Jim Rimmer Films

The Making Faces project was originally intended as a "how-to" film on type making with some definite glimpses of the character and personality of Jim Rimmer. It was shot with the intention of being a first person description of the process, from Jim with no narrator and no additional interviews. The most common question I get from people who have seen the unfinished cuts of the film is asking to see and know more about Jim as a person. Within the confines of the footage I shot and the subject matter of conveying Jim's process (both creative and technical) within an hour-long film, there is much material that could not be included. This compromise was tempered easily by a companion film that has been in production concurrently along with Making Faces.

From Lead to Gold: Portrait of Jim Rimmer, by Ryan Mah covers a much more intimate portrayal of Jim as a person and craftsman. Interviews with friends and colleagues help flush out anecdotes that Jim would be much too humble to ever express himself. Ryan's film is slated for a late 2011 release. We hope to arrange joint screenings of the two films to give a more complete depiction of Jim and his Art.

Dublin review and added footage.

A review of the screening of Making Faces at ATypI in Dublin. If my rudimentary understanding of German (and Babelfish) is correct, reviewer Florian Hardwig gave this a thumbs up. The unfortunate thing (since I was not able to attend the screening myself and just discovered this) was that the latest cut of the film was not shown. Through a mix-up with very similar looking DVDs, it was an earlier version that was not as refined as the more recent cut. The good news is that it will be that much better to those who saw this version when it is finally done.


One added feature thanks to our friends at the RIT Cary collection will include footage from Frederic Goudy's 1930s film of his making of a typeface using a pantograph to cut the matrices: "The Creation of a Printing Type from the Design to The Print by Frederic W. Goudy"

Dublin Screening

The Irish premier of the almost finished cut of Making faces will be presented at the ATypI conference Thursday September 9 at Dublin Castle following a talk by Robert Bringhurst on "A brief sociology, and maybe some pathology, of type design". The film will be presented by associate producer Carima El-Behairy. Final editing is nearing completion with the assistance of Mark Abney of Splice Here. Additional detail footage has been shot and historical footage will be included and then onto transcription for subtitle translations. Pre order info for the DVD will be announced soon with the confirmation of bonus footage that is to be included.

Making Faces Screening at Typecon - LA

Making Faces will be screened at Typecon 2010 in Los Angeles. This will be the latest cut of the film. As with all best laid plans oft going astray, the film is not yet at the final stage of editing. Public screenings have been a great way to garner feedback and fine tune the film. If you are in LA for typecon, do stop by and say hello and feel free to offer feedback. The film is very close to being finished and the version to be screened will be very close to the final DVD release version.

Loxley font to support film project

Loxley was one of two type styles drawn and digitized by Jim Rimmer shortly before he died on January 8, 2010. (The other style to be named "Rimmer", will be released at a later date.)

Loxley was designed to be used in a fine press edition of the classic folklore story of "Robin Hood". The town of Loxley, Sheffield is cited as the birthplace of Robin Hood. This project was to be a follow up for Jim's epic edition of Tom Sawyer for which he designed the typeface Hannibal, named after the Missouri town that was the birthplace of Mark Twain.

The style of Loxley is based on early Roman faces, such as the "Subiaco" type of the late 1400s that was also inspirational to Frederick Goudy for his "Franciscan", "Aries" and "Goudy Thirty" type faces. Loxley displays some of Jim's particular left handed calligraphy and is in a similar style to his "Fellowship" and "Alexander Quill" faces, both of which were made in metal and digital formats.

The metal font and book were never realized. As per Jim's wishes, P22 type foundry finished the digital type and all proceeds from the sale of RTF Loxley will be put towards the completion of the documentary "Making Faces".