THE digital revolution was once cause for 48-year-old filmmaker John De Rantau to stop making movies. Filmmaking was going through a transformation, from analog to digital. "I was upset. For five years I thought I never wanted to make another movie," he said two weeks ago.

John, who was born in the analog era, believed that a movie could only be made using a 35-millimeter film gauge and that the digital format was only good for television. After m