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Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, the real-life couple whose love story forms the backbone of romantic comedy The Big Sick, remember searching for the right director for the...
ICYMI: The Best of May 2017 on Moviemaker.com
What’s more interesting, summer blockbusters or white house press briefings? In May 2017, it felt surprisingly close. It seems as if with each passing week, there’s a stronger case...
Wonder Women: 10 Female Directors Who Made the Jump From Indie to Mainstream
It’s always been tough for female directors to find the same amount of work that male directors have. Thankfully, in recent years, the balance of the playing field has...
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ICYMI: The Best of April 2017 on MovieMaker.com
When it rains it pours, and in April 2017, showers of weirdness and wisdom came down on MovieMaker.com. Christian Bale, Anthony Bourdain, Neil Gaiman, Terry George, Werner Herzog and...
Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2017, Presented by MovieMaker
Maybe the idea of “watching a screenwriter” sounds a little like watching a kettle boil: Sit at desk. Clutch pen in hand. Think. We’ll admit, they’re not the most...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...