Deliverance! A Distribution Checklist of Deliverables
Production wraps, post-production is completed, and a film finally plays to the public… a moviemaker’s proudest moments. In between these peaks, though, is the long...
Maximum Release: Quick Advice on How to Improve Your Theatrical Impact
There is nothing to compare to the shared experience you find in a theater, screaming and laughing as a collective, crying quietly in unison with...
A Golden Age for Art Houses? In an Era of Isolation, the Art-House Cinema is a Sacred Place, says Tim League
I think we are in a golden age for art-house cinemas. When 70 percent of Americans have a movie screen in their pocket, adoption of...
Duty-Free Cinema: Art-House Hollywood Theatre Comes to the Portland International Airport
This spring the Hollywood Theatre, a nonprofit, Prohibition-era movie house in Portland, Oregon, will open an annex at Portland International Airport (PDX). While the 90-year-old...
Slate Up: Five Keys to Unlocking a Distribution Deal
In partnership with Film Slate Magazine, we’re publishing “Slate Up,” a fortnightly series with practical filmmaking advice and musings. New articles, written by the team at...
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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...