Turning the Tide: With Over 60 Million Views, Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood Warms New Generations to Environmentalism
He was, like the rest of us who count ourselves among the environmental community, still emotionally hung over on the 10th day of November in...
Why Vérité Moviemaking is the Holy Grail of Documentary: An Essay by the Directors of The Bad Kids
Principal Vonda Viland runs Black Rock Continuation High School in the Mojave Desert, a school for students at risk of dropping out—and she’s the subject...
Foreign Contenders: Ukrainian Sheriffs is a Buddy Cop Doc Set Against the Annexation of Crimea
MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Each...
This Land is Moore’s Land: Michael Moore in Trumpland is a New Kind of “Political Theater”
There are many things one can say about Michael Moore, his films and his views, but one thing he can’t be called is a fly...
Between a Doc and a Hard Place: What Docs Can Teach Narrative and What Narrative Can Teach Docs
A recent podcast we went on to be interviewed about our film Limo Ride opened with the question, “Why did you decide to make a...
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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...