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Issue #35 [September/October 1999]

Shooting Stars, Part II (The Women)
By David Geffner
Last year, for MM #29, David Geffner interviewed 14 of the "World's Greatest Living Cinematographers," compiled from an industry survey. No women were nominated. Gender bias has long been a problem in Hollywood, but there seem to be signs that things are changing. Seven female DPs, the best in the business, speak frankly about the state of their art.

Features: The Distribution Wars: What I Learned in the Trenches
By Joe Zimmerman
When two indie moviemakers set out to make their ambitious first feature, they knew that getting it in the can would be a challenge. They won all their production battles, but little did they realize that the real war hadn't even begun.

Features: Designer Genes
By Tony Devenyi
With a slew of big-budget, high-profile movies to his credit, (The Outpost, 8mm, Last
Man Standing
, etc.) Gary Wissner might just have an affinity for production
design in his blood.

Features: The Art of Cinematic Design
By Scott Essman
Even though no one but the director and the DP influences the look of a movie more than the production designer, little seems to get written about these behind-the-scenes magicians. We asked several of the industry's top designers to share some of their secrets with MM readers.

Features: Golden Rules of the 35mm Transfer
By A.G. Basoli
Of the few independent movies to "strike gold" at Sundance recently,
three, including The Blair Witch Project, were shot on video and transferred
to film. Here?s what their makers learned.

Features: Latin Cinema: The Next Generation
By David Geffner
No greater mystery exists in the industry than why the 30-million-strong Latino population is consistently ignored by mainstream moviemakers. A whole generation is about to change all that.

Features: The Time is Now to Make a Short Film
By Jennifer Hinkey
Short films used to be the domain of students and reel-builders. But with several very serious new distributors turning shorts into cash, everyone seems to want to get in on the act.

Features: Marketing Your Movie on the Internet
By Glen Berry
With much of the early success of the phenomenally popular Blair Witch Project attributed to a savvy web campaign, moviemakers are lining up to learn the basics of internet marketing.

Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys

Haskell Wexler
By Rustin Thompson

Features: Art House Fare
By Max Harrold

Your Camera… Your Money
By Dov S-S Simens

The Making of Under Hellgate Bridge
By Michael Sergio

Fellow USC Grads/Friends Come of Age
By Kathleen McInnis

Choosing Your Cinematographer
By Eric Sherman

Filming in New Orleans
By Robert Basile

The Making of Love, Life, and Laundry
By Stacie Turk

Features: Sex and Politics: Mixed Reviews
Carsten Dau and Paula Hunt

Luise Rainer
By Kevin Lewis

Peter Ustinov
By Kevin Lewis

Edward Dmytryk
By Kevin Lewis

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