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Late Night: Director Nisha Ganatra Talks Emma Thompson’s Improv Skills and Portraying an Aspirational Writers Room
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Breaking and Entering, Part Two: A Map To Finding Feature Funding
If you didn’t read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the Winter 2019 issue of MovieMaker. There, we broke down how to...
A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the night. She remembers her last day with him, how he...
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A man cuts through the bustling crew and stands in the center of the room, a bottle of champagne held aloft. “Let’s hear it for our nominees,”...
Moviemaker Melee: Joel Potrykus and Nathan Silver Debate the Pros and Cons of Big City and Small Town Moviemaking
Should you live and work in a big city or a small town? Should you stick close to your native geography, or build a new creative...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8