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New Filmmakers LA: Director Interviews Part 5, “Great Western” and “Kate”
New Filmmakers LA is back with yet another dose of indie filmmaker interviews. This week we are featuring interviews with “Great Western” director Tanya Goldberg...
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Academy of Art University
http://www.academyart.edu/ Academy of Art University’s School of Motion Pictures and Television fosters creativity and independence in the art of filmmaking. Students are immersed in producing,...
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Academy of Film Arts
For the aspiring moviemaker with no time to spare, the Academy of Film Arts (AFA) is the ideal film school. In as few (or as...
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Sundance 2013 Breakdown: What’s in a Logline?
We make snap judgements about which movies we’re going to see and not see all the time. Usually when picking out a movie we ask...
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NewFilmmakers Los Angeles: Looking back at the August offerings
Come January, when MovieMaker launches its new site, we’ll be doing a monthly update with NewFilmmakers Los Angeles where we look at the slate of...
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Tip Jar: Make a Profit with Vimeo
One of the world’s largest creative networks, the video-sharing website Vimeo reaches a global audience of more than 75 million visitors each month. On the...
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An Education on Education: Taking the pulse of today’s film schools
by Jennifer M. Wood | Published October 16, 2012 As a magazine written by, for and about independent moviemakers, film education is an important part of what...
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Just Crowdfund the $&*# Movie!: Hollywood, Wisconsin
Welcome to Just Crowdfund the $&*# Movie!, MovieMaker‘s blog where indie moviemaker Jayce Bartok talks about the dos and don’ts of crowdfunding from the trenches...
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NewFilmmakers Los Angeles: Back on MovieMaker.com
During MovieMaker’s transition from New York to Los Angeles, one of the awesome features that fell by the wayside was regular updates from NewFilmmakers Los...
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Aaron Sorkin’s 3-Scene Take On Jobs and Harmony Korine’s “Spring” Release
Aaron Sorkin, Sony’s writer for their upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, spoke at Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit last week, saying, “this entire movie...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...