All posts by Alexandra Eide
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Best Of: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2014
Feast your eyes on MovieMaker‘s complete list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2014. Despite original plan to... -
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2014: D through I
It’s finally here: MovieMaker‘s annual list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2014 edition! We’ll be releasing the list... -
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2014: A through C
It’s finally here: MovieMaker‘s annual list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2014 edition! We’ll be releasing the list... -
New Filmmakers LA Part 2: Indie Interviews with Directors Crabtree, Ciavijo, Lihilihi and Writers Antonia and Perkinson
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is jam-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, there’s so much wisdom we had to split it into... -
New Filmmakers LA Part 1: Indie Interviews with Directors Almogar, Bedzhanova, Celaya and De Chausse
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is jam-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, there’s so much wisdom we had to split it into... -
Jason Dohring Interview: The Actor’s Role in a Crowdfunding Campaign
The paradigm of Kickstarter success that over-worked, exhausted aspiring moviemakers cling to in their darkest moments—a beacon of hope in during the... -
New Filmmakers LA Part 2: Indie Interviews with Directors Huckin, Kiser, Cummins, Himelstein and Hitzemann
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is stuff-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, it’s so packed we had to split it into two... -
New Filmmakers LA Part 1: Indie Interviews with Directors Murtagh, Davis, Groll, Ade, Doan and Wikla
This week’s edition of New Filmmakers LA is stuff-packed with moviemaking wisdom. In fact, it’s so packed we had to split it into two... -
New Filmmakers LA: Indie Interviews with Directors Brown, Gomez, Morgenstern, Beaton, Lopez, Connelly and Geisen
New Filmmakers LA is back with yet another dose of indie filmmaker interviews. Today we are featuring interviews with directors Dustin Brown,... -
Wisdom Wednesday: McG’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
He has directed music videos for Sugar Ray, Cypress Hill, Sublime and Wyclef Jean… executive produced more than a dozen popular television...
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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