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 publish the list...
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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 in five alphabetical...
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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 in five alphabetical...
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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 two parts! In...
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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 two parts! In...
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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 inevitable 20-day slump—is...
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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 parts! In Part...
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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 parts! In Part...
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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, Daniel Gomez, Michael...
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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 series, including Supernatural,...
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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...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
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...