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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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...1