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October 21, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Doing Craft Services on a DIY Budget

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
October 6, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Exploring the “Crazy, Gory, Weird, Uninhibited Gem” That Is Fantastic Fest

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
October 3, 2011

Directing On a Dime: Tom DeLonge on Music, Movies and Love

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
September 16, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Coming For Dinner and Staying For the Show

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
September 9, 2011

Directing On a Dime: How to Make Your Auditions a Success

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
August 12, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Derrick Comedy’s Dan Eckman on Mystery Team

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
August 5, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Legendary Producer’s Rep John Pierson on the Current State of Indie Film

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
July 29, 2011

Directing on a Dime: The Story Behind The Blair Witch Project

We wanted The Blair Witch Project to look 100 percent authentic, so we had to devise a way to control the narrative but also keep that spontaneity.
July 22, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Puffy Chairs, Cyrus and the Film School Question

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
July 8, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Chatting with Mumblecore Moviemaker Joe Swanberg

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
June 10, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Scoring the Low-Budget Movie

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is […]
May 24, 2011

Directing on a Dime: Location, Location, Location

Welcome to MovieMaker’s new blog, Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers […]
April 26, 2011

How To Make a Feature Film for Under $200

In the summer of 2010 I directed, edited, co-wrote and co-composed music (among several other odd jobs) for my first […]