All posts by Austin Film Festival and MM Editors
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Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019, Presented by MovieMaker
Whether you’re grinding it out in a large or small market, the first stage of moviemaking—screenwriting—is unenviably lonesome, full of endless drafts and a sea of...
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Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2018, Presented by MovieMaker
Screenwriters are the first to step forward when called upon to deliver their often thankless, solitary labor, and they still tend to be the last ones...
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Screenwriters to Watch, Class of 2016: Where Are They Now? Checking in With Seven of Last Year’s Picks
Last year, we debuted the 25 Screenwriters to Watch list in partnership with Austin Film Festival, selecting 25 up-and-comers with, we said, “original voices, keen...
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Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2017, Presented by MovieMaker
Maybe the idea of “watching a screenwriter” sounds a little like watching a kettle boil: Sit at desk. Clutch pen in hand. Think. We’ll admit,...
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MovieMaker Presents: Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch, 2016
Screenwriters are, of course, the perennially overworked, underappreciated artists whose heart, soul and lifeblood the movie world depends on. Since its inception in 1993 the...
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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...