All posts by Caleb Hammond
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Festival Spotlight: Myrtle Beach International Film Festival’s Jerry Dalton Keeps Politics Strictly Out of It
Think of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and “film” might not the first word to enter your mind. If so, you haven’t met... -
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Executioner
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
Crowdfunder Pick: Vidiots Video Store in Santa Monica
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here... -
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
“You’re in the Business of Storytelling:” Meera Menon on Equity and How Investment Banking Parallels Filmmaking
Early on in Meera Meenon’s new film, Equity, investment banker Naomi (Anna Gunn) delivers a speech at her alma mater, asking that... -
Premade to Order: 20 Credit Sequence and FX Templates That Will Raise Your Game
Have you gotten so caught up with the rest of your film that you’ve left precious little time to put together a...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
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...1Inside 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...2