All posts by Caleb Hammond
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
How to Do the Hustle: Use Craigslist, IMDbPro and Other Job Boards to Jumpstart Your Film Career
The daunting task of moving to a new city alone and attempting to break into the notoriously nepotistic community that is the... -
Gimme Shelter: Seven Movies About Immigration
In the light of Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries into the Unites States, we’re revisiting... -
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
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8