All posts by Carlos Aguilar
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Child’s Play: Carla Simón on Directing Her Young Stars and Revisiting Her Memories in Summer 1993
Stemming from true events in her childhood, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 is a delicate, accomplished debut feature and was selected as Spain’s Oscar... -
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2018: A Vital Community of Cinematic Truth-Seekers in the American South
If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would the title of a moviemaker panel... -
Duck Test: How Miguel Arteta and Alia Shawkat Made Their Taut Relationship Drama Duck Butter in 24 Hours
For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in supporting roles that enrich whatever story... -
Battle Wounds: Chloé Zhao on Fictionalizing Brady Jandreau’s Story for The Rider
Gravely injured by the very act that elates him, a cowboy in South Dakota is adrift in the vastness of his sorrowful... -
Ghost Writing: Arnaud Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts‘ Film-Within-a-Film, His Director’s Cut, and His Fear of Rehearsals
French director Arnaud Desplechin’s charmingly self-referential body of work is an ode to the beautiful and often regrettable mishaps of youth, and how they... -
Beauty and the Dogs: How Tunisian Director Kaouther Ben Hania Made a Feminist Horror Film in Nine Shots
Pairing a universally resonant quest for social justice with cinematic boundary-pushing, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Beauty and the Dogs is an unmissable feature... -
Pitch Perfect: Bavo Defurne on Directing Isabelle Huppert and Songwriting for Souvenir
An elegant ode to fading dreams and the possibility of second chances, director Bavo Defurne’s sophomore feature Souvenir channels Eurovision glamour into... -
2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Ten Moviemakers Share the Lessons They Learned While Making Their Nominated Films
Outside of the dozen or so studio releases that capture the attention of major awards voting blocs and, in turn, moviegoers, few other... -
Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema
From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure. Indeed, the... -
Fighting Words: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot Portrays Grief in Strictly Visual Terms
With his first feature Lebanon and his latest Foxtrot, Israeli auteur Samuel Maoz—a former tank gunner turned Golden Lion-winner—crafts sensorial cinema about trauma....
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6