All posts by Christianne Hedtke and Kathy Lindboe
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Small Cities and Towns
We released 2016’s Best Big Cities to Live and Work as a Moviemaker yesterday; today we announce our 10 top Small Cities and Towns, combined...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities
Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you’ll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the movies there were only a...
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The Indie-Friendly Business List 2015: 25 Companies You Should Know
This year’s indie-friendly business list takes to the digital frontiers of efficient independent moviemaking. When the telephone was invented in 1876, no one could’ve predicted...
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Where are the Agents of Change? A Primer on the ACLU Investigation into Hollywood’s Gender Discrimination
When director and Transparent creator Jill Soloway delivered her fiery, uproarious keynote address to the graduating students of the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women...
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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...
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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...