All posts by Erin Trahan
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MovieMaker’s 2017 Guide to DIY Digital Distribution: Our Fifth Annual VOD Overview
While it’s still churning, the digital distribution dust has settled just enough to bring good and bad news to indie moviemakers. Often... -
MovieMaker’s Fourth Annual Guide to Digital Distribution: A Game of Thrones
What a difference a year makes. Independent film distribution has continued its blink-of-an-eye evolution into 2015 with Video on Demand (VOD) at... -
Moviemaker’s Third Annual Guide to Digital Distribution
Congratulations. Count yourself among the generation of moviemakers for whom Video on Demand (VOD) has progressed from novelty act to main attraction—an...
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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