All posts by Grant Vance
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Book Review: Shaping Light for Video in the Age of LEDs
“Lights, camera, action!”—the classic, Old Hollywood call to arms. The adage remains, but—as articulated by career gaffer and lighting designer Alan Steinheimer... -
Exclusive: An Apple A Day Keeps The System Away In This Clip from Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes (Video)
Adapted from his 2013 short of the same name, writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay paints a beautifully uncomfortable picture with his feature slice-of-wandering life Mobile... -
Book Review: Ad Nauseam is a Charming Trip Through Curated ’80s Horror Newsprint Ads
Like your favorite fright flick marathon, Michael Gingold’s Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s is a nostalgic trip through ’80s horror. The frightful... -
Festival Beat: Beyond Fest Founders On Building A Genre Festival From Goblin to Cronenberg
Among their many eccentric counterparts over the years, insect politicians, Haddonfield historians and bitchin’ scary German guys are three of a wide... -
Exclusive: French Moviemaker Anne Émond on Adapting the Different Characters Crafted by Notorious Writer Nelly (Video)
French writer Nelly Arcane’s debut novel, Putain, put her on the map as a respected writer documenting her experiences as a sex worker.... -
Crowdfunder Pick: "The Guiding Light"
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here... -
Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)
It’s like they always say: if your marriage isn’t going the way you planned, try to spice things up. Maybe have some... -
Exclusive: Boogie Woogie to Ari Gold’s Musically-Inclined Nostalgic Drama The Song of Sway Lake
A valuable jazz record incites a romantic adventure in the ripples of a nostalgic lakeside community. In the swings and sways of... -
Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic family to reconstruct genre to its... -
Exclusive Preview: New Media Film Festival 2018 to Offer Emmy Consultation and Broadcasting
An all-encompassing media art showcase, New Media Film Festival (NMFF) continues to carve its own niche as it celebrates its ninth year...
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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