All posts by Hamish McCollester
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A-List Knowledge from Shane Hurlbut: The Inner Circle delivers on virtual mentorship for filmmakers
With a little diligence and resourcefulness, would-be students can access a world-class academic education right on their computers. However, when it comes to more specialized...
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Moonlighting Moviemakers: How To Make Movies With a Day Job in Tow
I’ll never forget the moment. I was toughing my way through another long week in a windowless office at the small New York advertising agency...
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DIY Moviemaker: How to Build Sliders and Jibs
How to build sliders and jibs: building two moviemaker must-haves in one easy project. When MovieMaker’s managing editor, James Kaelan, challenged me to create a...
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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...