Heidi Honeycutt

Associate Editor
  • Directing
  • Producing
  • Winter 2016

Box-Office Prophets: The Rise of the Faith-Based Film Industry

Call them what you will. “Christian,” or “faith-based” or “inspirational/spiritual/ministry” films are good business in 2016. Major studios and independent…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Looking Alive: Five Ways to Survive Your Horror Film’s Festival Run

Now that your genre film has gotten into a festival, how will you survive it? 1. If your horror film…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals

No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a…

8 years ago
  • Summer 2014

Myth of the Two Percent: Why Hollywood’s Shifting Views on Female Cinematographers are Good News for Indies

David Geffner interviewed seven of America’s “hottest female cinematographers” for issue 35 of MoveMaker in 1999. He began the article…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

Preventing Piracy: Rallying the Troops under CreativeFuture

Anti-piracy advocates band together under CreativeFuture, a site that mobilizes against illegal for-profit media platforms and promotes legitimate online distribution. Launched…

10 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Movie News

Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters

Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is…

10 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Film Critic: The Movie

Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week is Film Critic: The Movie, a comedy about following your passions in a way…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

Why We Like: Jim Mickle’s Cold in July Trailer

Jim Mickle's new Cold in July trailer guarantees grit, guns, blood, and tears. Not necessarily in that order. Jim Mickle's first…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

Why We Like: Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child Trailer

At first glance, Gillian Robespierre's feature-length independent comedy might seem like another "first-world-problem"/bourgeois New York City drama about the general malaise…

10 years ago
  • Directing
  • Documentary
  • Interviews

The Ultimate “It Gets Better” Story: Director Jeffrey Schwarz of I Am Divine

Out on DVD today, I Am Divine is the story of Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine, aka the most beautiful…

10 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Forbidden Zone 2

This week's crowdfunder pick is Richard Elfman's Forbidden Zone 2. Fantastic, revolutionary, and irreverent in every way, Elfman epitomizes underground…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

18 Films For 18 Friends:the MovieMaker Gift Guide

What do you give the friend that has everything? A movie they haven't seen, of course! With MovieMaker's VOD multiplex…

10 years ago
  • Directing

Under the Skin and Out of the Box: A Short Discussion of Guerrilla Filmmaking

Jonathan Glazer's startlingly original Under the Skin, based on the novel by Dutch novelist Michael Faber, employs a guerilla shooting…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • blog-test

Why We Like: Luc Besson’s Lucy Trailer by Heidi Honeycutt

In our new online series "Why We Like," MovieMaker editors break down a freshly-released trailer of an upcoming film we're…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • blog-test

MovieMaker Magazine Spring 2014: The Activism in Film Issue, On Stands April 22!

MovieMaker #108 Preview: THE ACTIVISM IN FILM ISSUE: CAN MOVIEMAKERS SAVE THE WORLD? The Spring 2014 issue is on newsstands,…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • Movie News

VOD Indie Hits: Austenland, CBGB, Sunset Strip and More

Watch cutting-edge indie cinema online on MovieMaker.com without having to leave the MovieMaker community. VOD company Yekra is revolutionary, democratic and DIY: everything…

10 years ago