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Collaborating with your crew is your greatest strength. As a confident movie-maker, don’t hesitate to ask your film crew for…
James Kaelan, MovieMaker's Senior Editor, steps down from the magazine to fight at the frontline of the independent film war.
Andrew Bujalski's latest feature "Computer Chess" burrows through the dustbin of broadcast video history to achieve its authentic lo-fi look.
This April, the Los Angeles-based VOD startup Yekra generated over $250,000 of rental revenue within 48 hours of releasing the…
The inaugural AMFM Fest, which shares a valley with the Coachella Art and Music Festival, may have been too ambitious.…
AMFM Fest, the brainchild of Albuquerque Film Festival founders Rich Henrich and Robert Galarza, aims to make the Coachella Valley…
Clip turned out to be one of the most unflinching and controversial portraits of teenage lust, longing, anguish, and rebellion…
By popular demand, Nairobi Half Life—Kenya’s first official submission for the Academy Awards ® and the 2012 AFI Fest Audience…
This summer, the team behind Dogfish Pictures (one of the companies that helped produce last year's Compliance, and this year's…
I don’t claim to be a Sam Peckinpah expert or a film critic by any means. I am a poster…
Wading through the muck of Tribeca’s programming is always a tricky business. It’s gotten a bit easier in recent years,…
On February 20 of this year, 75 days after launching their beta site, Seed&Spark—one of the most innovative crowdfunding platforms…
I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of an interloper in the film world. I was an actress for 15 years, having…
I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I saw Kids (directed by Larry Clark) and Gummo, and…
MovieMaker Manifesto: Men and women of contemporary independent film, auteurs and fans alike, you downtrodden and enraged creators of beauty,…
Anyone familiar with the films of Mike Leigh knows that, in the right hands, the seed of a story—a lovable…
As Josh Ralske writes in the MovieMaker interview, "The film is at once asinine and wholly mesmerizing. It’s crazy, and…
The Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half Life, a Kenyan film screening today as…
James Kaelan travels to Cinequest 23 and gets bowled over by the sheer volume (86!) of U.S. and World Premieres…
James Kaelan travels to the premiere Palm Springs film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) to sample the…
Academy Award winner Daniel Lindsay travels to Indie Memphis, the premiere Memphis festival for all things independent film, to serve…
2013 marks the first year of the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in Key Largo. Besides screenings of Bogie's work, visitors…
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 4 Surely I’m not the only person in America weary of stylistic…
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