Stories By James Kaelan
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Directing
Let the PA Direct (Almost): Why Collaborating with Your Crew is Your Greatest Strength
September 1, 2015As a confident movie-maker, don’t hesitate to ask your film crew for help. They aren't your...
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Things Learned
Bound for the Frontline: MovieMaker Senior Editor James Kaelan Steps Down to Join the Independent Film War
August 14, 2013“In the town of Osijiek, Croatia, Eduardo Flores, a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia...
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Articles
MovieMaker Editor’s Pick: Back to the Future in Computer Chess
August 1, 2013MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Computer Chess, though we can’t resist sending a shout out to...
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Articles
Revenue Record: Yekra Crushes with Online Doc
July 8, 2013Like everyone else trying to forecast the economic landscape of independent film, over here at the MovieMaker offices,...
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Articles
Coachella: Triumphs, failures, and lessons from the inaugural AMFM Fest
June 19, 2013The inaugural AMFM Fest, which shares a valley with the Coachella Art and Music Festival, may...
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Articles - Festival Beat
Bringing Film to Coachella: AMFM Fest aims to bring film, art, and more music to the Coachella Valley
June 5, 2013AMFM Fest, the new acronymic festival in the Coachella Valley, might just be aiming to overthrow...
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Articles - Directing
This Film Isn’t Real: Maja Milos’ Tiger Award-winning debut, Clip
April 18, 2013On a Saturday afternoon at AFI Fest last November, I walked into a 4:15 PM screening...
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Nairobi Half Life: Back by popular demand!
April 9, 2013By popular demand, Nairobi Half Life—Kenya’s first official submission for the Academy Awards ® and the...
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Articles - Producing
Accepting Applications: Dogfish, the world’s first film production accelerator
April 9, 2013Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who’d made fortunes in Silicon...
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The Wild Bunch: Eight new Midnight Marauder posters for Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece Western
April 5, 2013I don’t claim to be a Sam Peckinpah expert or a film critic by any means....
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Articles - Festivals
Tribeca 2013: Dance docs, war docs, Michael Haneke docs, and a few films that aren’t docs
April 4, 2013Wading through the muck of Tribeca’s programming is always a tricky business. It’s gotten a bit...
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Articles - Distribution
Farm-to-Table Crowdfunding: Seed&Spark helps fund and distribute independent films
April 2, 2013On February 20 of this year, 75 days after launching their beta site, Seed&Spark—one of the...
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Articles - Distribution
We Make Movies (Better): New grass roots and the digital age of moviemaking at SXSW
April 1, 2013I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of an interloper in the film world. I was an...
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Articles - Directing
Narcotic Harmony: An American provocateur wages a war against the senses with Spring Breakers
March 29, 2013I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I saw Kids (directed by Larry...
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Movie News
The MovieMaker Manifesto: A Document for an Oppressed Majority
March 27, 2013If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut...
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Articles - Directing
Sundance for $60,000: Daniel Hoesl’s Soldate Jeannette is a Masterclass in Low-Budget Filmmaking (Video)
March 26, 2013Anyone familiar with the films of Mike Leigh knows that, in the right hands, the seed...
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Articles - Directing
Things I’ve Learned: Harmony Korine
March 25, 2013As Josh Ralske writes in his forthcoming MovieMaker interview… “I was never really a fan of...
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Articles - Exhibition
Nairobi Half Life: Endorsed by the Kenyan Embassy
March 19, 2013Washington, D.C.—This morning, the Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half...
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Articles - Festival Beat
Cinequest 23: 86 US and World premieres constitute the Cinequest line-up
March 17, 2013If Cinequest were a film, the plot would be too complicated to condense into an elevator...
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Articles - Festival Beat
Palm Springs International Film Festival: This Palm Springs film festival programs the best in international cinema
March 17, 2013I have a propensity for severe landscapes. Minimalist architecture excites me. Between a rain forest and...
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Articles - Festival Beat
Indie Memphis Film Festival: The premiere Memphis festival offers brilliant docs and backyard keggers
March 17, 2013I am always excited when I get the chance to return to Memphis. After spending nine months...
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Articles - Festival Beat
Humphrey Bogart Film Festival: Bogie returns to Key Largo for this beach-side festival
March 17, 2013The first weekend in May, 2013, fans of the cultural icon Humphrey Bogart—the man that the...
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Articles - Auteur
Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 3: Plastic emotions and lite art
March 8, 2013Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 4 Surely I’m not the only person in...
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