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As a confident movie-maker, don’t hesitate to ask your film crew for help. They aren’t your employees; they’re your collaborators.

“In the town of Osijiek, Croatia, Eduardo Flores, a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia and a follower of

MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Computer Chess, though we can’t resist sending a shout out to The Spectacular Now. Two

Like everyone else trying to forecast the economic landscape of independent film, over here at the MovieMaker offices, we think a lot

The inaugural AMFM Fest, which shares a valley with the Coachella Art and Music Festival, may have been too ambitious.

AMFM Fest, the new acronymic festival in the Coachella Valley, might just be aiming to overthrow that other four-letter film

On a Saturday afternoon at AFI Fest last November, I walked into a 4:15 PM screening of a Serbian film

By popular demand, Nairobi Half Life—Kenya’s first official submission for the Academy Awards ® and the 2012 AFI Fest Audience

Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who’d made fortunes in Silicon Valley, founded a company

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

If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut claimed, the Nouvelle Vague

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 his forthcoming MovieMaker interview… “I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I

Washington, D.C.—This morning, the Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half Life, a Kenyan film

If Cinequest were a film, the plot would be too complicated to condense into an elevator pitch. For the last

I have a propensity for severe landscapes. Minimalist architecture excites me. Between a rain forest and a desert, I prefer

I am always excited when I get the chance to return to Memphis. After spending nine months there filming the documentary

The first weekend in May, 2013, fans of the cultural icon Humphrey Bogart—the man that the American Film Institute ranked
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