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January 8, 2013
With the imminent launch of MovieMaker’s new site next month, we’re looking back at the NewFilmmaker Los Angeles 2012 season. […]
January 5, 2013
MovieMaker’s 10 Best Films of 2012, spotlighting the risk-taking films that stunned over the last 12 months.
January 3, 2013
With a plethora of digital distribution platforms sprouting up like ragweed in a hay field, it can be easy to […]
December 28, 2012
So, I figured out that I have seen 37 movies this year that I liked enough to consider putting them […]
December 21, 2012
The best thing about streaming movies is that there’s no sunk costs. I don’t have to sit there and suffer […]
December 20, 2012
Can a successful feature film debut be crowd-sourced? The Feature Film Project, an offshoot of MANHATTAN SHORT, aims to find […]
December 18, 2012
Academy Rolling Out Online Voting Online voting for the Academy Awards is rolling out this season. Leaving no geriatric voters […]
December 11, 2012
Here are the loglines for the Sundance’s “World Cinema Dramatic Competition” lineup. Loglines for foreign films tend to be less […]
December 11, 2012
I’m going to center this particular buying guide around a Final Cut Pro X (fcpx) workflow
December 7, 2012
“The whole truth will be out someday, somehow,” Akira Kurosawa said with resignation late in his life. The master Japanese […]
December 5, 2012
Every month, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles screens a program of short films, documentaries, and narrative features directed and produced by emerging […]
December 5, 2012
I’ve been to a few Q & A sessions recently, and I now feel pretty familiar with what might get […]
December 4, 2012
We make snap judgements about which movies we’re going to see and not see all the time. Usually when picking […]
November 29, 2012
But They’re Cheerleaders! I don’t know how you feel about Lucky McKee, but he certainly has his fans among horror […]
November 28, 2012
November 28, 2012
This morning, the Sundance Film Festival announced that they received—wait for it—12,000 submissions! (Actually, 12,146, to be exact.) And from […]
November 27, 2012
There are a bunch of other worthy filmmakers, actors, and cinematographers in the Indie Spirit Award’s litany of nominees, published yesterday afternoon.
November 27, 2012
Spanish Theater Owner Leads “Carrot Rebellion” A clever Spanish theater owner came up with a literally organic way to avoid […]
November 27, 2012
Film festivals are so numerous these days that counting them is tantamount to tracking migratory birds. The hard number of […]
November 26, 2012
Pitching your film to an outside source? Find out what you need to know before your interview in order to make the best impression.
November 21, 2012
Aaron Sorkin, Sony’s writer for their upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, spoke at Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit last […]
November 20, 2012
??As fun as it is to go into a movie cold, it can also be exciting to have an idea […]