All posts by Kathy Lindboe
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What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common...
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You Need Professional Help: How Essential is Mentorship in the Film Industry? Indie Filmmakers Weigh In
When Alan Barillaro, director of “Piper,” this year’s Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film, accepted his award, he said, “Honestly, we’re only here because...
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Festival Wrap: The Second Bentonville Film Festival Leads the Road to Diversity (With a Couple of Missteps)
It feels great to like something first: to know the band before they get radio play, to be a regular at the restaurant before it...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...