Kelly Leow

  • Moviemaking

Singapore Plays Itself: In Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a Nation (and its Daughter) Come of Age Onscreen

Beautiful Convergence When it opened in 1930, Singapore’s Capitol Theatre was a glittering picture palace, the crown jewel of Southeast…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2017: This Multicultural Delight’s Sixth Edition Kicked Into High Gear

Taking off from Barcelona, my plane crested a sea of clouds, thick and white like tundra. Here and there, the…

6 years ago
  • Directing

"Let Actors Lose Themselves, But Give Them Love and Desire": Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano on Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name was hailed by many at January's Sundance Film Festival as this edition's best, and given…

6 years ago
  • Producing

Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film

Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling it to distributors or…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Under Pressure: With Her Bitingly Excellent Horror-Comedy Bitch, Filmmaker Marianna Palka Wages a War Against Time

Sometimes a logline just calls your name. “A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2017: An Oasis of Intimacy in the Vast Mountain Night

A diehard ski racer, Dave McCoy built the first of his portable rope tows on 11,053-foot Mammoth Mountain 80 years…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: Bentonville Film Festival 2017 Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is

As the third woman from MovieMaker to attend the Bentonville Film Festival (May 2-7, 2017) in so many years of…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

The Cat Documentary Taking NYC By Storm: Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann on Their Gorgeous Film KEDi

“People who don’t love animals don’t love people either.” So says a fishmonger in Istanbul in an early scene of…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

MovieMaker Minute: Why Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name Was Shot Using Just One Lens

Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers.…

7 years ago
  • Acting

MovieMaker Minute: Bitch’s Jason Ritter and Marianna Palka on Getting Acting Feedback

Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers.…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

Green Lights: The Redford Center and Sundance’s “The New Climate” Provide Support for Environmentalist Film

Climate activists, rejoice: new support systems for environmentalist filmmaking are sprouting up, and there’s one name behind the curtain—Redford. The…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Punch-Drunk Love

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: Questions of Identity and Legacy Meet On Screen at the Hawaii International Film Festival 2016

Hawaii, you could say, has a Hawaii problem. It’s a place, like Paris or New York City, that has become…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Something About Mammoth: Come to Mammoth Lakes Film Festival for the Line-up, Stay for Springtime in NorCal

Somewhere in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, off Route 395 near Yosemite National Park, is the Mammoth Lakes…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

“Experience Life Itself, Good and Bad:” Terence Davies on Sunset Song, A Quiet Passion and How He Works

Terence Davies is hardly the most prolific of directors. In the 40 years since he began his cinematic career, he…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

Texting in Theaters “Could Seriously Hurt Our Industry:” Tim League Releases Statement in Response to AMC’s Adam Aron

Recently instated AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron made headlines this week at CinemaCon when he floated the idea of allowing…

8 years ago
  • Documentary
  • Feast for the Eyes

Of Tacos and the City: In Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold, L.A. is Most Beautiful Through Jonathan Gold’s Eyes

Few other cities in modern times defy easy narrative as Los Angeles does. Intoxicating and infuriating in equal measure, it…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Berlin, Revisited: Tour the City’s Famous Film Locations on This Interactive Map

Few cities have had such a dramatic and tumultuous history as Berlin since the turn of the 20th century—the period…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits

Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival's official photographer since 2003, a post that gives him the unusual privilege…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Festivals

Slamdance 2016: Watch Interviews with Adam Rifkin, Penn and Teller from Director’s Cut

Director's Cut, Adam Rifkin and Penn Jillette's warped comedy about obsession and moviemaking, opened the 22nd Slamdance Film Festival on…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016
  • Other

An Introduction to Indie Costume Design: How to Pull Off Spot-on Costuming Without Breaking the Bank

You want your film to look like it was dressed by Edith Head or Colleen Atwood, with eye-popping yet believable…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: the 2015 Hawaii International Film Festival Hits Close to Home

Warm rain, big vine-laden trees, masses of clouds, dampness everywhere: Landing in Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, reminded…

8 years ago
  • Acting
  • Fall 2015
  • Interviews

Sticking it Out, Winning Big: Ben Mendelsohn Comes Up Aces Again in Mississippi Grind

If you’ve seen Ben Mendelsohn onscreen, chances are you’ve been afraid of him. The Australian actor has played some of…

9 years ago
  • Acting
  • Interviews
  • Producing

Making a Tennis Movie that Doesn’t Suck: An Interview with Jeremy Sisto of Break Point

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there aren't any good tennis movies. But why? The sport contains elements that…

9 years ago