All posts by Lara Colocino
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Best Of: The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading... -
The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: Experimental/Underground and Outside the Box Film Festival Winners
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading... -
The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: LGBT and Ethnic/National Film Festival Winners
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading... -
The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: Environmental/Social Cause and Women’s Film Festival Winners
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading... -
The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: Short and Comedy Festival Winners
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading... -
The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: Documentary and Horror/Sci-Fi Festival Winners
It’s time! We’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World winners, voted by YOU, two categories at a time over... -
Getting to The Other Shore: the Inspiring Diana Nyad Documentary (Part Two of Interview)
We’re back with Part Two of our interview with director Timothy Wheeler and producer Kevin Abrams as they talk about their stunning... -
Getting to The Other Shore: the Inspiring Diana Nyad Documentary (Part One of Interview)
We’re celebrating the opening of our latest VOD offering, The Other Shore, with a splash: a two-part interview with director Timothy Wheeler... -
If You Build It: Four-walling Your Way Into Theaters
When researching the gamut of distribution strategies, it can be tough to figure out the best way to get your film to... -
Festival Spotlight Friday: FirstGlance Philadelphia
MovieMaker’s second Festival Spotlight is another east coast staple, FirstGlance Film Festival Philadelphia. FirstGlance has two homes (soon to be three!) in...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...1