All posts by Maddy Kadish
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Switching Gears: Lighting and Gear Company Draco Broadcast Launches New Direct-to-Consumer Rental Services
As a moviemaker, you’ve probably used Draco Broadcast gear without even realizing it. Draco Broadcast is a leading manufacturer of professional-grade LED lighting and equipment...
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ISET Trendsetters: VR Moviemakers Jessica Brillhart and Gabo Arora’s Five Tips for Working in a Brave New Medium
As VR breaks new territory, matures as a medium, and the market for VR storytelling grows, it edges ever closer from specialty item to consumer...
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Vocal Expression: Zoe Lister-Jones on Making Her Spirited Feature Debut, Band Aid, With an All-Female Crew
The feature film Band Aid represents not only Zoe Lister-Jones’ directorial debut, but also her voice—in more ways than one. Lister-Jones and Adam Pally play...
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On Demand and Supply: Brush Up on Digital Distribution Basics, Courtesy of Leading Aggregator Distribber
Distribution is the end goal of every moviemaker, yet for many the slog of getting a film onto a screen—any screen—can be wearing. Could you...
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Letting Sparks Fly: Sundance’s Three-Year-Old Ignite Program Gives Young Moviemakers Space to Grow
As Sundance settles comfortably into its fourth decade, the festival hopes to draw—and shape—new filmmakers and audiences, particularly as methods of creating and consuming film...
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Casting From Your Couch? Mobile Casting App UpCast Aims to Cut Your Time Spent Finding Actors
As mobile technology shakes up everything from dating to banking, Drew Doyon, founder and CEO of UpCast, wants to do the same for the casting...
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Albany’s Own: As You Are Announces a Promising Talent in Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
As You Are is a story about isolation, fracturing relationships and the need to belong. From first-time filmmaker Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, the film premiered at Sundance...
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“No Filter”: Director So Yong Kim Gives Her Stars and Setting No Embellishment in Lovesong
With her film Lovesong, director So Yong Kim shows us how old friendship can morph into awkwardness when lives take different directions. The film premiered at...
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A Friendly Ear: Audio Network Adds a Human Touch to Music Licensing
Audio Network is working hard to be your music licensing guide. Launched in 2001 as an online music library for producers in the TV and...
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Vegas Upgrade: VEGAS Pro Editing Software Gets a Comprehensive Boost in its 14th Edition
Berlin-based MAGIX has given VEGAS Pro editing software the love it may not have received from Sony. MAGIX acquired the Windows-only VEGAS Pro last May...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...