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Crowdfunder Pick: Featuring Will Oldham, Topology of Sirens is Influenced by Rivette and ’90s Point-and-Click Adventures
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here... -
Indie Law Mailbag: Get Your Pressing Indie Law Questions Answered
Are you an indie moviemaker kept up at night by one nagging legal question that you worry will derail your upcoming production?... -
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their... -
AFI Fest 2018 Wrap: Team MovieMaker‘s Favorites From This Year’s Festival
In experimenting with all forms of moviemaking, this year’s AFI Fest slate managed to spread the focus of its selections even more... -
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2018
What is it you’re after—the art of cool, or the cool of art? The fact is, all of the most imaginative, surprising,... -
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival: Jury Members, Including MovieMaker’s Tim Rhys, Announce 2018 Award Winners
The fourth annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners on its closing night at the... -
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018
Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee... -
Sponsored Editorial: Master the Art of Film and Television Production at Sacred Heart University
The Film and Television Master’s Programs (MFA and MA) offered by the School of Communication and Media Arts at Sacred Heart University... -
VEGAS Pro 15: Providing Filmmakers a Unique and Fully Customizable Workflow
The latest version of VEGAS Pro 15 once again establishes the software as a leading video and audio editor for professional filmmakers... -
The 2018 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: We Take the Pulse of Nine Narrative Features Playing in Park City
The 34th Sundance Film Festival received 3,901 feature-length submissions, and selected 110—the line-up that largely sets the tone for the year in...
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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...Inside the Issue: Directing
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...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...