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Newsletter Giveaway Entry
September 1, 2020Thank you for your interest in this contest. Entries are now closed at this time. Click...
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Alumni Offer Their Film School Advice
August 17, 2020For our annual Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada feature, we surveyed a select...
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Festivals
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway
August 10, 2020What makes something or someone cool is nearly impossible to articulate. It’s like what Supreme Court...
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Summer Reading Recommendations from Barry Jenkins, Adam McKay, Bret Easton Ellis and More
August 5, 2020We asked moviemakers, authors, critics, and programmers — including Kelly Reichardt, Barry Jenkins, Ashley Clark, Bret...
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Director Václav Marhoul and Sound Supervisor Pavel Rejholec on The Violent Sounds of The Painted Bird
July 16, 2020The Painted Bird follows a boy from an unnamed country through an odyssey of World War...
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Relic Cinematographer Charlie Sarroff Unveils What’s In His Camera Kit
July 10, 2020Charlie Sarroff is the cinematographer of Relic, directed by Natalie Erika James. In this piece, he...
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Why Indie Filmmakers May Have an Advantage Over Major Studios During COVID-19
June 22, 2020COVID-19 poses intense new challenges for film production, but indie filmmakers, for once, may have an...
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Kane Guglielmi Sold His House to Make Cooped Up. Now It’s the Most Timely Film of the Year
May 11, 2020Kane Guglielmi is the director of the Australian romantic comedy Cooped Up, about a man quarantined...
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Movie News
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway
April 30, 2020Film festivals give us inspiration, hope, and sometimes a huge break—things we could all use right...
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Movie News
Goodfellas: How That Very Long Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
March 22, 2020The three-minute Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and proves Henry Hill’s...
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Movie News
Coronavirus Cancellations List: Movie and TV Plans Canceled, In Peril or Delayed
March 13, 2020Coronavirus cancellations have swept the movie and television industries, just as industries worldwide have changed their...
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Movie News
Joker Production Designer Mark Friedberg Says the Script Kept Calling Out to Him from His Desk
February 13, 2020(Editor’s Note: In the feature below, Joker production designer Mark Friedberg goes over his process of...
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Movie News
Team Technicolor Shares their Color, Sound, and VFX Secrets
February 12, 2020The world of moviemaking is in a constant state of evolution, and the demand for a...
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Movie News
Post-Production Workflow Tips from Cosmic Fling Producer
February 11, 2020(Editor’s Note: In the feature below, Cosmic Fling producer Christian Hall provides a road map for...
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Movie News
Two Words Cinematographer’s Guide to Shooting on Analog Video
February 10, 2020(Editor’s Note: Narrative short Two Words follows a recently engaged couple dealing with the stress of...
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Movie News
The Lodge Co-Directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on What’s On The Page v. What Ends Up On The Screen
February 10, 2020For two moviemakers so thoroughly fascinated by familial trauma, The Lodge co-directors Veronika Franz and Severin...
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Movie News
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway Producer’s Advice: Take Risks
February 4, 2020(Editor’s Note: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is an action-comedy-mystery-fantasy about two CIA agents...
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Movie News
How Factory 25 Founder Matt Grady Survived a Near-Death Experience and Started Distributing Films
February 3, 2020(Editor’s Note: Factory 25 is a Brooklyn-based independent film distributor that has released films including Frownland, Ham on...
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Movie News
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker, 2020
January 31, 2020For MovieMaker’s Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2020 list, we made a...
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Movie News
Once Upon a Time… in Chinatown: Exclusive Excerpt From Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye
January 30, 2020(Editor’s Note: Four years after the events that Quentin Tarantino reimagined in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,...
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How The Turning Director Floria Sigismondi Battled a Storm at Ireland’s Killruddery House
January 24, 2020The Turning director Floria Sigismondi shot on location in Ireland for the film, a Turn of...
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Sundance Moviemakers Share Inside Tips — and Who They Want to Meet
January 22, 2020It’s going to be a vivacious and unforgettable Sundance Film Festival, if the responses to our...
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Relic Director Natalie Erika James: How I Felt Through the Darkness to My Sundance Debut
January 20, 2020Director Natalie Erika James makes her Sundance Film Festival feature debut this week with Relic, a...
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Why I Love Star Wars, by Rise of Skywalker’s Victoria Mahoney
December 21, 2019Victoria Mahoney, the second unit director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is, remarkably, the first...
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