All posts by N.L. Brooks
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The 40 Best Film Schools In The U.S. and Canada 2019
Let’s start our list of the best film schools in the U.S. and Canada with an anecdote about the importance of film school. Auteur extraordinaire...
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Moviemaker Hus Miller Saved 10 Percent of His Debut Indie Feature’s Budget Through MovieMaker Production Services
Necessity is the mother of invention. Filmmakers truly are alchemists when it comes to turning zero funds into a hero’s run. Writer-actor-producer Hus Miller spun...
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Road-Tripping: Director Sebastian Schipper on Why Shooting Roads Chronologically Was His Film’s Best Path Forward
Rarely is a film shot chronologically. But then Roads is a unique feature. Inspired by children’s literary classic Where The Wild Things Are, it is...
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MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly
In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states: “Writing is finally about one thing: going into a...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
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 are just a handful...
1Inside 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 Antarctic waters as...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...