All posts by Ryan Williams
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Taylor Made: Deon Taylor on How His Self-Made Moviemaking Journey Led Him to Direct Traffik
One of the hardest working filmmakers in the industry, Deon Taylor has been making features for over 10 years. His new thriller Traffik... -
Discover Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ Most Trusted and True Visual Techniques (Video)
One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always the bridesmaid and never the bride.... -
Getting to the Heart of Lady Bird: What Makes Greta Gerwig’s Debut Tick
In the pantheon of mother-daughter movies, it might seem like a simplistic statement to say that what makes Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird... -
The Art of Fear: How Christopher Nolan Uses Perspective to Express Fear in Dunkirk
Garnering Christopher Nolan his very first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, Dunkirk represents the apex of his career in... -
A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success at the... -
Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film
In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can be examined,... -
Inside The Shimmer: Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor Andrew Whitehurst Takes Us Behind Annihilation‘s Stunning VFX
Many filmmakers have attempted to translate the unknowable horrors of the Lovecraftian mythology to a visual medium. With Annihilation, Alex Garland brings... -
Exclusive: Andrea Bocelli Looks Back On His Rocky, Rewarding Life in This Clip From The Music of Silence (Video)
The Music of Silence casts a poetic lens on the life of Andrea Bocelli, the famed Italian singer who has persevered despite his... -
Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking
As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times per second,”... -
Telluride or Die: Telluride’s Student Symposium is a Young Filmmaker’s Dream Come True, Says a 2017 Grad
I had the honor of attending last weekend’s Telluride Film Festival as a member of its 44th Student Symposium, which ran August...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6