All posts by Ryan Stewart
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Small Cities and Towns
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those... -
The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those... -
Dream-Come-True Scenario: Scenarios USA Pairs Students with Big-Name Professional Talent
Scenarios USA, a national nonprofit with an educational mandate, teams its annual writing contest winner with a working filmmaker to collaborate on... -
Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History
Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003 documentary series... -
“Wild Animals Are Infinitely Fascinating:” Hitchcock Star Tippi Hedren Talks The Birds, Lions and Tigers
“The interplay between Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette in The Birds tells me more about women than any number of articles on... -
Paradise Lost: Viggo Mortensen Heads a Brood of Survivalists in Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Are there chances in life for little dirt cowboys / Should I make my way out of my home in the woods...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2