Sophie Jonsson

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Spirit Awards Nominees Tell Us What They Learned While Making Their Films

The Film Independent Spirit Awards weren't quite the hottest ticket in Hollywood this weekend, as host Aubrey Plaza noted in…

4 years ago
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How Little Women Uses Color to Create a Story Within a Story

Greta Gerwig's Little Women shows us from the start how tirelessly Jo March, played by Saoirse Ronan, works to sell…

4 years ago
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Ethan Hawke Shows the Power of Empathy and Love in Adopt a Highway

Huddled together in a dingy motel room in a scene from Logan Marshall-Green's Adopt a Highway, a former prisoner, played…

4 years ago
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How Burning Cane’s Phillip Youmans Became an Award-Winning Moviemaker at 19

Phillip Youmans was a teenage actor working on a low-budget superhero movie when he noticed he wasn't as interested in…

5 years ago
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Midnight Traveler: a Family’s Phones Document the Refugee Crisis

Midnight Traveler, a new documentary from producers Emelie Coleman Mahdavian and Su Kim, uses one of our most familiar possessions…

5 years ago
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Book Review: The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens (The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image)

In Gustavo Mercado’s newest book, The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens, the award-winning independent moviemaker turned professor explores…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos

With Hollywood in its second year of the #MeToo era, more than ever, films, festivals, and studios are doing their…

5 years ago