All posts by Valentina Valentini
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Park City 2015: 13 Picks from Sundance and Slamdance
After three exalted decades, Sundance maintains its spot on the international film festival circuit as the premiere U.S. event of the year, bringing some of...
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Festival Strategy 101: Plot the Right Course for Your Film
We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is dead on arrival. That just...
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Innovator’s Beat: The Cream of the Tech Crop at NAB 2014
Make your next birthday wishlist with our product picks from the annual NAB Show tech summit. A few years ago it was 2K, then it...
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Park City 2014: 10 Picks From Sundance and Slamdance
This is a very big year in Park City, Utah, with Sundance celebrating its 30th birthday and Slamdance its 20th as of next week. Through...
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Sundance 2013: Six Unmissable Films Premiering in Park City
We preview six narrative features to play at Sundance 2013. C.O.G. First Adaptation of David Sedaris’ Work Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez There might not be...
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Crowdfunding 2.0: How to Stand Above the Crowd
As far as fundraising for your film goes, we all know that a decade ago you couldn’t reach a woman in Calgary who had some...
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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...
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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...