Festivals
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Exclusive Preview: New Media Film Festival 2018 to Offer Emmy Consultation and Broadcasting
An all-encompassing media art showcase, New Media Film Festival (NMFF) continues to carve its own niche as it celebrates its ninth year... -
Durango Independent Film Festival 2018: A Dedicated Staff Moves Mountains at This Old West-Tinged Fest
Nestled tightly in the mountains of Southern Colorado, Durango Independent Film Festival’s (February 28-March 4, 2018) home turf charms with a unique... -
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival: Jury Members, Including MovieMaker’s Tim Rhys, Announce 2018 Award Winners
The fourth annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners on its closing night at the... -
Festival Spotlight: HorrorHound Director Jason Hignite on the Genre Convention’s Evolution into Adding a Film Festival
Lurking in the midwestern shadows of Indianapolis and Cincinnati lies something full of more horror than any convention center could ever fathom….... -
Bentonville Film Festival 2018: At This Fun, Forward-Thinking Fest, Calls For Inclusivity Are Backed By Hard Data
“I’ve always felt that the gender disparity on screen is the most easily-fixed area of inequality,” says Bentonville Film Festival co-founder Geena... -
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2018: A Vital Community of Cinematic Truth-Seekers in the American South
If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would the title of a moviemaker panel... -
Edmonton International Film Festival 2017: The Fest Grind Feels Less Brutal, More Rewarding at This Canadian Hub
The festival circuit is a beating. Like traveling salesmen of the past, we, the indie moviemakers of the world, travel from town... -
Festival Wrap: Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival 2018
“Bound by Film” was the slogan of the 2018 Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival (January 16-21, 2018). We are all bound... -
FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes of a mountain-perched farmhouse and one... -
Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema
From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure. Indeed, the...
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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...1Inside 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