Festivals
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Black Cat Picture Show 2017: This Cat Knows Where It’s At
The Black Cat Picture Show film festival is a strange slice of paradise hidden in the small town of Augusta, Georgia. It’s... -
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.... -
AFI Fest 2017 Wrap: Team MovieMaker’s Favorites From Another Characteristically Strong Showing
Due to its placement in late Fall and the strength of its programming team, AFI Fest has always felt like a who’s-who... -
Woods Hole Film Festival 2017: Where the Call of the Sea Is Matched By the Call of Cinema and Science
When Woods Hole Film Festival Director Judy Laster invited me to work for her 26th annual festival, I jumped at the chance.... -
Austin Revolution Film Festival 2017: A DIY Uprising is Brewing at Austin’s Secret Powerhouse Fest
It sounds like a moviemaker’s version of Big Rock Candy Mountain, I know: There’s a festival out there, somewhere, where being selected... -
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017: Experimental Yet Accessible Work Populates This Quirky SoCal Fest
Recognizing a void in Southern California for experimental and truly independent cinema, Ryan Betschart and Rachel Nakawatase decided to found an independent... -
Flicks 4 Change 2017 Preview: Co-Founder James Hawthorn on What Hot-Button Issues the Fest Will Tackle
With a bevy of film festivals chasing the attention of urban dwellers in just about every metropolitan area, how does a festival... -
Sidewalk Film Festival 2017: Where You’ll Find the True Progressive Heart of the South in Birmingham
A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. stands across from the Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,... -
2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down
Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in national and... -
New Kid in Town: Animation Is Film Brings Much-Deserved Exposure to International Animated Titles
On Friday, October 20, Angelina Jolie walked the—well, blue—carpet of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for the inaugural edition of Animation Is...
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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