As the third woman from MovieMaker to attend the Bentonville Film Festival (May 2-7, 2017) in...

Through its unprecedented success on both the festival circuit and mainstream awards platforms, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight...

A hefty slate of international films, both crowd-pleasers and more intellectually challenging fare, is the signature...

Newport Beach Film Festival’s 18th annual run has come to a close, marking another year that...

In Dallas, autumn’s arrival means there’s one cultural event not to be missed: Dallas VideoFest, a...

Recently wrapping its seventh year, Earth Day Texas is the largest annual environmental forum in the...

First-time producer Brandon Jackson, whose film This is Honduras premiered at Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in...

They had me at “Montana.” I first visited Montana six years ago to shoot my college...

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My Park City initiation was like getting hugged and slapped at the same time. I produced...

When we were putting together this year’s edition of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry...

Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you...

Forgotten in recent memory, Elia Kazan’s immigrant epic America America burst back to the big screen at...

At the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival, actors John Michael Higgins, Fred Willard, Jim Piddock and...

Among a massive slate of features screening incessantly over several weeks, a microbudget, no-name production or...

Tampa Bay’s hometown heroes don’t get much bigger than actor Patrick Wilson, who grew up in...

How can a film festival position itself better to attract great submissions and talent? One filmmaker...

We at MovieMaker have been putting out our annual “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee”...

Through characters as eclectic as a kindhearted drug dealer, a woman heading to court for love,...

Isabelle Huppert, often referred to as the greatest actress working today, is an artist with incomparable...

Moviemakers can’t attend every festival they get into. This is a matter of numbers: It is...

On a preserved film set in the mountains of western Serbia, the cobblestone streets and alleys...

Diehard Sundance Film Festival fans often point to the democratizing nature of Park City, Utah’s brutal...

Range is one of a performer’s most valuable assets. A Jewish neo-Nazi; a drug-addicted teacher; a...