In a year where Netflix has continued to grow at an astounding rate, the streaming platform’s...

As a cinematographer the first thing you need to do is understand exactly what your director...

Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in...

Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative,...

Everyone is acutely aware of the creative impact that cinematographers, editors, production designers, and even the glamour...

The longevity of Matt Dillon’s laudable career is a byproduct of his self-reinvention. Oscillating between charismatic...

Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples...

Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for...

Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and...

Development is the time when your indie’s budget needs to be put to the test. It’s...

Structure is the first thing to look at and approach as an editor. Cutting a film...

In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all....

Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept...

While many indie moviemakers believe that they can find “anything on the Internet,” including cut-and-paste agreements,...

To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie...

Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016...

Horror master John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween has become so indelibly etched into the cultural consciousness,...

I’ve wanted to make films for a long time, but my problem was always the ability...

When I wrote the screenplay for What They Had, my debut feature about a family thrown...

In roles that span a career of over four decades, Michael Ironside has inhabited characters with...

The process of adaptation is always different depending on what source material you’re working with, but...