MM Guide 2019

  • Inside MM - Distribution

A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go

Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Looks That Kill: Eleven Horror DPs Reveal the Tricks and Tech Behind the Year’s Scariest Shooting Schemes

Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and they all have one…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Indie Law: Make Your Feature’s Development Less Dicey With Loyal Legal Counsel and Financing Foresight

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

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

The Business of Order: A Veteran Editor Breaks Down How To Shape, Switch, and Structure Your Film’s Chronology

Structure is the first thing to look at and approach as an editor. Cutting a film chronologically before breaking it…

6 years ago
  • Crossing the Line

The Man in Bergman: A New German Cinema Pioneer’s Search for the Heart and Soul of Ingmar Bergman’s Legacy

In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all. The New German Wave…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Going to Extremes: To Create Horror That Shatters the Senses, Be Sensitive to Emotional Extremity

Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…

6 years ago
  • Other

Madhouse Lawyer: Two Seasoned Attorneys’ Semi-Scary Overview of Indie Genre Production’s Necessary Legal Evils

While many indie moviemakers believe that they can find “anything on the Internet,” including cut-and-paste agreements, every situation is unique…

6 years ago
  • Inside MM - Directing

MovieMaker Melee: 1985 and Tyrel Writer-Directors Yen Tan and Sebastián Silva Debate Their Processes’ Pros and Cons

To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie moviemakers with films releasing…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

The Road Less Traveled: To Get Your Indie Made, Treat Your Crew Like Your Family and Put Your Audience Above Yourself

Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I…

6 years ago
  • Screenwriting

Keep It Simple, Keep It Relentless: Halloween‘s David Gordon Green and Danny McBride On Horror Screenwriting

Horror master John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween has become so indelibly etched into the cultural consciousness, so synonymous with the…

6 years ago