Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night…
Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and they all have one…
Development is the time when your indie’s budget needs to be put to the test. It’s also the time when…
Structure is the first thing to look at and approach as an editor. Cutting a film chronologically before breaking it…
In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all. The New German Wave…
Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…
While many indie moviemakers believe that they can find “anything on the Internet,” including cut-and-paste agreements, every situation is unique…
To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie moviemakers with films releasing…
Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I…
Horror master John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween has become so indelibly etched into the cultural consciousness, so synonymous with the…