Directing
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How to Develop the Story Beats in Your Screenplay
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let’s start with a cold realization: On the surface, directing doesn’t seem to require many...
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Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire
In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the novelist and androgynous socialite superstar Vita Sackville-West stopped to...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Maha Al Saati, Mary Lyn Chambers, Ludovica Isidori, David Plasencia, and More
The latest installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations about movies directed by the above filmmakers, as well as Aubry Mintz, Brad McDermott, and...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto...
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Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content
Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their dedication to consistently brewing the best lager possible challenges...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...