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July 3, 2017
To make The Midnighters, writer-director Julian Fort tapped into his experience as a Paramount Lot security guard to make connections…
June 30, 2017
To depict Las Vegas in a fresh way for his feature, this indie moviemaker hedged his bets on BlackMagic, Nikon…
June 12, 2017
New and non-actors don’t put up a lot of walls and barriers in their performances. This technique yielded the most…
June 7, 2017
We live in a world that is scored. I intended for Score: A Film Music Documentary to unravel the creative…
May 31, 2017
Harold and Lillian Michelson's contributions to cinema come to light in Daniel Raim’s documentary Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love…
May 30, 2017
The second part of our preservation 101 series, "Playing for Keeps," covers the biggest problems facing digital moviemakers today.
May 26, 2017
Werner Herzog told moviemaking students at his workshop in Western Cuba there would be no planning allowed, and even forged…
May 24, 2017
In 1970, Sheldon Renan made a proposal to the National Endowment of the Arts. Why not support a network of…
May 23, 2017
One eighth of a page: equal ink, but not equal time on the screen. A veteran assistant director on how…
May 17, 2017
In their appropriately titled feature doc debut, Burden, Marrinan and Dewey trace Chris Burden from his rebellious origins up until…