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Advice From Austin: The 27 Best Things Screenwriters Said at the Austin Film Festival Writers Conference
To hear smart, funny, and interesting things about screenwriting—from people who know what they’re talking about—the place to be is the annual... -
NewFilmmakers LA: Alexis Ostrander, Heidi Hartwig, Kimmy Gatewood and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well as Amanda Lehan, Evan O’Brien, Kristyna... -
How They Did It: Building Hereditary’s Haunted Houses From Scratch Was First-Time Helmer Ari Aster’s Living Nightmare
One day during the making of Hereditary, I broke down on set. For a first film with limited resources, you need to have everything planned out to... -
Indie Law: Put the Green in Greenlight With This Guide to the Most Effective Film Financing Tactics
You went to film school, not business school—yet all the sudden you’re confronted by a bevy of fancy financial terms as you... -
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Stewart, and More in Our Portrait Gallery
What do red carpet selfies, Netflix films, and pre-premiere advance screenings have in common? They were all roundly banned at the 71st... -
Cinequest Film & VR Festival 2018: Trends Are Set, Not Followed, At This Silicon Valley-Based Multimedia Showcase
While a chilly drizzle washed away late winter with early spring in downtown San Jose, a record-breaking attendance of 105,000-plus poured down... -
Settling the Score: Director Matthew Porterfield on Selecting and Syncing Perfect Songs for Sollers Point
I’ve been committed to the idea of using mostly diegetic sound in my films. It’s not that I’m against score, I just... -
Embracing Your Inner Masochist: WIP Your Project Into Shape With Work-in-Progress Screenings
Let’s assume you’ve achieved the impossible: you’ve stressed your way through pre-production on your first feature, shot it on a shoe-string budget,... -
A Life in Pictures: Ondi Timoner on Transitioning from Docs to Narrative, Patti Smith, and Casting the Iconic Photographer in Mapplethorpe
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Ondi Timoner (Dig!, Brand: A Second Coming, Jungletown), brings a punk rock sensibility to her work. At this year’s Tribeca... -
“Someone to Last Your Whole Life”: James Ivory on Celebrating Maurice Over 30 Years Later
Hot off of his Academy Award win for Best Adapted Screenplay, James Ivory’s 1987 follow-up to A Room with a View screened at...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...1Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...