MM Guide 2016

  • MM Guide 2016
  • Other

The Indie Introvert’s Guide to Networking: How to Work a Room, One Person at a Time

“Networking” can feel like a dirty word—so sleazy and sales-y, so “look at me” that it can make you cringe.…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016
  • Producing

All Crewed Up: Tips on Assembling Your Best Indie Crew

Assembling a ragtag group of brilliant, fired-up comrades and convincing them to work wonders for embarrassingly low pay—that’s kind of…

8 years ago
  • Distribution
  • MM Guide 2016

Social Media for Moviemakers: Everything You Always Wanted to Know

Keeping up with your crazy cousins, reconnecting with your high-school crush, maybe even documenting your every meal—you use social media…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016
  • Other

A Set Fit For a King: Nine Production Design Tips from Macbeth Show that Economical Can Also Mean Beautiful

“Limitations should be viewed with an eye for opportunity.” I was taught that early in my career. Of course, it…

8 years ago
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • MM Guide 2016

How to Direct Actors: Advice from Actor-Turned-Director Nick Sandow of The Wannabe

On a typically tight indie production, getting any rehearsal time at all is an uphill battle. You’re dealing with actors’…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

The Cardinal Rules of Crowdfunding:The Five Basic Tenets You Need to Follow for a Successful Campaign

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last seven years, you or someone you know has ventured into…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016

MovieMaker’s Fourth Annual Guide to Digital Distribution: A Game of Thrones

What a difference a year makes. Independent film distribution has continued its blink-of-an-eye evolution into 2015 with Video on Demand…

9 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016
  • Screenwriting

Shtumi in the Spotlight: How to Turn an Info-Heavy Story into Riveting Drama

“That first draft must have been 300 pages.” If I had a nickel for every time someone’s said this to…

9 years ago
  • Things Learned

Gaspar Noé: Things I’ve Learned As a Moviemaker

Is it easy being cinema’s reigning enfant terrible? No, but Gaspar Noé wears the title well. This year, the Argentinian…

9 years ago