Spring 2019

Spring 2019 Issue

  • Festivals

Fest Beat: Locals and Visitors Celebrate with Southern Punk Bands and Sangria-Filled Soirées at Oxford Film Festival

In the far northwest corner of Mississippi lies the city of Oxford. Author and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner hung…

5 years ago
  • Spring 2019

Loro: For a Balanced and Trusting Actor-Director Partnership, Learn to Live in Each Other’s Creative Place

Before it made its world premiere in the Masters programme of the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, Italian…

5 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960

With biographies, documentaries, and podcasts telling the stories of Greta Garbo, James Cagney, and other classic film stars, some have…

5 years ago
  • Spring 2019

Breaking and Entering, Part Two: A Map To Finding Feature Funding

If you didn't read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the Winter 2019 issue of…

5 years ago
  • Spring 2019

MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly

In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states: “Writing is finally about…

5 years ago
  • Spring 2019

A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World

A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the night. She remembers her…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Beat: Intimate Guest Appearances, Lively Panels, and Eats Aplenty at San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

When I was a kid, I loved going to summer camp. I ate... a lot. Even as a child, I…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Festival Beat: International Auteur Works and Surreal Live Performances at Küstendorf Film and Music Festival 2019

The 12th annual Küstendorf Film and Music Festival opened with a flourish in the form of a 50-piece Moldovan orchestra.…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Beat: Unique Human Stories and an Underdog Ethos Fuel Slamdance on the Proud Park City Fest’s 25th Anniversary

Three bloody marys in, sitting next to my 77-year-old mother on the plane, all I was trying to do was…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Production Diaries: Trial by Fire Director Edward Zwick and Crew Started Their Shoot by Lighting an On-Screen Inferno

Based on the George Polk Award-winning New Yorker article of the same name, director Edward Zwick’s Trial by Fire chronicles…

5 years ago