Winter 2019

  • Winter 2019

Montana Int’l Film Festival 2018: Eclectic Curation and After-Hours Karaoke Make Year One as Natural as Nature Itself

I’ve heard that Montana is a quest of sorts: beautiful in scope, yet full of potential agonies for the uninitiated.…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Milwaukee Film Festival 2018: Cream City Hosts Cream of the Crop in Local, Awards-Contending, and Lost Silent Cinema

Milwaukee may not be the first city that jumps to mind when thinking of the film industry as a whole.…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Shooting on Film in the Digital Age: What You Need to Know If You’re Still Taking Stock in Film Stock

When director Yen Tan and I first started talking about his new feature, 1985, we knew immediately that we wanted to shoot on Super 16mm…

5 years ago
  • Cinema Law

Indie Law: How to Secure and Hold the Rights to Your Project

In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that the key to success…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Eye Piece: Spherical Lenses and Calculated Color Choices Allowed the Visuals of Birds of Passage to Take Flight

Depicting the ancestral culture of the Wayuu—a Native American group indigenous to northern Colombia—and shedding light on their complex relationship with death and dreams, directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support

"I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit by the proverbial bug. “My…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Direct From Video: How Directing Music Videos Can Make You a Better Feature Moviemaker

When I was playing drums in the Swedish black metal band Bathory in the early 1980s, it took me a little while to realize…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

How They Did It: Asghar Farhadi Lived in the Country of His Spanish-Speaking Stars to Write and Direct Everybody Knows

Before I went to Spain to make my new film Everybody Knows—a thriller which follows the tumultuous events that ensue when Laura (Penélope Cruz) returns to…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Color Commentary: A Seasoned Colorist Breaks Down the Process, and How It Will Enhance Your Movie

Your colorist is the most elusive-yet integral member of your post-production team. Whether you’re aware of it or not, color’s unique essence directly influences our emotional and psychological states.…

5 years ago
  • Inside MM - 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…

5 years ago