How They Did It
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On the Inside: To Make His Feature Shot Caller, Ric Roman Waugh Learned How to Shoot in a Real-Life Prison
Shot Caller was the most physically demanding film I ever shot: an authentic look at our prison gangs and the law enforcement... -
Knowing When to End It: Our Doc On a Knife Edge Took Seven Years to Make. Here’s What We Learned on the Way
For several years, our documentary On a Knife Edge had a great beginning and a wonderful middle, but no end in sight.... -
How They Did It: This Small Indie Documentary Team Tackled NASCAR in New Series Road to Race Day
Imagine an expanse of asphalt over a mile long and half a mile wide, filled with 40 race cars and thousands of... -
How They Did It: Designing the Amputee Protagonist of Ana Lily Amirpour’s Dystopian Desert Trip, The Bad Batch
There were quite a few visual effects challenges I had to tackle in making my second feature, The Bad Batch: multiple matte... -
How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Lenses? For the Director of Midnighters, These Were Worth the Effort
It’s five in the morning and I’m starting to shiver. The thermometer hovers at 10 degrees but it feels like it’s negative... -
How They Did It: Eliza Sherman’s Revenge Made, Then Ripped Off a Prosthetic Arm Without Paying an Arm and a Leg
No-budget indie moviemaking is hard enough as it is, but when you decide to throw in visual effects, it can really test... -
From Russia With Love… and Money: How Moscow Never Sleeps Secured Funds By Any Means Necessary
The Nazis reached the outskirts of Moscow. Napoleon entered it. Stalin loomed over it for decades. Monuments to past glories and tragedies... -
How They Did It: The Director of One Less God Used "Re-Voicing" Tricks to Fine-Tune Foreign-Language Performances
The attacks of November 2008 in Mumbai brought India and much of the world to a standstill. Although India has endured repeated... -
How They Did It: Burning Annie Arrived at Distribution After a Long, Long Decade Of Catastrophes
If an indie film is lucky enough to get distribution at all, the release is its one shot, a match you can’t... -
How They Did It: Take Me Trusted Test Crowds to Cut a Tighter Story and Get More Laughs (Exclusive BTS Photos)
It all looked good on paper. And during shooting. And even during the first month or so of editing. But during the...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2