How They Did It
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Thank You, Internet: How Social Media Sparked and Enabled the Documentary Twinsters
Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who in 2013 discovered their strikingly similar appearances through YouTube....
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Baby, You’re the One(r): How 10.000 KM Nailed the 23-Minute Opening Take
10.000 KM opens on a couple, Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer), making love in their bedroom, early morning in Barcelona. Post-coitus, they talk...
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How They Did It: Scene Won’t Work? Nix the Dialogue, in Echoes of War
When my writing partner, John Chriss, and I finished writing our thriller western feature, Echoes of War, we felt really good about it. Our two...
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How They Did It: Terrorist Marketing Puts Wild in Blue on the Map
“A man once said there is no such thing as a film. The film does not exist; all that exists is a documentary on the...
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How They Did It: Flooding Locations and Trained Flies in the Making of Across the Sea
Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature, Across the Sea, on the...
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How They Did It: Turning Problems into Opportunities on Amira & Sam
Writer/director and New York Army National Guard officer, Sean Mullin, makes his feature debut with Amira & Sam, a film about a soldier re-integrating with...
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Tales of Halloween: 10 Short Stories Collide in Axelle Carolyn’s Orgy of Blood and Guts
It’s scary to think that the new year is officially three weeks old. Even scarier? The thought of Halloween in January. But for horror aficionado...
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Eye Piece: DP Rachel Morrison Goes Underground on Little Accidents
Little Accidents was a cinematographer’s dream to shoot. I have always been fascinated with Appalachia – the beauty and infinite possibility of its vast landscape...
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Real-World Danger: J.C. Chandor on A Most Violent Year‘s Action Sequences
A Most Violent Year, director J.C. Chandor’s third feature after Margin Call (2011) and All is Lost (2013), packs an unsentimental punch: It unfolds over...
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How They Did It: Maximizing the Impact of an Opening Sequence in Benny Loves Killing
Writer-director Ben Woodiwiss breaks down the intricately crafted opening sequence of his feature debut, the psychological thriller Benny Loves Killing. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Benny Loves Killing is...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...