Summer 2015

  • Other
  • Summer 2015

Archiving Anarchy: No One Will Save Your Film But You

What’s the most important moviemaking step you’re completely forgetting? Maybe it’s saving your film. If you’re a filmmaker reading this,…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • How They Did It
  • Summer 2015

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…

9 years ago
  • Summer 2015

Independence Transcendent: With the iPhone-Shot Tangerine, Sean Baker Makes it Look Easy

If the phrase “independent film” has in recent years felt problematic to you, with one-time rebels “going studio” and A-listers…

9 years ago
  • Documentary
  • Summer 2015

The Meth Cooks of Michoacán: Venturing into the Dark in Cartel Land

Cartel Land is about vigilantes on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who are combating a common enemy – the violent…

9 years ago
  • Crossing the Line
  • Documentary
  • Summer 2015

A Poem is a Naked Person: The Late Blooming of Les Blank’s Final Verse

On a naked corner in the American South, a young black girl boosts herself up on a yellow fire hydrant,…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Film School Advice
  • Summer 2015

Film School Alumni Advice: Dope Director Rick Famuyiwa

When MovieMaker asked a range of successful indie filmmakers to participate in our Film School Roundtable article for our upcoming…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Inside MM - Other
  • Summer 2015

10 Classic Films and What You Can Steal From Them: Courtesy of The Wolfpack

Watching movies is escape: It’s a tired cliché, but one brought hauntingly to life in first-time director Crystal Moselle’s startling…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Summer 2015

Sight, Sound and Fury: The Tribe Gives New Meaning to “Must-See”

“Like magic.” That’s how Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy describes the intricate, lightning-quick articulations of sign language. It’s also a fitting…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Film School Advice
  • Summer 2015

Film School Alumni Advice: Knock Knock Director Eli Roth

When MovieMaker asked a range of successful indie filmmakers to participate in our Film School Roundtable article for our upcoming…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Inside MM - Cinematography
  • Summer 2015
  • Whats in Your Kit

What’s in Your Kit: Cinematographer Autumn Durald

For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t…

9 years ago