Winter 2015

Winter 2015 Issue

  • Winter 2015

Ethical Exploitation: How Moviemakers Can Treat Their Unpaid Interns and Volunteers Better

“Can’t get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.”- Louis Winthorpe, III (Trading Places, 1983) In theory, an internship is a…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2015

Scar Tissue: Mommy is Xavier Dolan’s Most Serious, Sincere Film Yet

With his latest feature, Mommy, Xavier Dolan has rid himself of pretense. “I come from a very mainstream background,” the…

9 years ago
  • Winter 2015

DIY Marketing for Screenwriters: Three Screenwriting Websites That Appeal to Writers at Every Level

Last year, with a healthy dose of skepticism, I set out to learn how screenwriting websites like InkTip, Virtual Pitch…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews
  • Winter 2015

Maps to the Stars: David Cronenberg’s New Age L.A. Nightmare

Maps to the Stars, director David Cronenberg’s masterpiece about Tinseltown and its strange inhabitants, is a perfect reflection of the…

9 years ago
  • Producing
  • Winter 2015

Vigilante Film Commissioning: Film Exchange Rescues Indie Production in South Texas

“The Texas program isn’t set up for films with budgets smaller than $250,000,” says Anthony Pedone. He’s referring to the…

9 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Winter 2015

Reclaiming Rewards From Rip-Offs: How to Live with Piracy

As soon as a moviemaker fortunate enough to score a release is finished with the high fives, one of the first…

9 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Winter 2015

Sell Subscriptions, Save a Theater: Movie Heroes and the New Audience-Theater Relationship

It's no secret that the state of theatrical distribution currently leaves something to be desired, with multiplexes struggling to perform…

9 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Producing
  • Winter 2015

Independent TV’s New High: Vimeo’s High Maintenance and the Future of Series-Makers

It’s been a topsy-turvy year for the independent world, with moviemakers making TV, TV feeling more like movies, web series…

9 years ago
  • Winter 2015

More Instinct, Less Arsehole: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker by Patrick Stewart

Few actors are as iconic as Sir Patrick Stewart. In the roles of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jean-Luc Picard…

9 years ago
  • Best Of

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities

All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker…

9 years ago