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Crowdfunding 2.0: How to Stand Above the Crowd
As far as fundraising for your film goes, we all know that a decade ago you...
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We Make Movies (Better): Please Don’t Have the Following Conversation About Your Movie with Anyone
When I talk to filmmakers, way too often I have a version of the following conversation:...
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We Make Movies: How I Started an Indie Film Collective
My name is Sam Mestman, and I run a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto...
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AFI is a wrap, but Maja Milos’ CLIP is still haunting me
My girlfriend and I managed to attend eight films at AFI this year over the course...
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Resurrecting Sixto Rodriguez: Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugarman
In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a...
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Lights, Camera, Social Action: The Disposable Film Festival
With our world’s amazing technology making spectacular cameras small, cheap and ubiquitous, new types of moviemaking...
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Jennifer Fox Turns to Crowdfunding for My Reincarnation
When moviemaker Jennifer Fox (“Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman”) completed her latest project—the documentary My...
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“Write What You Know”: Michael Connors on Allegiance’s move from short to feature film
Writer/director Michael Connors’ Allegiance (Working Title: Recalled), based on his award-winning 2006 thesis short of the...
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James Franco vs. the Fact Checkers Unit
Director Dan Beers’ moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which...
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What The Dictator Learned from Borat
From Cannes to Hollywood, Sacha Baron Cohen is back in the news this week as his...
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From Penguins to Pirates: The Best of Aardman
After taking a detour into the world of CGI for last year’s Arthur Christmas, Aardman Animations—the...
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Become a Professional Producer with the ProShow Competition
It doesn’t matter whether your film dream job is directing, writing or producing—if your goal is...
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Bringing Suspicion to the Big Screen
When I moved to Los Angeles in 2007, I didn’t know I wanted to be a...
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Hooray for The Artist!
Awards season is over for another year. Last night’s Oscars saw the big award go to—surprise,...
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Bringing the Movies to Michigan
What do Real Steel, Up in the Air and Youth in Revolt all have in common?...
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The Artist Dominates at the 2012 BAFTA Awards
As expected, The Artist was the big winner at last night’s Orange British Academy Film Awards—or,...
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Annie ♥s Rango
It’s not time for the Oscars yet, but the Annies have already rolled into town. Last...
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Say Hello to Your 2012 Oscar Nominees
This morning saw the announcement of the 2012 Academy Award nominations, and while many of the...
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PGA Win Helps The Artist Break (Further) from the Pack
The Artist continued its intermittent awards season domination on Saturday, winning the Producers Guild of America...
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Exploring the Mystery of Creativity with Old School New School
My documentary Old School New School explores the nature of creativity, all within the context of...
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The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lead 2012 BAFTA Award Nominations
Though Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been notably absent from much of the awards...
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The Artist Comes Out on Top at the Golden Globes
At last night’s Golden Globes, it was Oscar frontrunner The Artist that came out on top,...
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Steven Spielberg Leads Producers Guild Award Nominations
The Artist, considered by many to be a frontrunner for awards season supremacy come this February’s...
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Putting the Steel in Real Steel
In Real Steel, Hugh Jackman plays ex-boxer Charlie Kenton who, along with his estranged 11-year-old son,...
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