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Indie Law: How to Secure and Hold the Rights to Your Project
In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that...
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Color Commentary: A Seasoned Colorist Breaks Down the Process, and How It Will Enhance Your Movie
Your colorist is the most elusive-yet integral member of your post-production team. Whether you’re aware of it or not, color’s unique essence directly...
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Deep in the Heart of Waco: Behind the Scenes of the Small Texas City and its Burgeoning Film Festival
Located right in between Texan powerhouses Houston and Austin, Waco has been slowly but surely making...
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Natural Storytellers: How Hiring a Crew of 90 Percent Women Strengthened Suzi Yoonessi’s Unlovable
I wouldn’t call the suburbs of Buffalo, New York a melting pot. But the world always...
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Madhouse Lawyer: Two Seasoned Attorneys’ Semi-Scary Overview of Indie Genre Production’s Necessary Legal Evils
While many indie moviemakers believe that they can find “anything on the Internet,” including cut-and-paste agreements,...
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Go Where the Story Takes You: How the Moviemakers Behind The Advocates Shaped Their Documentary
In 2015 at a café with my friend George Haas, a Buddhist, a panhandler approached us...
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Book Review: Ad Nauseam is a Charming Trip Through Curated ’80s Horror Newsprint Ads
Like your favorite fright flick marathon, Michael Gingold’s Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s is a nostalgic...
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Stayin’ Alive: What Keeps You Alive‘s Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen on Surviving a Career Wearing Multiple Hats
Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What...
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From Argento to Leone: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Dissect the Genre Influences of Let the Corpses Tan
As Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue to refine the giallo-inflected post-modern aesthetic they first explored in...
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Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)
It’s like they always say: if your marriage isn’t going the way you planned, try to...
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Swimming With the Stream: Entertainment Lawyer Lisa Callif on Creating Content in the Digital Era
Content creators in the digital era have it pretty good. You can create content on a...
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Exclusive: Boogie Woogie to Ari Gold’s Musically-Inclined Nostalgic Drama The Song of Sway Lake
A valuable jazz record incites a romantic adventure in the ripples of a nostalgic lakeside community....
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On Greta Garbo’s Greatness: An Appreciation of the Silent Icon’s Sound Star Turn in Queen Christina
“Spoils, glory, flags and trumpets! What is behind these high-sounding words? Death and destruction, triumphals of...
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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...
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Best of a Backlot: A Veteran AD Tests Top Tech From Cine Gear Expo 2018 So You Don’t Have To
With its aisles upon aisles of eye candy for the big kids into cameras, grips and...
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Many Hat Tricks: Key Ingredients to Running a Successful Network from WOWOW’s Head of U.S. Operations
Nearing 3 million subscribers, Tokyo-based WOWOW quickly became Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster and on...
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No Worries: Joaquin Phoenix and Gus Van Sant Drop Their Guard in Our Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Gallery
Reflecting on the 23 years he and Joaquin Phoenix have stayed close since making To Die...
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The 10 Most Indie-Friendly Products From NAB Show 2018
To describe the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas as “huge” understates...
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Keep on Keepin’ On: Mario Van Peebles on How His Father Brought Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to Life
A trailblazer in radical 1970s cinema, Melvin van Peebles’ home-grown experimental milestone gained a new audience...
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Wellman on Wellman: Reflections on the Enduring Legacy of A Star is Born at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Seven decades, three remakes, and a collective 17 Oscar nominations haven’t distorted or even dented the...
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Snapshots of a Set: The Importance of Dedicated Unit Still Photography for Your Production
Throughout my 20 years working in the film and television, I have observed still photography to...
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