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“Matters of the Heart”: Alan Rudolph and Keith Carradine Reflect on Their 40 Year Working Relationship
Beginning his career as an A.D. on the sets of his mentor Robert “Bob” Altman’s The...
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Cinema Law: Unions For Dummies
Do you need a union to make your film? You must have asked yourself this before....
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Exclusive: Ultrasound Images Spark a Timely Debate in This Clip from Leena Pendharkar’s 20 Weeks (Video)
With 35 weeks in a traditional nine-month pregnancy, there’s a good 245 days (give or take)...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: How to Create Drama from Internal Conflict and Ironic Suspense
To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous...
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2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Ten Moviemakers Share the Lessons They Learned While Making Their Nominated Films
Outside of the dozen or so studio releases that capture the attention of major awards voting...
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Inside The Shimmer: Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor Andrew Whitehurst Takes Us Behind Annihilation‘s Stunning VFX
Many filmmakers have attempted to translate the unknowable horrors of the Lovecraftian mythology to a visual...
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VEGAS Pro 15: Providing Filmmakers a Unique and Fully Customizable Workflow
The latest version of VEGAS Pro 15 once again establishes the software as a leading video...
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Exclusive: Psychoanalyze This in the Trailer for Cinema Libre’s Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity To Be Free (Video)
“What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.”—Lou Andreas-Salomé Andreas-Salomé may...
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Sundance Runsheet: Attending Filmmakers Shouldn’t Fest Without Checking These Boxes First
Upon learning you are invited to Sundance, you should immediately (if you haven’t already)… 1. Hire...
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Exclusive: Still Waters Run Deep in This Clip from Kate Can’t Swim (Video)
Surviving your 20s can feel like navigating a minefield of embarrassment and rejection, set to detonate....
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Exclusive: Nick Thune and Kaily Smith Westbrook Trip on the Digital Age in This Clip From People You May Know (Video)
At what point will our online presences actually define who we are? Have we already reached...
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Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters,...
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Indie Spirit Nominations: 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards Name Their 2017 Film Picks
The Film Independent Spirit Awards announced the nominations today for the 33rd edition of the awards,...
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2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down
Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative,...
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New Kid in Town: Animation Is Film Brings Much-Deserved Exposure to International Animated Titles
On Friday, October 20, Angelina Jolie walked the—well, blue—carpet of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for...
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Louisiana Film Prize: An Event Unlike Any Other, Offers $50K to Prove It
Autographed photos line the walls of the small coffee shop inside the Hilton Hotel in Shreveport,...
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Tough Crowd: The Director of Touched Recalls His Screening of the Film From Inside a Maximum Security Prison
I was in Germany in September to premiere Touched, a feature film I’d directed, but within 36...
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Cinema Law: Enforcing Your Rights (When They Haven’t Been Paid For)
Q: I did CGI work for a film and our contract states that they don’t acquire...
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Along For the Ride: How I Spent Three and a Half Years on the Road With Dennis Hopper’s Right-Hand Man
Let’s rewind to over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager. To best frame up...
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Exclusive: Watch Aml Ameen Navigate the Dark Side of Wall Street in This Clip From The Price (Video)
What’s the price one pays for a cushy job on Wall Street? That’s one of the...
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Beyond The Forest: How the Director Of Red Trees Brought Her Family’s Survival Story From Short to Feature Doc
There I was, in the presence of a rock ‘n’ roll lawyer, palming through a contract....
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The Conviction of a Misguided Visionary: These Three Prison Inmates Are Looking To Moviemaking As Their Salvation
There’s a lot of tough talk about braving the “art life,” and with good reason. Trying...
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All Sides of the Moon: A Look at Luminary Lunar Films of Cinema History
The Moon: bringer of the tides, stealer of light, trickster of the night sky. The Moon...
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On Accountability: Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis Tell the Story Less Told in the Piercing Whose Streets?
In the now perpetual state of tension that engulfs this country, it’s easy to forget recent...
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