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Weisz Beyond Her Years: From Optioned Novel to Arthouse Drama, Rachel Weisz Nurtured Disobedience at Every Stage
Facing down a casting system that has historically held out on women over the age of...
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How They Did It: Juggling Three Hats to Make the 12-Day, Five-City Feature Toss It
How did Michele Remsen write, direct, produce, and act in her first feature film Toss It? Not a...
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Digging a Hole Where the Rain Gets In: How Days of Power Crafted a Low-Budget Character Death
“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”—Werner Herzog When we...
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What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the...
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Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a...
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How They Did It: The Producer of Destination Unknown Spent Over a Decade Collecting Interviews With Holocaust Survivors
Despite being clad in all-weather gear, I remained chilled to the bone on an early morning...
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A Strong Film is a Diverse Film: Hire Smart, Hire Wide, Make a Stand
There it is again—that dirty D-word. Diversity gets a lot of lip service. With so many...
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Chasing Trane: The Making and Experiential Marketing of the John Coltrane Documentary
When I first got the call about the chance to be part of the sanctioned John...
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Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film
Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling...
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Watch and Learn: Walkie-Talkie Lingo Everyone On Set Should Know (Video)
New to set? StudioBinder has broken down the lingo so that the next time someone tells...
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Wu-Tang Forever: What an Inclusive Crew Means, and Why Hiring One Will Change Your Life
I talk to myself. I do it so frequently I’m pretty sure my neighbors think I...
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How They Did It: I Set a Start Date for My $250,000 Film, September Morning, and Stuck to it No Matter What
“How did you find the money?” That’s the question I’ve gotten most from my fellow indie...
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Getting Lucky in Nevada: With a Restored Tax Incentive and Plenty of Locations, There’s More to Nevada Than Casinos
Showbiz. Shenanigans. Sizzle. Sin City has long played home to high-octane cinematic productions. More often than...
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Numerous Projects in Various Stages of Development: Summer—Fall 2017
Here we keep tabs on some ready-to-roll indie features being made from summer of this year...
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On the Lookout For Your Next Location? Don’t Forget These Eight Keys to Foolproof Scouting (Video)
When scouting for locations, moviemakers automatically consider what’s going to be in the frame, but sometimes tend to...
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The Tipping Point: How a Bartender Used Take-Home Cash to Self-Fund His $15K Feature
On my last day of film school, my class had a career advisor come in to...
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Thinking Of Joining the Producers Guild? Here’s Why I Joined, and How To Get In
Producers see films through from concept to the finish line. Producers are creative visionaries, leaders. They help...
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Continental Divides: Could a U.S. Film Commission, Like The National Ones in Europe, Ever Add Up?
When surveying the messy U.S. landscape of ever-changing film incentives and the fluctuating health of state...
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How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often...
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James Gunn Goes Dark Again: As Writer-Producer of The Belko Experiment, He Doesn’t Hold Back
Now best known as the mind behind Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (and its highly anticipated...
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Wine Country Rendezvous: The Making of You Can’t Say No, Starring Peter Fonda and Friends
Roman philosopher Seneca famously said that luck is what occurs when the crossroads of preparation and...
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