Gap financing: You may have heard the term before. But what does it mean—and, more importantly,...

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If you’re a would-be moviemaker nervous about the dive from a non-creative job into the risky...

Two first-time filmmakers team up to make a microbudget, DIY fantasy-horror feature about “a portal that...

Behind the Gate is co-directors Jack Lucarelli and Mark Giardino’s documentary about the tremendous efforts that...

This Wisdom Wednesday, producer Randy Bobbitt (It’s Gawd) shares invaluable lessons he’s learned about the SAG...

Larry Fessenden, producer of the new documentary American Jesus, explains why Glass Eye Pix became involved in...

You just got a great concept for a short film. It moves you. It excites you....

It’s often said that creating a boot-strapped, no-budget independent film is a lot like raising a...

Fact or fiction? For this week’s DIY Monday MovieMaker is exploring how to limit your liability when...

Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, explains why crowdfunding is more about the crowd than...

Stanley Kubrick and Robert Bresson each helmed 13 feature films over the span of their careers....

John T. Trigonis, Category Marketing Manager of Film, Web and Video at Indiegogo, takes an instructional...

We’ve all seen those stately biopics (usually with Oscar aspirations), in which renowned actors portray real-life...

Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who’d made fortunes in Silicon...

If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut...

Prologue This is the article you’ve been waiting for. You have a movie that you’re aching...

If the rules don’t make sense, a hustler (and every independent moviemaker must be a hustler)...

As far as fundraising for your film goes, we all know that a decade ago you...

My name is Sam Mestman, and I run a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto...

In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a...

With our world’s amazing technology making spectacular cameras small, cheap and ubiquitous, new types of moviemaking...