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Milwaukee Film Festival 2017: From Star Vehicles to Indie Circuit Darlings
If you’re thinking of beer every time you mention Milwaukee, you’re not the only one. This city has a long history going... -
The Perfect Cocktail: Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival
Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival (BWiFF) was born to be original. The festival’s name may lead you to imagine a strangely colored... -
Festival Spotlight Friday: San Francisco Frozen Film Festival is Hella Chill
No one can say that the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF) is short on spirit. The festival aims to broaden its... -
Festival Spotlight Friday: Los Angeles Film Festival Celebrates 19th Year
The Los Angeles Film Festival began with a bang June 13 and runs through this Sunday, June 23rd Our new Festival Spotlight... -
Coachella: Triumphs, failures, and lessons from the inaugural AMFM Fest
The inaugural AMFM Fest, which shares a valley with the Coachella Art and Music Festival, may have been too ambitious. But the... -
Bringing Film to Coachella: AMFM Fest aims to bring film, art, and more music to the Coachella Valley
AMFM Fest, the new acronymic festival in the Coachella Valley, might just be aiming to overthrow that other four-letter film and music... -
Screenin’ in the Rain: Notes on Cannes 2013, Part I
It wasn’t until the midpoint of a drizzlier and gustier than usual edition of the Cannes Film Festival that the red carpets... -
If Only I Could Cannes:
Festival de Cannes is upon us. Like me, you wish you were there. Or unlike me, you are there, which raises the...
9 Cannes premieres to look out for (that I won’t get to see till they come to New York) -
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles: LA’s only monthly film festival moves to the AT&T Center
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles — LA’s only monthly film festival — has relocated its screening series from the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood... -
Nairobi Half Life: Endorsed by the Kenyan Embassy
Washington, D.C.—This morning, the Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half Life, a Kenyan film screening today...
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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, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
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 one thing all of those stories have in common is...6