Articles – Festivals
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Palm Springs International Film Festival: This Palm Springs film festival programs the best in international cinema
I have a propensity for severe landscapes. Minimalist architecture excites me. Between a rain forest and a desert, I prefer the desert. When faced with...
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Indie Memphis Film Festival: The premiere Memphis festival offers brilliant docs and backyard keggers
I am always excited when I get the chance to return to Memphis. After spending nine months there filming the documentary Undefeated, the city has become...
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Humphrey Bogart Film Festival: Bogie returns to Key Largo for this beach-side festival
The first weekend in May, 2013, fans of the cultural icon Humphrey Bogart—the man that the American Film Institute ranked as “the greatest male star...
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Austin Film Festival: The best film festival in Austin?
In 2009, my first feature, ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, screened at the Austin Film Festival (AFF) in the Alamo Draft House. It was fantastic. To...
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Cinequest 2013: 4k technology and an international lineup make the Bay Area festival unmissable
Now in its 23rd year, Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) is devoted to discovering exciting up-and-coming moviemakers, as well as showcasing the most dynamic films, artists and...
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Focus Forward: Helping documentary moviemakers share their visions
With its impressive pedigree and thought-provoking line-up, Focus Forward is quickly emerging as one of the best online documentary showcases around. Presented by GE and...
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Rotterdam 2013: Hivos Tiger Award-winner Daniel Hoesl discusses Soldate Jeannette
The 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, as always, awarded some of the most progressive young filmmakers in the world with the coveted Hivos Tiger Award....
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Kustendorf 2013: Kneecapping the press and directors
Emir Kusturica, founder and director of the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival, pulled in a number of fascinating directors to talk about their work following...
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Kustendorf 2013: A dispatch from the mountains of Serbia
The Kustendorf Film and Music festival—which runs concurrently with another snowy, high-altitude American film festival—opened Wednesday, January 16th on a soggy night in the mountains...
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Sundance Dispatch 05: MovieMaker sits down with Grand Jury and Audience Award-winner Ryan Coogler of Fruitvale, the team behind the 99% documentary, and the President of Yekra
In this fifth and final episode, MovieMaker sits down with 2013 Grand Jury and Audience Award-winning director Ryan Coogler of Fruitvale. Later we chat with...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...