2022 Complete Guide to Making Movies

  • How to Write a Screenplay

Jockey Writers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar on What Goes Into a Healthy Writing Partnership

Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley are screenwriting partners who have worked together for 10 years. Their first feature was Transpecos,…

2 years ago
  • First Person

The Scary of Sixty-First Editor Sophie Corra Took Inspiration From Pre-Code Hollywood

Sophie Corra is the editor of The Scary of Sixty-First, the feature directorial debut from Dasha Nekrasova. In this feature,…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Power of the Dog Cinematographer Ari Wegner on the Daily Storyboarding Max ‘Before Your Brain Melts Down’

Cinematographer Ari Wegner needed a detailed spreadsheet of all the sightlines in The Power of the Dog, because the shoot…

2 years ago
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  • Movie News

King Richard: How Director Reinaldo Marcus Green and Editor Pamela Martin Avoided Just Another Tennis Movie

"Remember that little indie filmmaker? I’m making a big movie starring Will Smith!" That was how King Richard director Reinaldo…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Multiple Men Play the Zodiac Killer in Zodiac. Adam Nayman’s New Book on David Fincher Explains Why

David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac follows three men on the trail of a Bay Area serial killer known for his…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Passing Writer-Director Rebecca Hall Goes Deep on All Five Stages of Production

Passing writer-director Rebecca Hall knew for a long time that she wanted to make her own film, and paid close…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Passing: Rebecca Hall Stole a Sly Trick For Directing Actors

When actor Rebecca Hall moved into writing and directing with Passing, she brought years of observations from working with directors…

2 years ago
  • First Person

Jim Cummings on How to Make DIY Films and Put ‘Hollywood’ Out of Business

Jim Cummings is the co-writer, co-director and co-star of The Beta Test, with PJ McCabe. In this feature, Cummings explores…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Three Steps to Developing and Selling Documentaries From The Producer Behind Becoming Cousteau and Fauci

Jon Bardin is the head of creative at Story Syndicate, a New York-based film and TV production company devoted to…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Needle in a Timestack Writer-Director John Ridley on Two Methods of Writing an Adaptation

John Ridley is brilliant at adaptations: for the 2014 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, he turned Solomon Northup’s…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Bergman Island: How Two Trips to Ingmar Bergman’s Home Inspired Mia Hansen-Løve

French director Mia Hansen-Løve traveled twice to the Swedish island of Fårö as she made her film Bergman Island: once…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Lamb Started Out as an Experiment in Filmmaking

The seed for the horror film Lamb was planted when moviemaker Valdimir Jóhannsson and author-poet-screenwriter Sjón met up at a…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Mass: How Fran Kranz Wrote the Script for the School-Shooting Drama

Veteran actor Fran Kranz is the writer-director of Mass, a school-shooting drama which revolves around a reconciliation meeting between two…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Titane Director Julia Ducournau Did The Hardest Shot First

Julia Ducournau jokes that a film set is “the only place on earth where your actual character defects are an…

3 years ago