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Writer-director/actor/producer Michele Remsen just premiered her debut feature Toss It at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Here she breaks…
Mark Schimmel, director of the upcoming short "Kill the Light," diagrams his process for successfully shooting a 22-minute film in…
Finding affordable gear entails endless rummaging. More than ever, there are great alternative gear sources providing affordable equipment across America.
Stuck is an original musical about a NYC subway train that stops in a tunnel beneath the city, with six…
My DP and I quickly agreed that there was no other way to shoot our "gothic fairy tale" Midnighters than…
The feature film Band Aid not only represents Zoe Lister-Jones’ directorial debut, but also her voice - in more ways…
I’m beguiled by that cinematic U.S.A.—exotic, muscular. Looking back to those films, that’s what I hope is the blood heritage…
Our documentary God Knows Where I Am explores Linda Bishop's life and death, asking how America's mental health system ultimately…
Today, just days before the release of my first feature film, Run the Tide, flipping through my initial lookbook feels…
Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs,” Moonlight is…
Cinematographer Elliot Davis, editor Steven Rosenblum and director/star Nate Parker discuss their collaborative process on The Birth of a Nation.
Cinematographer Bérénice Eveno uses her camera to represent the complex themes of The Free World—freedom, confinement, isolation, and violence.
The title of Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl, alludes to Leah, a college student on a New York coming-of-age adventure, played…
I have made several movies with director Drake Doremus, including Like Crazy and Breathe In. Equals was going to require…
Today we round out our exploration of Jeremy Saulnier's siege thriller Green Room with an extended interview with DP Sean…
In Bad Hurt, the Staten Island-based Kendall family’s battle to stay together as they care for a daughter with special…
Yves Bélanger belongs to a coterie of French-Canadian filmmakers who’ve caught Hollywood’s attention in recent years. Joined by directors Jean-Marc…
Hank Bedford recreated William Eggleston's distinctive images of the American South in his feature Dixieland, a romantic crime thriller set…
Entertainment, Rick Alverson's latest work after 2012's The Comedy, uses these misled expectations as the basis to create a narrative…
"I look at the movie like it's an album," said Josh Mond, whose directorial debut, James White, plays like a…
Cary Fukunaga's visually bold, riveting drama Beasts of No Nation is based on a 2005 novel by Nigerian author Uzodinma…
Alex Buono is known for his work as a DP on Saturday Night Live, as well as feature films such…
How feasible is shooting on film for microbudget moviemakers in 2015? How much more does it actually cost than shooting…
“Like magic.” That’s how Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy describes the intricate, lightning-quick articulations of sign language. It’s also a fitting…