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  • Producing

How They Did It: Juggling Three Hats to Make the 12-Day, Five-City Feature Toss It

How did Michele Remsen write, direct, produce, and act in her first feature film Toss It? Not a big enough question. How…

6 years ago
  • Directing

How They Did It: 24 Set-Ups + 12 Hours A Day x Three Days = A 22-Minute Short, “Kill the Light”

Shooting a short takes longer than you'd think. That is, unless, you utilize the wonderful world of preproduction to its…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2018

Alternative Gear Sources: Look Beyond the Rental House For Budget-Conscious Gear Shopping 

The question “how can I afford this gear?” has led many a moviemaker to countless hours of research and rummaging.…

6 years ago
  • Directing

How They Did It: Feature Film Stuck is a Musical Set Entirely in an NYC Subway Train

Stuck is an original musical film about a New York City subway train that stops in a tunnel beneath the…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Lenses? For the Director of Midnighters, These Were Worth the Effort

It's five in the morning and I'm starting to shiver. The thermometer hovers at 10 degrees but it feels like…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Vocal Expression: Zoe Lister-Jones on Making Her Spirited Feature Debut, Band Aid, With an All-Female Crew

The feature film Band Aid represents not only Zoe Lister-Jones’ directorial debut, but also her voice—in more ways than one.…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle

Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set in 1978 Boston, so…

7 years ago
  • Documentary

Mixed Media: How Documentary God Knows Where I Am Used 35mm, 16mm, Super-16 and Digital For Its Haunting Story

When Linda Bishop's body was found in an empty farmhouse in New Hampshire, her death seemed pointless and puzzling. Then…

7 years ago
  • Directing

From Storyboard to Screen: Director Soham Mehta Breaks Down the Shot Design of Run the Tide

Today, just days before the release of my first feature film, Run the Tide, flipping through my initial lookbook feels…

7 years ago
  • Fall 2016

Eye Piece: Moonlight DP James Laxton Illuminates Miami’s Bold, Blue, Beautiful Darkness

Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs,” Moonlight is…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2016

The Birth of a Nation’s Biggest Lesson for First-Time Directors? Surround Yourself with Experienced Crew

Following its premiere at Sundance in January, Nate Parker’s directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, quickly became the biggest…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Capturing The Free World: A Quick Chat With Cinematographer Bérénice “Bear” Eveno

Cinematographer Bérénice Eveno, a.k.a. Bear, uses her camera to represent the complex themes of The Free World—freedom, confinement, isolation and…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Checking Your Privilege: White Girl Director Elizabeth Wood Navigates Sex, Drugs and Racial Stereotypes

The title of Elizabeth Wood’s audacious narrative feature debut, White Girl, alludes to Leah, a college student on a New…

8 years ago
  • Summer 2016

Eye Piece: How Dystopian Romance Equals Was Lit Entirely by Luminescent LEDs

As a cinematographer, I have made several movies with director Drake Doremus, including Like Crazy and Breathe In. Those films…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Shooting the Green Room: Full Interview with DP Sean Porter

We've covered Green Room's director and cast in previous articles this week. Today we round out our exploration of Jeremy…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews
  • Producing

Family on the Brink of Disaster: Theo Rossi and Mark Kemble Bring Audiences Some Bad Hurt

"Bad Hurt is my family over 20 years condensed into Christmas week," says Mark Kemble, co-writer and director of the feature…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

“This Camera Thinks Exactly Like Me:” Cinematographer Yves Bélanger at the Peak of His Career

Yves Bélanger belongs to a coterie of French-Canadian filmmakers who’ve caught Hollywood’s attention in recent years. Joined by directors Jean-Marc…

8 years ago
  • Under the Influence

Under the Influence: Hank Bedford on Dixieland and William Eggleston

Under the Influence charts the often-mysterious ways that art begets art, calling upon moviemakers to write about one creative work…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

A Conversation with Convention: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment Demands a Better Movie-Watcher

"Strategically subversive:" That’s probably the term that gets closest to labeling Rick Alverson’s filmmaking. He sometimes refers to film as…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Facing the Music: The Visual Melody of Josh Mond’s James White

"I look at the movie like it's an album," said Josh Mond, whose directorial debut, James White, plays like a musical…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Fall 2015

Restless Heart, Roving Camera: Cary Fukunaga Marries Electric Passion and Technique in Beasts of No Nation

Two years ago, only cinephiles knew who Cary Joji Fukunaga was. He was the Oakland-born writer-director of gritty, modestly budgeted…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography

Practical Shooting Lessons for All Occasions: Tips from Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2

Fresh off wrapping Season 40 of Saturday Night Live, for which he is the film unit's DP, Alex Buono launched…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Producing
  • Summer 2015

Film vs. Digital: Is the Expense of Shooting on Film a Misconception?

You know the reasons you want to shoot your next film on film. Film looks better. Film gets crews and…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Summer 2015

Sight, Sound and Fury: The Tribe Gives New Meaning to “Must-See”

“Like magic.” That’s how Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy describes the intricate, lightning-quick articulations of sign language. It’s also a fitting…

9 years ago