All posts tagged "austin"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those... -
Austin Revolution Film Festival 2017: A DIY Uprising is Brewing at Austin’s Secret Powerhouse Fest
It sounds like a moviemaker’s version of Big Rock Candy Mountain, I know: There’s a festival out there, somewhere, where being selected... -
Balancing Act: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying Deftly Dances Around America’s Political Minefields
Texas-based filmmaker Richard Linklater’s humanist touch and trademark ease affords him the ability to gracefully engage with more than a few of... -
Making the Case for Houston: Spotlight on This Texan Metropolis, With State Film Incentives on the Line
Commonly known as a business-heavy port city, Houston—surprisingly to some—is an ethnically diverse hub where a community of moviemakers, far from Hollywood,... -
Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond and a slew of unsatisfying affairs,... -
Who Does Native American Culture Belong To?: Mat Hames Poses the Question in Documentary What Was Ours
Mat Hames is a filmmaker who is more interested in raising questions than giving answers. That much is clear from the titles... -
Austin Film Festival and Writer’s Conference for Virgins: Get the Most Out of Your Experience
The four-day Writer’s Conference at the Austin Film Festival, held every October since 1993, is for many the social, networking, educational and... -
Interactive Map: Explore the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2017
Take a virtual tour of our 26 favorite filmmaking cities in North America on our interactive map of the Best Places to... -
The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017
As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes, networks, resources... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities
Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you’ll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the movies there...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2