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  • Movie News

Can Fulldome Be the Next IMAX? We Go Inside the Large-Scale Format

Many of us are a long way from feeling comfortable in a movie theater. But when we do go back,…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates

Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s…

5 years ago
  • Producing

Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film

Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling it to distributors or…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Dream-Come-True Scenario: Scenarios USA Pairs Students with Big-Name Professional Talent

Scenarios USA, a national nonprofit with an educational mandate, teams its annual writing contest winner with a working filmmaker to…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History

Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Letting Sparks Fly: Sundance’s Three-Year-Old Ignite Program Gives Young Moviemakers Space to Grow

As Sundance settles comfortably into its fourth decade, the festival hopes to draw—and shape—new filmmakers and audiences, particularly as methods…

7 years ago
  • Spring 2017

Casting From Your Couch? Mobile Casting App UpCast Aims to Cut Your Time Spent Finding Actors

As mobile technology shakes up everything from dating to banking, Drew Doyon, founder and CEO of UpCast, wants to do…

7 years ago
  • Producing
  • Winter 2017

Can an Algorithm Really Produce a Useful Movie Budget? Film Budgeteers More or Less Hits the Target

A new online app that promises to create a budget for your independent film in a few easy steps based…

7 years ago
  • Fall 2016

Freedom (of Expression) via Film: Voices of the Children Teaches Moviemaking to Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan

“Guppies swimming in a tank, with the entire world peering in.” That’s how Aaron Wagner describes the Syrian refugees living…

8 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Movie News

Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters

Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is…

10 years ago
  • Articles - Callboard

Callboard: Single In the City? Try Click at a Flick

Speed-dating and the Internet may be the “blind dates” of the new millennium, but now unattached urbanites in New York,…

20 years ago