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  • Producing

Watch the Trailer for Inside Felix & Paul Studios, the New Groundbreaking Series

Felix & Paul Studios invites viewers to go on an eye-opening journey with an inside look at the pioneering studio…

5 months ago
  • Movie News

11 Things to Buy to Make Your Movies Better

Moviemaking is joyful — and hard. Things go wrong at every level, no matter who you are. But from getting…

1 year ago
  • Crossing the Line

The Man in Bergman: A New German Cinema Pioneer’s Search for the Heart and Soul of Ingmar Bergman’s Legacy

In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all. The New German Wave…

5 years ago
  • Other

Best of a Backlot: A Veteran AD Tests Top Tech From Cine Gear Expo 2018 So You Don’t Have To

With its aisles upon aisles of eye candy for the big kids into cameras, grips and lighting. Cine Gear Expo…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2018

The Best Cameras for Every Budget: Ace One of the Biggest Decisions in Making your Feature

Everybody wants a full palette of colors to paint with, though chances are you might not be able to afford…

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
  • Interviews

The Cat Documentary Taking NYC By Storm: Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann on Their Gorgeous Film KEDi

“People who don’t love animals don’t love people either.” So says a fishmonger in Istanbul in an early scene of…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

Eye Piece: How I Trained Astronauts to Shoot the Stunning 4K Footage in A Beautiful Planet from Space

A Beautiful Planet is the seventh IMAX film shot in space by astronauts, and continues a three-decade long association with…

8 years ago
  • Whats in Your Kit

What’s in Your Kit?, Sundance Edition: Cinematographer John Behrens (Resilience)

For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t…

8 years ago
  • Whats in Your Kit

What’s in Your Kit?, Sundance Edition: Cinematographer Nick Higgins (O.J.: Made in America)

For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t…

8 years ago
  • How They Did It

Jump Outs: On Set with DailyMotion’s New Series

Jump Outs is an urban gameshow, produced and distributed by DailyMotion as a part of their new digital programming. Production…

10 years ago
  • blog-test
  • Fall 2013

Best Of: 25 Indie-Friendly Businesses, 2013

Every year in our Fall issue, MovieMaker releases a list of 25 companies we've deemed especially 'indie-friendly.' Take a look…

10 years ago
  • Producing

The Happy Hustler: A Lesson in Creative Budgeting

If the rules don’t make sense, a hustler (and every independent moviemaker must be a hustler) knows to disregard the…

11 years ago