All posts tagged "coolest film festivals"
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Dear Film Festivals: 10 Things I’d Like You to Stop Doing, Love an Indie Filmmaker
How can a film festival position itself better to attract great submissions and talent? One filmmaker weighs in. For the last 12 years, I have...
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Rip City Rendezvous: Portland Film Festival Writes its Own Narrative
When Portland Film Festival director Josh Leake called me to say he wanted my first independent feature to debut as the opening night premiere, it...
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The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: LGBT and Ethnic/National Film Festival Winners
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading up to the...
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Festival Spotlight Friday: A Conversation with Cucalorus’ Executive Director Dan Brawley
While AFI Fest glitters on in Hollywood as we speak, MovieMaker‘s spotlighting a festival with a totally opposite – but no less fabulous – sensibility:...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote In Our Final Category, Experimental/Underground Fests!
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For Your Favorite Ethnic/National Fest
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For The Most Fabulous LGBT Fests
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For The Fiercest Female Women’s Fests
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For The Environmental/Social Cause Fests Most Likely To Save The World
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy Fests
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to nominate and vote for the...
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The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...