Three’s Company: A Busy Weekend Of L.A. Film Fests Highlights The City’s Multiculturalism and Fierce Independence
Repertoire theaters, star-studded evenings, plenty of multiplexes and art houses theaters, as well as a never-ending stream of festivals make Los Angeles a perpetually engaging...
How They Did It: Eliza Sherman’s Revenge Made, Then Ripped Off a Prosthetic Arm Without Paying an Arm and a Leg
No-budget indie moviemaking is hard enough as it is, but when you decide to throw in visual effects, it can really test the limits of...
How They Did It: The Director of One Less God Used "Re-Voicing" Tricks to Fine-Tune Foreign-Language Performances
The attacks of November 2008 in Mumbai brought India and much of the world to a standstill. Although India has endured repeated terrorist attacks, this...
What’s Indie Moviemaking in Two Words? "Pragmatism" and "Bricolage," Says the Director of Pop-Up
What does “independent” really mean? If your film stars Jennifer Aniston, and had a $30 million budget, does it really qualify as indie? Sundance seems...
Festival Preview: Dances With Films 2015 Sweeps Up a Storm in Hollywood
After thriving in the temperamental city of Los Angeles for nearly two decades, the fiercely independent film festival Dances With Films opens May 28 for its...
Festivals: The Founding and Future of Dances With Films
It started on a dark and stormy night…no wait… that’s another story. Dances With Films started with festival founders, Michael Trent and Leslee Scallon (that’s...
Best Of: The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013
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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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
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How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...