Before I went to Spain to make my new film Everybody Knows—a thriller which follows the tumultuous events that ensue when Laura (Penélope Cruz) returns to…
Your colorist is the most elusive-yet integral member of your post-production team. Whether you’re aware of it or not, color’s unique essence directly influences our emotional and psychological states.…
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies…
I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget filmmaking that I put…
Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in 2000 with her debut…
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius…
Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer…
Everyone is acutely aware of the creative impact that cinematographers, editors, production designers, and even the glamour squad can bring to…
The longevity of Matt Dillon's laudable career is a byproduct of his self-reinvention. Oscillating between charismatic leading and comedic supporting…
Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples of what previous MovieMaker…
Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night…
Ben Is Back is the wonderful new feature film from writer-director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Dan in Real…
Vox Lux is a very big and puzzling movie that is now out, from director Brady Corbet. You may remember…
Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and they all have one…
The first thing you notice about Emma Stone are her eyes, green and enormous. But she squinted almost as soon…
This Fall, following a tour of the prestigious festival circuit, Orson Welles' long lost Hollywood satire The Other Side of…
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea.…
Development is the time when your indie’s budget needs to be put to the test. It’s also the time when…
On April 13, 1987 a young, charismatic, Democratic Senator from Colorado hauled a small caravan of press, aides, and family…
Structure is the first thing to look at and approach as an editor. Cutting a film chronologically before breaking it…
Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…
To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie moviemakers with films releasing…
Horror master John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween has become so indelibly etched into the cultural consciousness, so synonymous with the…
I’ve wanted to make films for a long time, but my problem was always the ability to write something. I’d…