All posts tagged "Festival Spotlight"
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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... -
What’s a Festival Worth? Improve Your Film Festival ROI
Plying the film festival circuit has become as much a part of the independent moviemaking process as crowdfunding, cinematography and editing. Unfortunately,... -
Festival Spotlight Friday: FirstGlance Philadelphia
MovieMaker’s second Festival Spotlight is another east coast staple, FirstGlance Film Festival Philadelphia. FirstGlance has two homes (soon to be three!) in... -
Festival Spotlight Friday: Queens World Film Festival
This week’s Festival Spotlight goes to Queens World Film Festival—a fest that has seen it all. Queens World Film Festival has bounced...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
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...