All posts tagged "film festival"
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Fest Beat: Indie Memphis Showcases Auteur-Driven Programming, Live Music, and Rich Banana Pudding
When you’re finishing a movie, the rest of the world fades into white noise. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking about where... -
Montana Int’l Film Festival 2018: Eclectic Curation and After-Hours Karaoke Make Year One as Natural as Nature Itself
I’ve heard that Montana is a quest of sorts: beautiful in scope, yet full of potential agonies for the uninitiated. People are... -
Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2018, Presented by MovieMaker
Screenwriters are the first to step forward when called upon to deliver their often thankless, solitary labor, and they still tend to be... -
FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes of a mountain-perched farmhouse and one... -
Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema
From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure. Indeed, the... -
New York Festivals 2017: There’s A Prize For Everyone and Everything At This Awards Gala in Vegas
The New York Festivals Awards take place during the annual National Broadcasting Convention (NAB) Show, held each spring in Las Vegas. Helmed... -
SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival 2017: Giving Back and Paying It Forward in New England
On a pleasant April evening in Warwick, Rhode Island, Alec Asten attended the opening night of SENE (Southeast New England) Film, Music... -
AFI Fest 2017 Wrap: Team MovieMaker’s Favorites From Another Characteristically Strong Showing
Due to its placement in late Fall and the strength of its programming team, AFI Fest has always felt like a who’s-who... -
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017: Experimental Yet Accessible Work Populates This Quirky SoCal Fest
Recognizing a void in Southern California for experimental and truly independent cinema, Ryan Betschart and Rachel Nakawatase decided to found an independent... -
Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival 2017: No Festival is an Island, Though This One Stands Apart
Seven years ago, I attended Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival with my first feature documentary, Beijing Taxi, a portrait of three Chinese...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8