All posts tagged "filmmaking"
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Movie News
I Made Breaking Fast Because No One Else Had Ever Told My Story
January 27, 2021Mike Mosallam is the writer and director of Breaking Fast, a romantic comedy that follows Mo,...
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Movie News
Think Like a Producer — Advice From The Climb Creators Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin
January 27, 2021Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin wore many caps on their cycling-centric comedy The Climb. They co-wrote...
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Movie News
Travon Free Invokes Groundhog Day to Denounce Racist Policing in Two Distant Strangers
January 17, 2021Travon Free has impeccable comedy credentials — the two-time Emmy winner and standup comedian scored his...
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Best Of
Regina King Breaks Through (Again) With One Night in Miami, Her Directorial Debut
January 15, 2021When Regina King was growing up in Los Angeles, her family ate lots of vegetables. Friends...
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Interviews
Jim Cummings on How to ‘Become Yorgos Lanthimos From Your Garage’
October 28, 2020Jim Cummings went from making a movie out of college that was “relatively boring” to writing...
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Articles - Moviemaking
12 Silence of the Lambs Details You Probably Missed
October 8, 2020Silence of the Lambs is having a moment — thanks to its upcoming 30th anniversary, Hannibal on Netflix,...
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Interviews
Yes, God, Yes: Girl Meets Vagina in Karen Maine’s Directorial Debut
July 29, 2020Growing up in Iowa, Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine remembers “feeling really guilty as a...
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Interviews
Barry Jenkins and Dave Franco Talk The Rental: ‘Dave Franco Is F—ing With People’
July 24, 2020Barry Jenkins was so unnerved by The Rental — the directorial debut from Dave Franco, about...
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Movie News
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Directors Bill and Turner Ross Brought a Documentary Approach to a Fictional Set-Up
July 24, 2020Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, the latest film from moviemaker siblings Bill and Turner Ross, has a...
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Movie News
When Scarface Was In Trouble: Oliver Stone Looks Back in An Exclusive Excerpt From Chasing the Light
July 21, 2020Before Scarface launched a boatload of T-shirts, posters, memes, and dubious imitations of Al Pacino’s cocainized...
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Movie News
Let’s Consider 15 Seconds From The Godfather and Why They’re So Effective (Video)
July 20, 2020Thomas Flight says his favorite 15 seconds of The Godfather consist of Michael Corleone lighting a...
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Other
A Fellow Conspirator: One of Werner Herzog’s "Good Soldiers" Takes Us Inside His Moviemaking Workshop
May 26, 2017“I used to think of myself as a pilgrim, though now I am trying to be...
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Feast for the Eyes
Feast for the Eyes: In Search of Israeli Cuisine Dices Culinary Cinema’s Hosting Clichés
March 20, 2017In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Depending...
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Other
A Rising Tide: San Diego Makes a Pitch to Be California’s Next Big Filmmaking Destination
March 10, 2017Think “San Diego” and the first thing that comes to mind is glorious weather, white-sand beaches...
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Movie News
#TellMM Your Stories: Make Your Voices Heard!
August 1, 2016Searching high and low for a social network of kindred moviemaking spirits? We want to provide...
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Screenwriting
The Hook-Up: The Unique, NSFW-ish Research Process Behind Amateur Night
August 1, 2016Lisa Addario and I met in college and decided to become partners, first in writing, then...
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Directing
How They Did It: Flooding Locations and Trained Flies in the Making of Across the Sea
April 15, 2015Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: 11 Keys to Filming in a Small Town
April 14, 2014It’s often said that creating a boot-strapped, no-budget independent film is a lot like raising a...
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Interviews
Social Proof in a Creative District: The Changing Face of Artistic Networking
April 9, 2014“Showcase. Collaborate. Create.” The three-part slogan of Creative District reflects a perfect mirror of the production...
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned: Cinematographer William Fraker’s Eight Rules of Filmmaking
January 15, 2014Originally appearing in issue 56 of MovieMaker in 2004 as told to David Konow, legendary cinematographer William...
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Articles
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #5 Seattle
January 13, 2014It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting...
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Articles
Jia Zhangke Exclusive: The renowned director talks about A Touch of Sin
October 4, 2013At this year’s New York Film Festival, internationally renowned filmmaker Jia Zhangke showed his new film,...
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DIY
Working with a Music Supervisor: We Asked Liz Gallacher of Velvet Ears for Advice
September 16, 2013While I am all for learning the art of filmmaking on the job, there are instances...
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DIY
Five Ways to Navigate the Shoulds & Supposed-Tos of Moviemaking
April 19, 2013Have you read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art? If you have, spread the word. If you haven’t yet,...
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