All posts tagged "filmmaking"
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A Fellow Conspirator: One of Werner Herzog’s "Good Soldiers" Takes Us Inside His Moviemaking Workshop
“I used to think of myself as a pilgrim, though now I am trying to be a good soldier of cinema.” That’s Werner Herzog, taking...
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Feast for the Eyes: In Search of Israeli Cuisine Dices Culinary Cinema’s Hosting Clichés
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Depending on how you count, Israel has some 150 cultures...
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A Rising Tide: San Diego Makes a Pitch to Be California’s Next Big Filmmaking Destination
Think “San Diego” and the first thing that comes to mind is glorious weather, white-sand beaches and authentic Mexican food. Turns out these features, beyond...
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#TellMM Your Stories: Make Your Voices Heard!
Searching high and low for a social network of kindred moviemaking spirits? We want to provide that resource for you, and one way we’re doing...
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The Hook-Up: The Unique, NSFW-ish Research Process Behind Amateur Night [Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Pictures]
Lisa Addario and I met in college and decided to become partners, first in writing, then in sex, then in marriage. After graduation, we both...
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How They Did It: Flooding Locations and Trained Flies in the Making of Across the Sea
Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature, Across the Sea, on the...
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How They Did It: 11 Keys to Filming in a Small Town
It’s often said that creating a boot-strapped, no-budget independent film is a lot like raising a child – it takes a village. But why stop...
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Social Proof in a Creative District: The Changing Face of Artistic Networking
“Showcase. Collaborate. Create.” The three-part slogan of Creative District reflects a perfect mirror of the production process. A newly launched online networking site for film...
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Things I’ve Learned: Cinematographer William Fraker’s Eight Rules of Filmmaking
Originally appearing in issue 56 of MovieMaker in 2004 as told to David Konow, legendary cinematographer William Fraker’s insight was gleaned from a long and fruitful...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #5 Seattle
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities, Top 5...
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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 are just a handful...
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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 Antarctic waters as...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...