All posts tagged "Georgia"
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Swing States: With the Ups and Downs of Tax Incentives Across America, Lives and Movies Hang in the Balance
There’s still a spirited debate going on in the U.S. about film tax incentives. Moviemakers and their advocates point to jobs tourism revenue. Tax hawks...
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Foreign Contenders: Georgia’s House of Others Invokes Tarkovsky to Explore Post-War Abkhazia
Over the next two months, MovieMaker’s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for...
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The Birth of a Nation’s Biggest Lesson for First-Time Directors? Surround Yourself with Experienced Crew
Following its premiere at Sundance in January, Nate Parker’s directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, quickly became the biggest thing to hit Park City...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is a man who has lived many lives throughout his long, consistently intriguing career. The star of A Simple Plan, Monster’s Ball,...
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How To Shoot a Film in Less Than 25 Days: Producing Girlfriend
My name’s Shaun O’Banion. You’re probably asking yourself, “Shaun who?” That’s OK. I’m a producer only on my second feature film. My first, Dakota Skye,...
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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...
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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...