Independent film

  • Movie News

How Naomi McDougall Jones Is Disrupting the Indie Film Industry (Video)

Actress, writer, producer, and changemaker Naomi McDougall Jones is trying to solve the Rubik's Cube that is indie filmmaking. In…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How The Riot Act Director Devon Parks Recreate Life in Another Century

Nearly 120 years ago, the zestful border town of Van Buren, Arkansas found its streets lined with eager curbside merchants,…

5 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Creative Culture 2018: Moviemakers of the Future

The Jacob Burns Film Center followed its inaugural year of Creative Culture with a group of talented filmmakers poised for…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Jonas Mekas

"I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells me from his New…

6 years ago
  • Producing

How They Did It: Juggling Three Hats to Make the 12-Day, Five-City Feature Toss It

How did Michele Remsen write, direct, produce, and act in her first feature film Toss It? Not a big enough question. How…

6 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Erik Nelson’s Doc A Gray State Required a Descent into the Mind of Madness

David Crowley was a 25-year-old filmmaker in Apple Valley, Minnesota, when he began filming a project he called Gray State—creating…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Creative Convergence: Finding Your Movement at the Tacoma Film Festival 2016

I am of the belief that great filmmaking can only occur when there is a sense of community intertwined with…

7 years ago
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  • Fall 2013

Best Of: 25 Indie-Friendly Businesses, 2013

Every year in our Fall issue, MovieMaker releases a list of 25 companies we've deemed especially 'indie-friendly.' Take a look…

10 years ago