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Directing on a Dime: The Great Film School Question

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

We Set Out to Make Drought — We Got a Hurricane

Megan Petersen and Hannah Black are the creators-directors-producers of Drought, which was just released on Prime Video. Black wrote the script,…

3 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Like Brothers: Mark and Jay Duplass Explore Their Fraternal Filmmaking Bond in New Memoir

“How do you make it in this brutal fucking business?” This is the question that indie moviemaking mainstays Mark and…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Duck Test: How Miguel Arteta and Alia Shawkat Made Their Taut Relationship Drama Duck Butter in 24 Hours

For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in supporting roles that enrich…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Outside In: Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass on Rehearsals, Sex Scenes, What They Learned Working in TV, and More

When I met with Lynn Shelton after the premiere of Outside In at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, I facetiously…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

Double Debut: DP-Turned-Director Alex Lehmann Impresses With Blue Jay and Asperger’s Are Us

Alex Lehmann’s career path has taken him from camera operator to director, and he is playing both roles simultaneously. And, remarkably,…

7 years ago
  • Acting
  • Inside MM - Acting
  • MM Guide 2017

How to Get More From Actors: Rainbow Time’s Linas Phillips Asked Jay Duplass, Melanie Lynskey and More

Don’t actors know that you have a million other things to do on your movie? They’re not the center of…

7 years ago
  • Spring 2016

We Want You (to Help Make Movies): Global Media Makers Poses Filmmakers as Agents of Cultural Exchange

Indie moviemakers often take on other roles—entrepreneur, advocate, teacher. Add cultural ambassador and diplomat to that list for some of…

8 years ago
  • Summer 2015

Independence Transcendent: With the iPhone-Shot Tangerine, Sean Baker Makes it Look Easy

If the phrase “independent film” has in recent years felt problematic to you, with one-time rebels “going studio” and A-listers…

9 years ago
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  • MM Guide 2014

Selling Out with Soul: Career Advice from Mark Duplass

Festival hits The One I Love and Creep, FX’s The League, box-office hit Tammy, a new HBO show, Togetherness—that’s just…

10 years ago
  • Interviews

Directing on a Dime: The (Budgetary) Highs and Lows of the Duplass Brothers

Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is…

12 years ago
  • Acting

Katie Aselton’s Pure Indie Power

By way of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for a girl who starts off a conversation with,…

14 years ago
  • Directing

Duplass vs. Goliath: The Duplass Brothers Answer the Question – Should You Make a Big Movie or Little Movie?

"Holy shitballs.” That’s the general feeling we had when we were greenlit for our first studio movie, Cyrus. Understand that…

14 years ago