All posts tagged "Kyle Patrick Alvarez"
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Park City 2015: 13 Picks from Sundance and Slamdance
After three exalted decades, Sundance maintains its spot on the international film festival circuit as the premiere U.S. event of the year, bringing some of...
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Gaining Festival Momentum: How to Find Success Without Sundance, by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
If you don’t premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so. If you’re an American independent...
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Sundance Dispatch, II: MovieMaker Sits Down with Jonathan Groff, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, and Two Egyptian Revolutionaries (Video)
This is the second installment in MovieMaker’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. This time we sit down with director Kyle...
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Killing Your Darlings: Four Moviemakers Talk About Editing Their Own Films
Kyle Patrick Alvarez Director/Editor: Easier with Practice I never intended to edit my own films. My “day job” is editing PSAs and corporate videos, so when...
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Sundance 2013: Six Unmissable Films Premiering in Park City
We preview six narrative features to play at Sundance 2013. C.O.G. First Adaptation of David Sedaris’ Work Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez There might not be...
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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...