All posts tagged "Larry Fessenden"
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How They Did It: First-Time Director Ana Asensio Split Most Beautiful Island Into Two Stylistically Distinct Halves
Making Most Beautiful Island was my first time writing a script and directing a film. Up to this point in my career, I had focused...
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The Family That Makes Movies Together Stays Together: Working With Your Kids? It’s Possible, Say These Clans
When veteran moviemaker Larry Fessenden was shooting his 2001 feature Wendigo in upstate New York, his wife, director Beck Underwood, brought their newly born son,...
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Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was...
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Best of 2014: 12 Articles to Sum Up the Year in MovieMaker
To ring in the new year here at MovieMaker, we’re doing a little bit of a 2014 in Review thing, which means we’ll be revisiting...
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Horror Stories: Examining the Business of Genre Filmmaking
A decade ago, the primary focus of independent horror moviemakers was making a good horror movie, knowing that if they did their job well, they...
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My New Film: American Jesus Is Not A Horror Movie
Larry Fessenden, producer of the new documentary American Jesus, explains why Glass Eye Pix became involved in Aram Garriga’s exploration of the sometimes bizarre relationship between...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...