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  • LGBTQ Film Festivals

20 Fantastic LGBTQ+ Film Festivals, Presented by Film Freeway

What’s queerness without community? We queers—we noble trans and gender-nonconforming folks, we lesbian, gay, pan, and bisexual babes, we non-binary,…

3 years ago
  • Directing

Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire

In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the novelist and androgynous socialite…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Foreign Contenders: Director Ofir Raul Graizer Filmed Pastries Like People With The Cakemaker

MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for Best…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Sidewalk Film Festival 2017: Where You’ll Find the True Progressive Heart of the South in Birmingham

A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. stands across from the Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Gay Characters Don’t Need to Hook Up Just Because They’re Gay, Handsome Devil Points Out

John Butler is the director of the sports comedy Handsome Devil. In this piece he discusses why two of his…

7 years ago
  • Other

So You’re An LGBT Moviemaker: Here’s Some Basic Advice (That’s Actually Useful to All)

Navigating the landscape of the LGBT indie film world can be challenging for veteran filmmakers and newbies alike. Sometimes it’s…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals

No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a…

8 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick
  • Documentary

Crowdfunder Pick: Out in Alabama

What would you do to become a moviemaker? Bonnie Blue Edwards is the campaigner behind our Crowdfunder Pick of the…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • Festivals

The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: LGBT and Ethnic/National Film Festival Winners by MM Editors

This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • Festivals

Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For The Most Fabulous LGBT Fests

For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to…

11 years ago