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Vanessa Kirby Adam Leon Italian Studies
February 1, 2022
Wondering why Adam Leon's film Italian Studies is called Italian Studies? So is star Vanessa Kirby. Director Adam Leon explains…
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December 3, 2021
"Tennis is having a little bit of a moment," says Rex Miller, co-director of CNN Films and HBO Max's new…
June 14, 2019
Natalia Leite's primer for making your mark—and a living—as an indie moviemaker continues with a map to finding feature funding.
April 23, 2019
The bold doc moviemakers behind The Brink, Hail Satan? and Leaving Neverland share their secrets to courting, and recording, controversy.
April 22, 2019
The key to directing Marcello Fonte's Cannes award-winning lead performance in Dogman was shooting in sequence, says writer-director Matteo Garrone.
February 14, 2018
It isn’t a coincidence that the 5th YoFiFest ran parallel to the city of Yonkers' recent burst of artistic and…
December 28, 2017
With a versatile arsenal of vintage lenses, In the Fade director Fatih Akin managed to create a Super 16mm aesthetic…
November 7, 2017
It's time now more than ever to turn "diversity" from buzzword to reality. Here, moviemaker Yvonne Huff Lee maps out…
October 30, 2017
The Square director Ruben Östlund tells us about how he makes even the most deranged of situations ring true, his…
October 25, 2017
"The first day of shooting turned out to be one of my worst days on set ever," says The Square…
October 3, 2017
Moviemaker Sean Baker edits his own (brilliant) films—like the 2017 Cannes hit The Florida Project. Here, he argues that each…
September 23, 2016
Co-directors of The Lovers and the Despot, Ross Adam and Robert Cannan, discuss humanizing Kim Jong-il in their doc about…
August 25, 2016
In the spirit of Werner Herzog’s exploratory futurism, here are three things his doc Lo and Behold can teach moviemakers…
July 11, 2013
Tobias Lindholm is having a very good year, and his hot streak continues with tomorrow’s national release of The Hunt.
June 19, 2013
Our inaugural choice for Editor’s Weekend Pick is Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking. MovieMaker’s Weekend Pick is a window on our…
February 3, 2007
Mark Cuban is the maverick owner of 2929 Entertainment, the Dallas Mavericks, along with Landmark Theaters, HDNet Films and chunks…