Several new cast members have been set to star alongside Nnamdi Asomugha in his directorial debut The Knife. Melissa Leo…
Megan Petersen and Hannah Black are the creators-directors-producers of Drought, which was just released on Prime Video. Black wrote the script,…
Indie film icon Mark Duplass told a SXSW audience in 2015, "the cavalry isn't coming" — explaining that it's dangerous…
“How do you make it in this brutal fucking business?” This is the question that indie moviemaking mainstays Mark and…
For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in supporting roles that enrich…
When I met with Lynn Shelton after the premiere of Outside In at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, I facetiously…
For our third edition of MovieMaker's Guide to Making Horror Movies, we asked indie multi-hyphenates Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass,…
MovieMaker Magazine’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies is the third in our annual series. This year, we invited Creep 2 collaborators…
Alex Lehmann’s career path has taken him from camera operator to director, and he is playing both roles simultaneously. And, remarkably,…
Don’t actors know that you have a million other things to do on your movie? They’re not the center of…
Improvisation in the service of making movies can allow for an organic and naturalistic quality of performance that is otherwise…
If the phrase “independent film” has in recent years felt problematic to you, with one-time rebels “going studio” and A-listers…
Talking about film genre is an exercise in stilted speech. Ever had one of those conversations, trying to describe a…
To ring in the new year here at MovieMaker, we're doing a little bit of a 2014 in Review thing,…
Festival hits The One I Love and Creep, FX’s The League, box-office hit Tammy, a new HBO show, Togetherness—that’s just…
Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is…
By way of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for a girl who starts off a conversation with,…
"Holy shitballs.” That’s the general feeling we had when we were greenlit for our first studio movie, Cyrus. Understand that…