Shooting for Salvation: The Director of Free in Deed Proves the Meaning of "Errors Done Right" in This Commentary
I spent 10 years planning, writing, researching and visualizing Free in Deed. But the final film that I wrote, directed, edited and framed still fell...
Dark Night of the American Soul: Tim Sutton’s Latest Feature is Beautiful, Tense and Provocative
Fiction will always lose the battle against reality when it comes to mankind’s most inhumane and baffling actions. Nothing one can write is more perverse...
The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017
As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes, networks, resources and people to...
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities
Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you’ll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the movies there were only a...
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in three parts: the...
Under the Influence: Tim Sutton on Memphis and Ezra Jack Keats
A new series on MovieMaker.com, Under the Influence charts the often-mysterious ways that art begets art, calling upon moviemakers to write about one creative work...
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #9. Memphis
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities, Top...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...