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The Inspection Director Elegance Bratton on a mother's love — and rejection
November 18, 2022
The Inspection director Elegance Bratton went from homelessness to the military, and his film recounts his experience as gay Black…
May 22, 2021
Cinematographer James Laxton remembers his first collaborations with director Barry Jenkins at Florida State University’s film program almost two decades
March 26, 2019
DP James Laxton discusses how If Beale Street Could Talk reflects 1970s Harlem while also examining issues still relevant today. 
October 23, 2017
Run by the husband/wife team of Michael and Jennifer Brody, Crested Butte Film Festival 2017 touted ace programming against its scenic…
August 21, 2017
The Filmmaker Insights panel decoded the inner workings of both parties, director and editor, and how they come together for…
May 17, 2017
Editor Nat Sanders discusses what he's learned about editing thus far, how he cut a key scene from Moonlight the…
May 10, 2017
Sunscreen Film Festival has become one of the bastions in the fight to not only bring back production into Florida,…
April 17, 2017
The Quad, once Greenwich Village's premier indie theater, is making a comeback. Director of Programming C. Mason Wells tells us…
March 1, 2017
Revisit the top 10 articles on moviemaker.com for the month of February 2017, from Ice Cube to cat documentaries to…
February 26, 2017
Breaking with what in recent editions served as a preview to the Academy Awards, the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards delivered
February 22, 2017
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much.
February 17, 2017
The eight actors who received the Virtuosos Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival made a diverse and illustrious…
November 30, 2016
Watch Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins discover links between the universes of his film and Wong Kar-wai's widely influential In the…
November 22, 2016
The Film Independent Spirit Awards announced the nominations today. The awards honor indie cinema with emphasis on low-budget moviemaking.
October 31, 2016
Take a break from crafting that last-second DIY costume to revisit the best articles of October 2016 on moviemaker.com, collected…
October 18, 2016
Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs,” Moonlight is…