moviemaking

  • Movie News

How Naomi McDougall Jones Is Disrupting the Indie Film Industry (Video)

Actress, writer, producer, and changemaker Naomi McDougall Jones is trying to solve the Rubik's Cube that is indie filmmaking. In…

3 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Jonas Mekas

"I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells me from his New…

6 years ago
  • Directing

How They Did It: The Director of Naples ’44 on Blending Adaptation, Documentary, and Fiction

Working on Naples ’44 was definitely one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in my brief moviemaking career. When you…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2016

The Hook-Up: The Unique, NSFW-ish Research Process Behind Amateur Night

Lisa Addario and I met in college and decided to become partners, first in writing, then in sex, then in…

8 years ago
  • Producing

Union Films vs. Non-Union Films: Know What You’re Getting Into

Making movies is an exercise in the art of making difficult compromises. One of the biggest debates when moviemaking is whether…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Flooding Locations and Trained Flies in the Making of Across the Sea

Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature,…

9 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Thelma Schoonmaker

Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker's long, presitgious career is one of Hollywood's most enduring, rivaled possibly by her longtime collaborator,…

17 years ago