All posts tagged "New Orleans Film Festival"
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2019
Let’s talk about the coolest film festivals in the world. And if you think it’s easy being cool, think again. According to author Raymond Benson,...
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2019
It’s accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is the result of dogged commitment to a singular vision. And it should be. Yet, once a...
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018
Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee is only the...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2017
Keith Richards said it best: “If you gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.” The 25 rare birds on our 2017 Coolest Film Festivals...
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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,...
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Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really want to love you. I know that’s forward, but...
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2016: Plot Your Festival Course on This Interactive Map
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2016: now plotted out on this interactive map! So you’ve read about (and submitted your film to)...
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2016
When we compile the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee list every year, we start by imagining you: an independent moviemaker, probably English-speaking, heading...
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Festival Wrap: Oysters, Murals and Excellent Southern Cinema at the 26th New Orleans Film Festival
“If you go visit the French Quarter, don’t go down any alleys.” From the moment that I arrived at Louis Armstrong airport for the New...
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2015
Was it worth it? Indie film, by definition, resides on the margins. It’s a medium of miracles, of squeezing so much from so little, of...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...