All posts tagged "New Orleans"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Small Cities and Towns
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those long, languid afternoons...
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Swing States: With the Ups and Downs of Tax Incentives Across America, Lives and Movies Hang in the Balance
There’s still a spirited debate going on in the U.S. about film tax incentives. Moviemakers and their advocates point to jobs tourism revenue. Tax hawks...
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Interactive Map: Explore the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2017
Take a virtual tour of our 26 favorite filmmaking cities in North America on our interactive map of the Best Places to Live and Work...
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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...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Small Cities and Towns
We released 2016’s Best Big Cities to Live and Work as a Moviemaker yesterday; today we announce our 10 top Small Cities and Towns, combined...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Small 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...
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Festival Spotlight Friday: Victoria TX Independent Film Festival
“Victoria is a small town in south Texas that isn’t known for the arts, but that’s not to say that is the truth of what...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Top Small Cities: #1. New Orleans, LA
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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Festival Spotlight Friday: Opening Night of New Orleans Film Festival 2013
When Jolene Pinder, executive director of the New Orleans Film Festival, told a tear-stained, emotionally exhausted Opening Night audience that after the grueling experience of...
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The Power of "Warts and All" Moviemaking: Director Taylor Hackford Talks Ray
Early Oscar buzz may be the Holy Grail for most directors, but Taylor Hackford isn’t your average Hollywood helmer. Working in and out of the...
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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...