All posts tagged "newport beach film festival"
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Newport Beach Film Festival 2019: SoCal’s Center for Cinema Celebration Turns the Big 2-0 This Year
If the Newport Beach Film Festival could be described in a phrase, “Think globally, act locally” might be it. Showcasing films from more than 50...
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Thin Line Fest 2017: A Festival Where "Run, Don’t Walk" Takes on a Literal Dimension
When I learned my documentary What Happened in Vegas, about police corruption in Las Vegas, had gotten accepted to the Newport Beach Film Festival, I...
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Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment
Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn’t as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon’s—she was the first African-American to receive a nod for the...
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Festival Wrap: Big-Wave Surfing and an Ocean of International Selections Glisten at Newport Beach Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival’s 18th annual run has come to a close, marking another year that the SoCal luxury spot has fostered the growth of Orange County’s regional...
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First We Take Sedona: A Festival Run is All About Leverage, Says the Director of Stevie D
My wife and I had just settled into a quiet evening at a friend’s house when I saw a call coming in from Sedona on...
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Starring Ol’ Blue: Casting a 43-Year Old Ford Pickup Truck in Reparation
This is a story about how I nearly fired one of the lead actors in our film the day before principal photography began. Oh, and…...
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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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Best Of: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2014
Feast your eyes on MovieMaker‘s complete list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2014. Despite original plan to publish the list...
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How They Did It: Documentary, Los Aldeanos
Los Aldeanos is an underground rap duo based in Havana whose lyrics challenge the status quo of Cuba’s dictatorship. Filmmaker Jesse Acevedo went to Cuba...
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Newport Beach Film Festival: Bringing the Best in Film to Orange County
I first got involved with the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) back in 2009 with my film Spooner. Even then the festival was large, but...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...