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  • Movie News

Newport Beach Film Festival Sets The Absence of Eden and The Holdovers as Opening and Closing Night Films

The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced that The Absence of Eden will open the 24th annual festival and The…

8 months ago
  • Movie News

Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl Is a Love Letter to the Irish Language

The Quiet Girl director Colm Bairéad grew up speaking Irish with his father. Now, he's helping to preserve and share…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Involved ‘Absolutely No Research on Al’s Actual Life,’ Director Says

When you watch Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, don't expect it to give you the factual story of Weird Al's…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Anne-Sophie Bine’s ‘Dog Lover’ Explores Just How Far A Person Will Go For Love

Anne-Sophie Bine balances humor and darkness in her short "Dog Lover," an exploration of how far a person will go…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: How Director Eric Appel Handled Having Two Weird Als on Set

When Eric Appel was shooting his new movie Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — which is essentially the Weird Al…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

The Crown Season 5 Trailer; Meet a Cheese Master; An Indie Filmmaker’s Nightmare

The trailer for The Crown Season 5 is here and this is not a drill; Meet the Master of Cheese; The…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Harrison Ford Joins the MCU; Paul Dano’s Tracking Device; Notes From Newport Beach

Harrison Ford has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as General Ross; Paul Dano says he had a tracking device on…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Machine Gun Kelly Is Tired of Being ‘Laughed At,’ Hopes Taurus Will Make Studios Take Him Seriously As an Actor

Colson Baker — known in the music industry as Machine Gun Kelly — is tired of being "laughed at" when…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

A Little White Lie Director Says Michael Shannon’s Acting Was So Moving, ‘He Seduced Everybody’

When Michael Shannon performed a certain scene in the new literary drama A Little White Lie, director Michael Maren says…

2 years ago
  • First Person

Keeping Company and Keeping Hope Alive as Independent Filmmakers

Josh Wallace (director, co-writer) and Devin Das (co-writer, producer, actor) are the filmmakers behind Keeping Company, a horror-comedy that follows…

3 years ago
  • Spring 2019

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…

5 years ago
  • Summer 2017

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…

7 years ago
  • Editing

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…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

8 years ago
  • Directing

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…

9 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

9 years ago
  • Festivals
  • Spring 2014

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…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • Articles - Documentary
  • Documentary
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  • How They Did It

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…

11 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

11 years ago