All posts tagged "Oxford Film Festival"
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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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Montana Int’l Film Festival 2018: Eclectic Curation and After-Hours Karaoke Make Year One as Natural as Nature Itself
I’ve heard that Montana is a quest of sorts: beautiful in scope, yet full of potential agonies for the uninitiated. People are drawn here despite...
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Oxford Film Festival 2018: Black-Lit Bowling, Affable Artist-to-Artist Networking, and More at This Southern Spot
The 2018 Oxford Film Festival (February 7-11, 2018) was a beguiling mix of southern history and hospitality, strong films, and positive connections that moviemakers forged...
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Oxford Film Festival 2017: This Mississippi Gem Instantly Wins Over All Newcomers
With my debut feature, Gold Star, accepted to the Oxford Film Festival, my experience began before my plane wheels even touched the ground. I’ve spent...
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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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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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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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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...