All posts tagged "Screamfest"
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MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019, Presented by HorrorHound
It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. As proof continues to come in that writer-directors working in horror can...
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Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193 million worldwide and launched a...
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Reflections on 16 Years of Horror Festing: Screamfest’s Founder and Director Shares Veteran Insights
Congratulations! Your film has been accepted into a film festival. Now what? For starters, absolutely rally, promote, attend the festival and support your fellow filmmakers’...
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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...