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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2022
April 19, 2022
Our annual list of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2022 considers how much the festival will boost…
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February 26, 2021
18th and Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story explores Los Angeles' shifting 20th century identity — all through the lens of…
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April 24, 2019
If the film festival is a fit, you must submit. With MovieMaker's 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in…
June 20, 2018
For all of the inevitable comparisons to the bigger “dance” it invites, Slamdance Film Festival 2018 was only interested in…
April 16, 2018
Which of today's leading fests fit your needs and go your speed? Find out with MovieMaker's 50 Film Festivals Worth…
April 28, 2017
John Charles Meyer is a producer on feature film Dave Made a Maze, which took home the Audience Award for…
April 17, 2017
We expect a lot from festivals these days. Here are 50 that deliver: MovieMaker's 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry…
April 10, 2017
Cheryl was getting set to direct our movie Cortez. I was getting set to produce it. Only one thing stood…
March 23, 2017
The Scent of Rain & Lightning is about to world-premiere at the Atlanta Film Festival this weekend. I’ll try my…
March 10, 2017
The Gasparilla International Film Festival (March 2-9, 2017) continues to adhere to wise belief that in most cases less is…
February 1, 2017
These 10 posts from the month of January 2017 are our staff’s top picks of the past month’s indie film…
November 15, 2016
I just got back from IFP Film Week, where many of you asked me about film submission: “How can we…
November 2, 2016
We've plotted out each of our 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, starting in Canada and ending in Europe,…
November 1, 2016
When director Michael Curtis Johnson and I decided to make Hunky Dory, we knew I had to commit to becoming…
September 28, 2016
In the world of Paul Taylor's feature film, Driftwood, the characters do not speak, but move, gesture and act with…
August 12, 2016
Writer-director of MAD, Robert G. Putka, weighs in on the overwriting, self-editing, audience-testing and improvisation that comes with making a…
April 6, 2016
When we compile the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee list, we imagine you: an independent moviemaker heading into…
March 18, 2016
When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was getting into.
January 27, 2016
Director’s Cut, Adam Rifkin and Penn Jillette’s warped comedy about obsession and moviemaking, opened the 22nd Slamdance Film Festival on
July 10, 2015
On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life.
June 22, 2015
In his Slamdance-premiering feature, Huntington's Dance, director Chris Furbee captures an 18-year span of his family's fight against the neurological…
May 21, 2015
ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club, the recently minted collaboration between Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood and the Slamdance Film Festival, today…
April 8, 2015
The 50 film festivals worth the entry fee in 2015. MovieMaker Magazine's annual list of the venues where attendees get…
April 1, 2015
20 Years of Madness is a film propelled by all manner of irrational forces: heady emotions, gloriously untethered creativity, and…