All posts tagged "Slamdance Film Festival"
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Slamdance Film Festival 2018: Park City’s Other Annual Film Fest Dances to its Own Drummer, Busts Some New Moves
If 2018 was the year Sundance struggled to answer how much of its DNA is market-driven and how much of it is... -
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018
Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee... -
Festival Beat: Freezing Weather Belied Warm Welcome at Slamdance 2017
My Park City initiation was like getting hugged and slapped at the same time. I produced Dave Made a Maze, a practical... -
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... -
The Best Advice I Ever Received: How the Team Behind Slamdance Film Cortez Found the Courage to Make Their Film
The Man with the White Hair sat a long way away from me, his ’80s-era glasses slipping down his nose. Next to... -
A Recipe for Indie Success: The Tried-and-True Methods Behind Blake Robbins’ The Scent of Rain & Lightning
How was it possible to take a New York Times best-selling novel—spanning more than 20 years and dealing with 13 unique characters... -
Festival Wrap: Small Discoveries Stand Out at the 11th Gasparilla International Film Festival
Among a massive slate of features screening incessantly over several weeks, a microbudget, no-name production or a foreign language documentary, say, have... -
ICYMI: The Best of January 2017 on Moviemaker.com
January 2017 was a historic month for political reasons we don’t need to tell you about here. In the world of film,... -
Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really want to love you. I know... -
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...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2