All posts tagged "Slamdance Film Festival"
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Annual Lists
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2019
April 24, 2019Film festivals require a strategy. It’s accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is...
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Festivals
Slamdance Film Festival 2018: Park City’s Other Annual Film Fest Dances to its Own Drummer, Busts Some New Moves
June 20, 2018If 2018 was the year Sundance struggled to answer how much of its DNA is market-driven...
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Annual Lists
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018
April 16, 2018Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50...
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Festivals
Festival Beat: Freezing Weather Belied Warm Welcome at Slamdance 2017
April 28, 2017My Park City initiation was like getting hugged and slapped at the same time. I produced...
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Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
April 17, 2017Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you...
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Directing
The Best Advice I Ever Received: How the Team Behind Slamdance Film Cortez Found the Courage to Make Their Film
April 10, 2017The Man with the White Hair sat a long way away from me, his ’80s-era glasses...
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Directing
A Recipe for Indie Success: The Tried-and-True Methods Behind Blake Robbins’ The Scent of Rain & Lightning
March 23, 2017How was it possible to take a New York Times best-selling novel—spanning more than 20 years...
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Festivals
Festival Wrap: Small Discoveries Stand Out at the 11th Gasparilla International Film Festival
March 10, 2017Among a massive slate of features screening incessantly over several weeks, a microbudget, no-name production or...
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Movie News
ICYMI: The Best of January 2017 on Moviemaker.com
February 1, 2017January 2017 was a historic month for political reasons we don’t need to tell you about...
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Festivals
Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
November 15, 2016Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really...
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Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2016: Plot Your Festival Course on This Interactive Map
November 2, 201650 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2016: now plotted out on this interactive map!...
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Acting
Quick Change Artist: Costume is the Key to Accessing and Discarding Character, Says the Star of Hunky Dory
November 1, 2016“Clothes make the man.” — Mark Twain When director Michael Curtis Johnson and I decided to...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: The Radical Sound Design of Driftwood, Shot Without a Sound Crew
September 28, 2016Close your eyes and concentrate on the sounds around you: the humming of the refrigerator, footsteps...
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Directing
The Weird, Grey Area: How to Find Tonal Balance in a Dramedy, by the Writer-Director of MAD
August 12, 2016“And that’s really the thing, can you make people emotional, make people feel something, maybe even...
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Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2016
April 6, 2016When we compile the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee list every year, we start...
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Documentary
Fur Example: Director Dominic Rodriguez Confronts His Own Furry Fandom in Fursonas
March 18, 2016When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was...
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Directing
Slamdance 2016: Watch Interviews with Adam Rifkin, Penn and Teller from Director’s Cut
January 27, 2016Director’s Cut, Adam Rifkin and Penn Jillette’s warped comedy about obsession and moviemaking, opened the 22nd...
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Documentary
Family, Farming and Fostering Trust: Director Morgan Schmidt-Feng on Making On Her Own
July 10, 2015On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life. Farming...
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Documentary
Dancing with Death: How the Director of Huntington’s Dance Documented His Own Suicide Attempt
June 22, 2015It takes a braver-than-usual moviemaker to chronicle how an incurable disease has ravaged generations of his...
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Movie News
Exclusive: ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club Unveils June, July and August Titles (plus, a Ticket Giveaway!)
May 21, 2015ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club, the recently minted collaboration between Arclight Cinemas and the Slamdance Film...
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Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2015
April 8, 2015Was it worth it? Indie film, by definition, resides on the margins. It’s a medium of...
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Directing
Addictive Personalities: 20 Years of Madness Explores Friendship, Filmmaking and Mental Illness
April 1, 2015“If there’s anything else in life that you can do and be happy with, go do...
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Festivals
Slamdance 2015 Exclusive: Gabrielle Demeestere on Yosemite, and Coffee with James Franco
February 18, 2015From Closing Night of the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival comes Yosemite, the feature debut from writer/director...
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Festivals
Park City 2015: 13 Picks from Sundance and Slamdance
January 14, 2015After three exalted decades, Sundance maintains its spot on the international film festival circuit as the...
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