All posts tagged "slamdance"
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MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly
In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states: “Writing is finally about one thing:... -
The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget
I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget filmmaking that I put together and... -
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... -
2017 Slamdance Fest Preview: 10 Feature Film Picks From An Appropriately Eccentric Lineup
If you’re going to Sundance, you’re going to Slamdance. And if you’re going to Slamdance, you’re going to Sundance. These two sentences... -
How They Did It: Creating the Showstopping "Living Mandala" Shot in Neptune With Composites
One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. Though “mandala” is... -
Canada Dreaming: Seasons Change, but Edmonton International Film Festival is Ace Year After Year
It’s fall and the leaves are changing color. Dying, some might say. It’s the morning after the opening night party of the... -
The Pinch-Hitting Playbook: When Misfortune Claimed Its DP Mid-Shoot, An American in Texas Bounced Back
The indie moviemaker’s mindset can be almost masochistic in its privation; it lives and dies by that ringmaster’s mantra “the show must... -
Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late ’80s and early... -
Faking It: How Embellishing a Cage-Fight Sequence Brought Glena Closer to Truth
Glena, Allan Luebke’s directorial debut, follows 30-something single-mother-turned-cage-fighter Glena Avila, who entered the professional world of MMA to support her family. The... -
Park City 2014: 10 Picks From Sundance and Slamdance
This is a very big year in Park City, Utah, with Sundance celebrating its 30th birthday and Slamdance its 20th as of...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8