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: going into a...
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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 pitched for the...
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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 art-driven, for the...
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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 jointly illustrate for...
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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 a Sanskrit word...
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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 2011 Edmonton International...
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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 go on.” But...
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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 ’90s, there was...
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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 film premiered as...
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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 next week. Through...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...