All posts tagged "slamdance"
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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... -
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... -
Gaining Festival Momentum: How to Find Success Without Sundance, by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
If you don’t premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so. If you’re... -
Wisdom Wednesday:
Two decades into his career, director Marc Forster has 10 films under his belt— 10 diverse, successful, star-studded films. The talented director...
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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...Inside 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