All posts tagged "slamdance"
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Articles - Moviemaking
Can You Shoot a Film Now With a Small Crew? Some Good Legal Advice (and Human Advice)
April 9, 2020Attorney David A. Pierce, who writes a law column for MovieMaker and is the counsel for...
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Movie News
Why You Shouldn’t Write, Direct, Produce and Edit Your Movie Yourself
March 2, 2020Okay, fine: Quentin Tarantino wrote, directed and produced Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. But if...
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Movie News
Slamdance Panelists Tell You How to Avoid 8 Film Festival Red Flags
February 17, 2020Keep your synopsis short and to the point. More importantly, keep your film short and to...
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Movie News
Up Close and Personal With the Slamdance Film Festival
January 23, 2020The Slamdance Film Festival has helped moviemakers launch great careers — and great relationships. “We’re connected,...
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Annual Lists
MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly
May 30, 2019In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states:...
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Moviemaking
The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget
January 25, 2019I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget...
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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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Festivals
2017 Slamdance Fest Preview: 10 Feature Film Picks From An Appropriately Eccentric Lineup
January 17, 2017If you’re going to Sundance, you’re going to Slamdance. And if you’re going to Slamdance, you’re...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: Creating the Showstopping "Living Mandala" Shot in Neptune With Composites
December 8, 2016One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of...
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Festivals
Canada Dreaming: Seasons Change, but Edmonton International Film Festival is Ace Year After Year
October 18, 2016It’s fall and the leaves are changing color. Dying, some might say. It’s the morning after...
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Fall 2016
The Pinch-Hitting Playbook: When Misfortune Claimed Its DP Mid-Shoot, An American in Texas Bounced Back
October 11, 2016The indie moviemaker’s mindset can be almost masochistic in its privation; it lives and dies by...
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Festivals
Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
October 21, 2015Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out...
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Documentary
Faking It: How Embellishing a Cage-Fight Sequence Brought Glena Closer to Truth
August 11, 2015Glena, Allan Luebke’s directorial debut, follows 30-something single-mother-turned-cage-fighter Glena Avila, who entered the professional world of...
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Articles
Park City 2014: 10 Picks From Sundance and Slamdance
January 9, 2014This is a very big year in Park City, Utah, with Sundance celebrating its 30th birthday...
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Festivals
Gaining Festival Momentum: How to Find Success Without Sundance, by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
September 19, 2013If you don’t premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle...
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Wisdom Wednesday:
Marc Forster’s Seven Golden Rules of MoviemakingSeptember 18, 2013Two decades into his career, director Marc Forster has 10 films under his belt— 10 diverse,...
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Articles - Directing
Things I’ve Learned As a Moviemaker: Kevin Smith
Director, screenwriter, sometimes actor, and all-around major geek Kevin Smith has deep roots in independent moviemaking,...
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We Make Movies (Better): Your down-and-dirty, first-timers guide to Sundance
It’s natural to have high expectations when you’re looking forward to a first-time experience. We spent...
Cinematography
Celebrating the Flavors of Filmmaking at Slamdance
Last month, Josh Gibson went to the Slamdance Film Festival with his short film Kudzu Vine…...
Directing
Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou Order $3,000 Take Out
In 2004, moviemakers Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou made their film Take Out on a budget...
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