All posts tagged "slamdance"
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The Rundown
What Cinema Is For; Malice at the Palace; Titane Comes to NYC
August 11, 2021Dissecting the legendary “Malice at the Palace” brawl; the eye-popping Cannes winner Titane steers its way...
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Movie News
How to Sustain Yourself Financially as an Indie Filmmaker
July 7, 2021Dan Mirvish is a director, screenwriter, producer and author. He’s currently in post-production on his new...
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2021 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway
May 22, 2021The 2021 film festival landscape is all about recovery, and almost every festival expects this year...
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What Screenwriting Competitions Want
What Screenwriting Competitions Want, Presented by Coverfly
April 19, 2021Rejection. If you want to be a screenwriter, you better get used to it. But the...
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The Rundown
The Last Blockbuster; Tom Hanks on Solitaire; You've Finished Your Film — Now What?
March 19, 2021In today’s Movie News Rundown: Tom Hanks is done playing solitaire; how Blockbuster Video went from...
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Movie News
Slamdance Doc A Tiny Ripple of Hope Tracks One Man’s Sacrifices to Help Chicago Youth (Exclusive Clip)
February 22, 2021A Tiny Ripple of Hope — now available to stream through the Slamdance Film Festival — follows...
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The Rundown
A Slamdance Suggestion; Listen to Jodie Foster; Mission: Impossible: Changed
February 16, 2021In today’s Movie News Rundown: A great Jodie Foster interview on her entire career; Mission: Impossible...
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Movie News
Slamdance Seizes on Virtual Fest to Spark Greater Love of Indie Film
February 11, 2021Slamdance Film Festival president and c0-founder Peter Baxter is well aware of how expensive it is...
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The Rundown
New Stanley Kubrick; Slamdance Intel; Danny Trejo’s Memoir; Maria Bakalova Joins Apatow
February 10, 2021In today’s jammed Movie News Rundown: A Q&A packed with Slamdance intel; a lost Stanley Kubrick...
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December Rundown
The Rundown: Godfather III, Re-Edited; Peter Dinklage, Toxic Avenger; Zappa; Zapped
December 1, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Does a new edit improve Godfather Part III?; Peter Dinklage IS...
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Movie News
‘Greenlight Yourself’: Slamdance Unveils Full Lineup, Showcase for Filmmakers With Disabilities
November 30, 2020The Slamdance Film Festival announced what it calls its “most accessible festival ever” — an online...
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Oct Rundown
Movie News: Jurassic Shutdown; Patty Jenkins’ Warning; Who’s Watching The Boys?
October 8, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has a dire warning about the...
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Festivals
Slamdance Goes Online — and to Joshua Tree — for 2021
October 7, 2020Slamdance will take a break from its longtime home in Park City, Utah next year in...
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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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