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The Slamdance film festival will go online in 2021, while also offering an in-person, invite-only gathering in Joshua Tree
David A. Pierce offered legal advice for filmmakers struggling through COVID-19. Among the questions he answered: Can you still shoot…
Quentin Tarantino wore many hats on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. But if you're an aspiring moviemaker, you shouldn't…
Participants at a Slamdance panel tell you how to avoid some film festival red flags and make the best impression…
Great moviemakers have launched from the Slamdance Film Festival, and so have great relationships, says festival co-founder Peter Baxter.
Test your screenplay might with our inaugural round-up of the 15 toughest and most rewarding screenwriting contests, presented by Coverfly.
Now seeking distribution amidst critical praise, Morrisa Maltz's Ingrid is a textbook example of how to get the most out…
For all of the inevitable comparisons to the bigger “dance” it invites, Slamdance Film Festival 2018 was only interested in…
If you're going to Sundance, you're going to Slamdance (running January 20-26, 2017). And if you're going to Slamdance, you're…
One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. The…
It’s the morning after the opening night party of the Edmonton International Film Festival. My film The Untitled Work of…
Anthony Pedone had been working on An American in Texas since 2010, and might have been open to losing an…
When Larry Fessenden was starting out in the late '80s and early '90s, there was not the same festival protocol…
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." Picasso may not have been referring to documentary filmmaking, but…
This is a very big year in Park City, Utah, with Sundance celebrating its 30th birthday and Slamdance its 20th.
If you don't premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so.
Two decades into his career, director Marc Forster only has 10 films under his belt—that is, 10 diverse, successful, star-studded…
Since storming the film scene in 1994, Kevin Smith has come to define the role of the 21st-century, "independent moviemaker."…
It’s natural to have high expectations when you’re looking forward to a first-time experience. We spent weeks reveling in excitement
Josh Gibson went to the Slamdance Film Festival with his short film Kudzu Vine… and came back a Panasonic AG-AF100,…
In 2004, moviemakers Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou made their film Take Out on a budget of $3,000 out of…