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June 23, 2025
Social Studies Director Lauren Greenfield on How Social Media Shapes Teenage Life
Social Studies director Lauren Greenfield on how she made the excellent Hulu docuseries about how social media shapes teens' lives.
April 22, 2021
Your Video Just Went Viral. Are You Sure You Own It?
Entertainment attorney David Albert Pierce says social media platforms can profit from your videos, but not in the ways you…
December 1, 2017
Exclusive:
Nick Thune and Kaily Smith Westbrook Trip on the Digital Age in This Clip From
People You May Know
(Video)
Sherwin Shilati's first feature People You May Know spotlights some of the absurdities of the social media world we find…
August 25, 2017
Recreating Revolution:
Mohamed Diab on Shooting
Clash
Entirely Inside a Van, and Getting a Letter From Tom Hanks
Clash director Mohamed Diab knew making a film on the Egyptian revolution would rile people up. He wasn't expecting Tom…
August 10, 2017
#BlessedProduction:
Ingrid Goes West
Director and Stars Talk Instagram Marketing, Social Media Creepiness and More
Get meta with our talk with Ingrid Goes West stars Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen and director Matt Spicer, which…
August 1, 2016
#TellMM Your Stories:
Make Your Voices Heard!
Searching for a social network of kindred moviemaking spirits? We're providing that to you with our ongoing social media dialogue…
December 10, 2015
The Indie Introvert’s Guide to Networking:
How to Work a Room, One Person at a Time
Networking can be particularly nerve-wracking for moviemakers, who start their careers wanting to do creative work, only to find themselves…
December 10, 2015
All Crewed Up
: Tips on Assembling Your Best Indie Crew
At its heart, your job as a director-producer is about constantly persuading someone to do something. Here’s how you build…
July 23, 2015
Thank You, Internet:
How Social Media Sparked and Enabled the Documentary
Twinsters
Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who in 2013 discovered…
March 2, 2015
The No-Budget Marketing Attack Plan:
Campaign Your Indie on the Cheap
You made your movie with little more than blood and sweat, and you can approach getting the word out about…
November 25, 2013
DIY Monday:
A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part Two
by Sheri Candler
Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum…
November 12, 2013
DIY Monday:
A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part One
Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum…
April 1, 2013
We Make Movies (Better): New grass roots and the digital age of moviemaking at SXSW
by Jennifer Flaks
I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of an interloper in the film world. I was an actress for 15 years, having