All posts tagged "South by Southwest"
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Festivals
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2017
July 24, 2017Keith Richards said it best: “If you gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.” The...
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Directing
Persistence Pays Off: Alien: Covenant‘s Katherine Waterston is Finally Ready For Her Close-Up
May 17, 2017Do a cursory scroll through the IMDb page of Katherine Waterston, and you’ll find someone who—on...
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Interviews
Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
March 22, 2017Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond...
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Other
Crowd-Teasers: Donald Cried Trailer Features Scant Crying, Lots of Uncomfortable Smiling
February 2, 2017In sharp contrast with the film’s title, the trailer for Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried features a...
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Directing
Team-Directing: What We Learned By Making Our Feature Drama Claire in Motion as a Pair
January 9, 2017Many years ago, two friends who had been film school classmates decided to make something together....
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Festivals
Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
November 15, 2016Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really...
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Documentary
Weighty Responsibility: Kim A. Snyder on Making Newtown, a Documentary Centered on Terrible Tragedy
October 3, 2016It’s almost been four years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, which took 20 kids,...
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Directing
Cinema is Dead: Todd Rohal and Kent Osborne Poke Fun at the Movies with “Unwanted Sequel” Uncle Kent 2
August 25, 2016Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Sometimes...
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How They Did It
Casting a Light: Lessons on Finding the Right Actors From Before the Sun Explodes
May 26, 2016When my writing and producing partner, Zeke Farrow, and I set out to cast our film...
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Acting
Let Other Voices In: Don Cheadle Talks Miles Ahead, Empowering His Team, and Influences from Beatty to PTA
March 31, 2016It’s as daunting a task to play a icon in a film as it is to...
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Interviews
Takeaways from Producing an Indie Sensation: Six Lessons One Krisha Producer Learned
March 18, 2016We’ve heard case after case of hungry independent filmmakers who shoot their first films on a...
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Directing
Augmented Needs: Director Benjamin Dickinson Makes Technology Visceral in Creative Control
March 11, 2016Science-fiction premises and impressive futuristic settings are absolutely possible in independent cinema—if they’re grounded on skillful...
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Documentary
SXSW 2016: Why the Doc Best and Most Beautiful Things Took Six Years to Make, and Needed Every Minute of it
March 11, 2016The beauty of DIY is that you get to dream the biggest dreams you can. The...
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Directing
Fact, Fiction or All of the Above? The Sweaty Betty Directors Break Down Their One-of-a-Kind Movie
January 5, 2016Sweaty Betty tells the story of a family, the Riches, who are determined to make their...
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Fall 2015
Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals
December 13, 2015No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the...
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Spring 2015
The Art of the Interview: 10 Essential Tenets of On-Camera Conversation
October 19, 2015Ken Burns stopped. The legendary documentarian typically plows forward with the relentless tenacity of a cragged...
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Fall 2015
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2015
September 2, 2015We go to film festivals for the same reasons we see our favorite bands in concert....
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Fall 2014
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2014
November 17, 2014Our annual list of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful cinematic celebrations: the 25 Coolest Film...
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