All posts tagged "sundance film festival"
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Skin Writer-Director Guy Nattiv On Turning His Oscar-Winning Short Into a Feature
In February Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producer-wife Jaime Ray Newman celebrated winning their first Academy Award for “Skin,” a 20-minute film about racism...
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Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support
“I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit by the proverbial bug. “My dad would take me to...
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The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The...
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Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons, values the sense of community being part of the...
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Embracing Your Inner Masochist: WIP Your Project Into Shape With Work-in-Progress Screenings
Let’s assume you’ve achieved the impossible: you’ve stressed your way through pre-production on your first feature, shot it on a shoe-string budget, and waded through...
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ISET Trendsetters: VR Moviemakers Jessica Brillhart and Gabo Arora’s Five Tips for Working in a Brave New Medium
As VR breaks new territory, matures as a medium, and the market for VR storytelling grows, it edges ever closer from specialty item to consumer...
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Sundance Film Festival: Seven Breakthrough Moviemakers at Park City in 2018
Much has been written about the smaller nature of this year’s Sundance 2018 Film Festival. While some applauded this return-to-roots of championing “emerging” voices, others...
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Stay Sad: Babis Makridis on Writing Pity With Oscar-Nominated Efthymis Filippou, Why There’s No “Greek Wave”
Drastic measures taken to attain a dangerous objective are a defining element in both of Babis Makridis’ feature-length auteur productions. For his 2012 debut L, the...
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Rabbits Out Of Hats: Five Basic Steps to Improvisational Indie Moviemaking From White Rabbit Director Daryl Wein
White Rabbit deals with a contemporary artist’s journey, and aspects of our star Vivian Bang’s performance art. The film presented some challenges to overcome in terms...
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The 2018 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: We Take the Pulse of Nine Narrative Features Playing in Park City
The 34th Sundance Film Festival received 3,901 feature-length submissions, and selected 110—the line-up that largely sets the tone for the year in independent film. The...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...