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In her career-best performance in Antonio Campos’ Christine, Rebecca Hall has found the darkness that she’s been looking for.
Cinematographer Elliot Davis, editor Steven Rosenblum and director/star Nate Parker discuss their collaborative process on The Birth of a Nation.
In Elite Zexer’s debut feature, Sand Storm, the generational effects of ancient gender bias in an Israeli Bedouin community are…
The title of Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl, alludes to Leah, a college student on a New York coming-of-age adventure, played…
Writer-director Robert Greene tells MovieMaker how he made performance his most valuable tool in his documentary-thriller hybrid, Kate Plays Christine.
Writer-director Joshua Marston speaks with MovieMaker on pacing, plotting and shooting his Michael Shannon/Rachel Weisz-starring feature, Complete Unknown.
Equity is a celebration of strong women who exist in worlds almost entirely run by men—who aren't ready to vacate…
Roger Ross Williams’ Sundance-winning documentary Life, Animated is testament to movies' power to be so much more than just entertainment.
Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival's official photographer since 2003, a post that gives him the unusual privilege…
There's lots of guts and even more glory to be had on the horror film fest circuit. Keep this moviemakers'…
Director Ramin Bahrani and actor Michael Shannon discuss 99 Homes, a thriller based on real estate corruption and the Florida…
Victoria, Texas-based organization Film Exchange helps design unofficial incentives for low-budget producers looking to shoot in Victoria and the outlying…
How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about '60 musical legends—and tribute to his father,…
Premiering at Sundance, Turbo Kid was written and directed by RKSS, who share their thoughts, inspirations, and methods to stay…
Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals celebrate decades of filmmaking in 2015 in a major way.
We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is…
With a divide between representation of female cinematographers in the studio and independent sectors, can discrimination have an inadvertent plus…
Director Jeremy Saulnier retraces his path to winning the Indie Film Lotto with his sleek bullet of a revenge flick,…
Presented in alphabetical order, the following are 10 moviemakers who made career breakthroughs at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as…
Last week at Sundance and Slamdance, we loaned out the MovieMaker Instagram account to four different sets of filmmakers who…
In which MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers catches some hitRECord samplings, a Norwegian psychological thriller, and (what else?) parties parties parties…
In the second dispatch of his Sundance 2014 diary, MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers talks Locke, international distribution strategy and a…
MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers brings us a behind-the-scenes look at independent film's finest, the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
The 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, as always, awarded some of the most progressive young filmmakers in the world with