All posts tagged "sundance"
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Movie News
Documentaries That Deserve Distribution — So Everyone Can Finally See Them
May 1, 2020We want to recommend some fantastic documentaries: The Donut King, P.S. Burn This Letter Please, M for...
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Movie News
Sundance Moviemakers Share Inside Tips — and Who They Want to Meet
January 22, 2020It’s going to be a vivacious and unforgettable Sundance Film Festival, if the responses to our...
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Movie News
Relic Director Natalie Erika James: How I Felt Through the Darkness to My Sundance Debut
January 20, 2020Director Natalie Erika James makes her Sundance Film Festival feature debut this week with Relic, a...
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Annual Lists
MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly
May 30, 2019In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states:...
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Acting
Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support
February 14, 2019“I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit...
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Moviemaking
The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget
January 25, 2019I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget...
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Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
January 25, 2019The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the...
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Interviews
Singapore Plays Itself: In Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a Nation (and its Daughter) Come of Age Onscreen
October 27, 2018Beautiful Convergence When it opened in 1930, Singapore’s Capitol Theatre was a glittering picture palace, the...
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Directing
We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
August 23, 2018Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel...
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Cinematography
Eye Piece: DP Shabier Kirchner Lensed Skate Kitchen on Wheels, But Didn’t Skate Through His Demanding Shoot
August 9, 2018As DP on Skate Kitchen—writer-director Crystal Moselle’s first narrative feature about an all-female skateboarding crew coming...
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Editing
How They Did It: Editing is “Spelunking Into the Soul,” Say Madeline’s Madeline‘s Josephine Decker and Harrison Atkins
August 9, 2018By the time indie darling Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline emerged as a top pick of the...
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Directing
Pieces of Work: Marc Turtletaub on Moving from Producing Indie Darlings to the Director’s Chair for Puzzle
July 30, 2018You will know the work of prolific producer and sometime director Marc Turtletaub, but may not...
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Directing
Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
July 3, 2018Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons,...
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Movie News
Flash Forward: Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Acting Out Activism Through His Role Selections
July 1, 2018“I love first-time filmmakers, because I feel like they have more patience with me. We’re going...
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Moviemaking
Sundance Film Festival: Seven Breakthrough Moviemakers at Park City in 2018
February 23, 2018Much has been written about the smaller nature of this year’s Sundance 2018 Film Festival. While...
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Directing
Stay Sad: Babis Makridis on Writing Pity With Oscar-Nominated Efthymis Filippou, Why There’s No “Greek Wave”
February 16, 2018Drastic measures taken to attain a dangerous objective are a defining element in both of Babis...
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Other
Sundance Runsheet: Attending Filmmakers Shouldn’t Fest Without Checking These Boxes First
January 22, 2018Upon learning you are invited to Sundance, you should immediately (if you haven’t already)… 1. Hire...
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Distribution
Transparency Quid Pro Quo : A Breakdown of Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship Submissions
December 13, 2017Liz Manashil and Jess Fuselier, managers of the Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship and the Research & Education for...
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MM Guide 2018
Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
November 14, 2017We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a...
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Distribution
Don’t Wait for a Deal to Float Your Way. Self-Distribution Can Be Plan A For Your Feature
November 8, 2017David Larkin, CEO and founder of GoWatchIt, once argued that all independent filmmakers need to approach...
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Movie News
ICYMI: The Best of August 2017 on MovieMaker.com
September 1, 2017Remember Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Unless a traumatic romance left you running to the mind-altering...
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Directing
Site-Specific Art: Video Essayist and First-Time Director Kogonada Takes a Chance on the Subtle Columbus
August 15, 2017Late at night, Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) and Jin (John Cho), two people that barely know...
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Festivals
Festival Wrap: Dallas Fest EARTHxFilm Counters Environmental Doomsday Narratives With A Message of Hope
May 2, 2017Recently wrapping its seventh year, Earth Day Texas is the largest annual environmental forum in the...
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Moviemaking
Delivering Results: How Alice Lowe Wrote Prevenge in a Week and Shot it in 11 Days… While Pregnant
March 24, 2017So, I had been attempting to develop a feature, with a view to directing. But development...
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