All posts tagged "sxsw"
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Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David... -
The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget
I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget filmmaking that I put together and... -
Inside the Creative Process: Karyn Kusama Walks Through Five Phases of Production, From Screenwriting to Distribution
Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in 2000 with her debut feature Girlfight,... -
Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up
Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer updates—must work... -
Exclusive: Pamela Adlon Won’t Let Michael Kelly Get All Square That Easy (Video)
John Zbikowski (Michael Kelly) is a small town bookie having a hard time collecting on outstanding debts. After a one night stand... -
"You Don’t Have to Be a Friend. Just Establish Trust": Dealt’s Luke Korem on Getting Doc Subjects to Be Themselves
MovieMaker got to spend some time with Richard Turner at SXSW this year and we can confirm a common rumor about him: Richard... -
Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment
Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn’t as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon’s—she was the first African-American to receive a... -
Delivering Results: How Alice Lowe Wrote Prevenge in a Week and Shot it in 11 Days… While Pregnant
So, I had been attempting to develop a feature, with a view to directing. But development was slow and torturous: three years... -
Who Does Native American Culture Belong To?: Mat Hames Poses the Question in Documentary What Was Ours
Mat Hames is a filmmaker who is more interested in raising questions than giving answers. That much is clear from the titles... -
Crowd Teasers: Joel Edgerton Threatens Violence From Behind a Sick Beard in It Comes at Night Trailer
Exactly half of the trailer for Trey Edward Shults’ new thriller It Comes at Night consists of an eerie walk down a...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8