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March 11, 2016
Directed by Sunhanshu Saria, Loev's long journey to the SXSW Film Festival started at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
November 10, 2015
For an insider look to this year's AFI FEST presented by Audi, we asked participating filmmaker Alison Bagnall, whose feature…
April 20, 2015
Brett Morgen’s intro at South By Southwest for his new film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, was one of the…
March 10, 2015
How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about '60 musical legends—and tribute to his father,…
March 9, 2015
South by Southwest commences this week, running from March 13 to 22, 2015. Are you going to be there? While…
September 17, 2014
We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is…
Jeremy Saulnier Blue Ruin
April 23, 2014
Director Jeremy Saulnier retraces his path to winning the Indie Film Lotto with his sleek bullet of a revenge flick,…
February 3, 2014
Everyone's Going to Die, a UK indie by British Film Collective "Jones," has been selected as the winner of MANHATTAN…
October 9, 2013
On this gloomy October day in Los Angeles, we only thought it fitting to share the very Irish, very mordant…
October 1, 2013
Since his 2005 no-budget feature debut, Kissing on the Mouth, Joe Swanberg—at the age of 31—has already directed 17 feature…
September 19, 2013
If you don't premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so.
August 22, 2013
MovieMaker's pick of the films out in theaters this week is the award-winning, heart-pumping Short Term 12, and we're celebrating…
August 19, 2013
To the fledgling filmmaker, any kind of award from a jury of their peers or an enthusiastic audience matters a…
July 30, 2013
MovieMaker’s Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week is Dave Boyle’s The Man from Reno, a film about a Japanese author…
May 8, 2013
Independent production company Leeden Media has announced that it is eschewing traditional distribution offers for its new comedy-drama Some Girl(s)
April 1, 2013
I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of an interloper in the film world. I was an actress for 15 years, having