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February 14, 2019
Birds of Passage DP David Gallego breaks down the camerawork and color palette of Colombia’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar…
January 29, 2019
"Indie moviemakers need to think about money—obsess over it, never let it out of your sight," says Holly Star director…
August 23, 2018
Jeremiah Zagar's debut fiction feature We the Animals follows three rowdy brothers growing up in 1980s New York with two…
May 31, 2018
American Animals is the true story of four students who get lost in a fantasy of their own creation, only…
April 18, 2018
Friday, April 20 marks the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. In this MovieMaker-exclusive clip of And Then…
April 6, 2018
As Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass return to their roots with Outside In, we spoke with them about how their…
December 1, 2017
Sherwin Shilati's first feature People You May Know spotlights some of the absurdities of the social media world we find…
October 24, 2017
We asked indie multi-hyphenates Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass to guest edit MovieMaker's 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies. This…
September 25, 2017
To shoot Woodshock's characters' relationship to nature as a jarring experience, the film's cinematographer Peter Flinckenberg did all of his…
May 25, 2017
I just made a movie, Bread and Butter. We did not have a theatrical run. So how do I find…
April 21, 2017
Renaissance man Anthony Bourdain dishes out what he's learned in the kitchen, in front of the camera and, most recently,…
April 11, 2017
Michal Marczak’s docufiction All These Sleepless Nights follows Christopher and Michal over two summers in Warsaw as they drift from…
March 3, 2017
Watch writer/director/producer/actor Kris Avedisian's commentary on going for both style and efficiency when shooting his dark cringe comedy, Donald Cried.
November 3, 2016
Rainbow Time writer-director Linas Phillips interviews the cast of the film to uncover the truth about what actors really need…
October 2, 2014
Congratulations. Count yourself among the generation of moviemakers for whom Video on Demand (VOD) has progressed from novelty act to…
October 14, 2013
This week's DIY Monday finds Sheri Candler deconstructing the Orchard - a digital distributor. Read her interview with the company's…