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September 7, 2024
Sketch star Tony Hale and director Seth Worley on their Toronto International Film Festival Film about a child's drawings come…
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September 14, 2021
Filmmaker Penny Lane has a knack for making sympathetic documentaries about reviled and seemingly irredeemable people. Her latest is about…
March 21, 2019
Indian moviemaker Rima Das moved to Mumbai only to discover that for her, happiness and great art are found far…
December 13, 2018
What are some realistic goals when you take your indie to market? Consider these strategies for self-distribution to put power…
March 22, 2018
Austin Film Festival 2017 got screenwriters out of their heads and gave them a place get inspired by fantastic panels,…
October 16, 2017
Our inaugural list of The World's 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests will be your guide through the abyss of the…
September 28, 2017
The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) cut its film count by 20 percent, but still provided plenty of star…
September 8, 2017
As a result of directing TV commercials for 15 years, director Brian O'Malley storyboards everything—which came in handy for Gothic…
May 15, 2017
In Robin Swicord's Wakefield, Bryan Cranston escapes his seemingly idyllic life, choosing instead to observe his family secretly from their…
February 15, 2017
With Leonardo DiCaprio as its leading man, Fisher Stevens' Before the Flood became 2016's most-watched doc. But the activists' mission…
November 15, 2016
I just got back from IFP Film Week, where many of you asked me about film submission: “How can we…
October 6, 2016
Sophokles Tasioulis, producer of Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time, breaks down the business of IMAX and shares his quest to…
October 4, 2016
In Elite Zexer’s debut feature, Sand Storm, the generational effects of ancient gender bias in an Israeli Bedouin community are…
September 26, 2016
Photographer Fabrice Dall'Anese was MM's man on the ground at the Toronto International Film Festival, and captured the portraits in…
September 15, 2016
My feature Below Her Mouth was shot with an all-female crew. This allowed each department to bring a female perspective…
August 10, 2016
Moviemakers who take on controversy are often publicly flogged and branded as heretical, their films marched to the gallows before…
December 13, 2015
There's lots of guts and even more glory to be had on the horror film fest circuit. Keep this moviemakers'…
October 21, 2015
When Larry Fessenden was starting out in the late '80s and early '90s, there was not the same festival protocol…
July 24, 2015
Joshua Oppenheimer, one of the sharpest, most articulate filmmakers working today, had even more to say in a separate interview…
March 25, 2014
Little Feet, the latest project from writer-director Alexandre Rockwell, is our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week, and it's kicked off…
September 12, 2013
MovieMaker's latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day Three, our intrepid correspondent…
September 10, 2013
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father,…
September 9, 2013
Moviemaker.com's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2013 continues with correspondent Jeff Meyers' ongoing fest diary. Today he jots…
September 6, 2013
This is Jeff Meyers, reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival for MovieMaker Magazine. I'm a film writer and critic…