All posts tagged "toronto international film festival"
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Movie News
In Listening to Kenny G, a Smooth Jazz Icon Shakes Off the Haters
September 14, 2021Filmmaker Penny Lane has a knack for making sympathetic documentaries about reviled and seemingly irredeemable people...
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Directing
Out of the Ordinary: How Indian Moviemaker Rima Das Finds Beauty In Everyday Life
March 21, 2019In an incandescent moment in Indian moviemaker Rima Das’ third feature Bulbul Can Sing, the titular character, an Assamese teenage girl, is guided...
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Distribution
A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go
December 13, 2018Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for...
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Movie News
Austin Film Festival 2017: Inside the City Limits, the 24-Year-Old Fest Grows in Stature Each Year
March 22, 2018On May of 2013, after an intense “writing” day of accomplishing nothing but staring blankly at...
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Movie News
The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
October 16, 2017The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered...
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Festivals
“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming
September 28, 2017This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it...
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Directing
How They Did It: Why Storyboarding was Crucial to Creating the Gothic Big House of The Lodgers
September 8, 2017A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was...
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Directing
Bryan Cranston Goes Feral: Writer-Director Robin Swicord on Her Strange New Feature, Wakefield
May 15, 2017What if you could disappear from your own life, but still, somehow, watch it go on...
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Documentary
Turning the Tide: With Over 60 Million Views, Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood Warms New Generations to Environmentalism
February 15, 2017He was, like the rest of us who count ourselves among the environmental community, still emotionally...
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Festivals
Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
November 15, 2016Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really...
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Producing
Expanding the Doc Universe: Producing Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time, and the Business of IMAX
October 6, 2016Those of you who are familiar with film markets—either those happening in conjunction with a festival...
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Directing
Bedouin Dreams: Elite Zexer Talks Ancient Gender Bias in Israel’s Oscar Entry Sand Storm
October 4, 2016Patriarchal societies—by definition—hinder the development of women’s abilities in roles outside of homemaking and providing care....
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2016: Top Talent Shine in Our TIFF Gallery
September 26, 2016Photographer Fabrice Dall’Anese was MovieMaker‘s man on the ground at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival,...
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Directing
The Benefits of an All-Female Crew: How the Women Behind Below Her Mouth Made Intimacy Tangible
September 15, 2016Below Her Mouth, the TIFF-premiering feature that I directed, was shot with an all-female crew. This...
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Festivals
The Film Festival Court of Controversy: How Festivals Moderate Discussions Before Films Reach Theaters
August 10, 2016In the world of studio and independent filmmaking circa 2016, anything goes so frequently, and in...
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Fall 2015
Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals
December 13, 2015No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the...
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Festivals
Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
October 21, 2015Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out...
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Documentary
“I Don’t Give Audiences Breathers:” More Conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer
July 24, 2015In MovieMaker‘s Summer 2015 issue, critic Sam Adams interviewed Joshua Oppenheimer and offered a sage contemplation...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Little Feet
March 25, 2014Little Feet, the latest project from writer-director Alexandre Rockwell, is our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week,...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Three: Unforgiven, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said, The Double
September 12, 2013MovieMaker’s latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Two: Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering...
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