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  • Movie News

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2022

Before we begin our latest list of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker: Some obvious background.…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News: Oliver Stone on Scarface; Best Opening Scenes; Film Abides

In today's Movie News Rundown: Oliver Stone looks back on Scarface, a film that threatened his relationships with Al Pacino…

4 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities

"The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during…

5 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Adapting Natasha: For This Film About the Russian-Jewish Immigrant Experience, the Key Was in the Casting

In 2002, I wrote the short story “Natasha” as a kind of repudiation of filmmaking. I’d returned to Toronto after…

7 years ago
  • Best Of

Interactive Map: Explore the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2017

Take a virtual tour of our 26 favorite filmmaking cities in North America on our interactive map of the Best…

7 years ago
  • Inside MM - Best Of
  • Winter 2017

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017

As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes,…

7 years ago
  • Festivals
  • MM Guide 2013

Gaining Festival Momentum: How to Find Success Without Sundance, by Kyle Patrick Alvarez

If you don't premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so.…

11 years ago