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 five years in Los Angeles,...
Addictive Personalities: 20 Years of Madness Explores Friendship, Filmmaking and Mental Illness
“If there’s anything else in life that you can do and be happy with, go do that. Because this is the most difficult path you...
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Top Big Cities: #4. Los Angeles
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities, Top 5...
American Film Showcase: Harrison Engle reminesces South Korea
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs launched the American Film Showcase (AFS) in October, 2011, with the goal of introducing...
Directing on a Dime: The Great Film School Question
Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is more The Blair Witch Project...
The 2007 MovieMaker Guide to Film Education
From one day to one year, completion certificates to PhDs, London to Los Angeles, whatever your film education desire, the growing crop of film education...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
9Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...