A Recipe for Indie Success: The Tried-and-True Methods Behind Blake Robbins’ The Scent of Rain & Lightning
How was it possible to take a New York Times best-selling novel—spanning more than 20 years and dealing with 13 unique characters and a whole...
The Adept Adapter: A Primer on Adaptation (i.e. Hacking Someone’s Great Idea and Making it Your Own)
Maybe it’s a childhood favorite you’ve always dreamed of seeing on a big screen, or a recommendation from your mother who read it all in...
Hitchhike a Thousand Miles: Oscar nominee John Hawkes gives seven tips for surviving the film industry
I’m an untrained actor with no formal education in moviemaking. I learned my trade by observing the work of others, reading books about actin and...
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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...
11Inside 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...