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How Micro-Budget Indie Movie Transference: A Love Story Got 13 Million Views on YouTube (Video)

Raffaello Degruttola wrote, directed, produced, and acts in Transference: A Love Story. He did it all with a shoestring budget and…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro 

Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius…

5 years ago
  • Other

Swimming With the Stream: Entertainment Lawyer Lisa Callif on Creating Content in the Digital Era

Content creators in the digital era have it pretty good. You can create content on a shoestring budget–you can literally…

6 years ago
  • How They Did It

Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2016

The Business of Web Series: What are the Returns on Online Episodic Content — Monetary or Otherwise?

In early 2016, comedian Louis C.K. released his original series Horace & Pete exclusively on his website, louisck.net. Users paid…

8 years ago
  • Distribution
  • MM Guide 2016

Social Media for Moviemakers: Everything You Always Wanted to Know

Keeping up with your crazy cousins, reconnecting with your high-school crush, maybe even documenting your every meal—you use social media…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

The Cardinal Rules of Crowdfunding:The Five Basic Tenets You Need to Follow for a Successful Campaign

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last seven years, you or someone you know has ventured into…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016

MovieMaker’s Fourth Annual Guide to Digital Distribution: A Game of Thrones

What a difference a year makes. Independent film distribution has continued its blink-of-an-eye evolution into 2015 with Video on Demand…

8 years ago
  • Distribution

One Way or Another: Why I Released My Film for Free on YouTube

Within the independent film world, prestige is the name of the game. It's all about where you premiere, who represents…

9 years ago
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  • MM Guide 2014

Moviemaker’s Third Annual Guide to Digital Distribution

Congratulations. Count yourself among the generation of moviemakers for whom Video on Demand (VOD) has progressed from novelty act to…

10 years ago
  • DIY

DIY Monday: A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part Two by Sheri Candler

Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum…

10 years ago
  • DIY

DIY Monday: A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part One

Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum…

10 years ago