Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend...
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...
View ArticleHigh Life Director Claire Denis Discusses Black Holes, Bringing an...
On the surface, many entries in Claire Denis’ filmography appear relatively easy to synopsize (her latest High Life follows a group of death row inmates condemned to travel through space in the name of...
View ArticleAustin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019, Presented by...
Whether you’re grinding it out in a large or small market, the first stage of moviemaking—screenwriting—is unenviably lonesome, full of endless drafts and a sea of revisions and second guesses. For...
View ArticleCaution Moviemakers: Directing Movies with Sensitive Subject Matter
An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten more politically correct. There was an evolution from the Hays Code established in the 1930s, which lead a...
View ArticleA Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the...
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the night. She remembers her last day with him, how he was eating a cookie during a happy family road trip....
View ArticleBreaking and Entering, Part Two: A Map To Finding Feature Funding
If you didn’t read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the Winter 2019 issue of MovieMaker. There, we broke down how to find the right project to make, what it takes to get your career...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful of the extensive epochal...
View ArticleHollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once...
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying to be flaky,” he insists, in a tenor that’s instantly recognizable—a disarming blend of politeness and...
View ArticleZhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While...
You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a team of daring filmmakers go undercover to expose the brutal truth behind the annual dolphin slaughter in...
View ArticleIndie Law: Our Entertainment Law Expert Pulls Your Legal Questions From The...
For this edition of Indie Law, we asked readers to send us their burning legal questions to be answered by our long-time favorite independent film counselor, David Pierce of the Pierce Law Group in...
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