Festivals: Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee
Update, April 8, 2014: We will be announcing the results of the 2014 “50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” list on moviemaker.com over the next few weeks, starting tomorrow, April 9. Please check back...
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Activism in Film: In Step with Oliver Stone
In our Spring issue, we asked Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone if film can make a difference in vanquishing the darkness and rot that has pervaded through humanity’s ages. Stone, whose...
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How They Did It: The Incredible-but-True Story of Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin‘s director-writer-DP, Jeremy Saulnier, shares one of MovieMaker‘s greatest “How They Did It” stories of all time, lying, begging and impoverishing himself on the way to Cannes glory with his...
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Can Your Movie Change the World? The Activism in Film Guide for Social Issue...
Beth Portello of social issue film distributor Cinema Libre Studio is no stranger to moviemakers trying to change the world. Along with her husband, independent director Philippe Diaz, Portello is...
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Best Of: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2014
Feast your eyes on MovieMaker‘s complete list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2014. Despite original plan to publish the list in installments (we had already begun here and here), we’ve...
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The No-Budget Marketing Attack Plan: Campaign Your Indie on the Cheap
So you’ve finished your movie. You’ve taken it on the festival circuit, and you’ve signed with a digital distributor who will be releasing it onto a score of VOD platforms. You’re scanning through your...
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Mindful Moviemaking: Put Your Film in the Green and Save the Environment, Too
My decision to change the name and philosophy of my thriving production company, Tidal Wave Productions, to Green Shoot Films, and launch the first eco-friendly film production company in South Africa,...
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How They Did It: The Incredible-but-True Story of Blue Ruin
Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My initial attempts to diminish or deny this reality seemed more and more like false modesty as the fairytale unfolded....
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Porn Hacks: What the “Legitimate” Indie Moviemaker Can Pick Up From...
In the summer of 1977, filmgoers flocked in record numbers to behold the rousing tale of a jejune moppet ripening to vigor and masculinity by tarrying about seedy bars, wielding with swelling...
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