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Making a movie is brutal. It's hard. We know.But the lead-up to the green light might even be worse. Before you get to hire actors or buy props, you often have to sit across from s...
Independent filmmaking often means making decisions around time constraints, budget, equipment, and resources. But those decisions also come with important lessons about filmmaking...
The quickest way to lose a cinematic point of view on a branded film is to treat the brief as a shot list. The client needs the facility, the product, the team, an interview and th...
When people hear that my feature film Contradiction was made with a zero-dollar budget, they usually imagine a chaotic production held together by luck.Parts of it were.Over nearly...
Sir Rildey Scott is nearing 90 years old and still directing movies in his own way. The director, who is never short of opinions, In an interview published by filmmaker Patrick Tom...
“It’s a simple thing… If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Blocking is one of those invisible and maybe not-as-glamorous aspects of filmmaking. It's the choreography of where your actors stand, if and when they move, and how the camera fra...
Hollywood is a town built on legends and legendary figures, and there are very few whose careers have been as staggering as Jack Nicholson's. The guy is a titan of American cinema...
Making stuff is hard. There are obstacles every step of the way. But at so many points of your filmmaking journey, the thing holding you back might just be… you. You have to finish...
If you're into movie-making (which we guess you are, because you're here right now), you know that the way independent films get financed has shifted hard in the last few years. So...
I remember renting Airplane! on VHS and laughing so hard milk came out of my nose. That could have been last week, but it was probably 30 years ago. The comedy mastermind behind th...
Every filmmaker has probably watched a scene and thought, I don't believe a single person in this room actually exists.Cinematographer and director Spenser Sakurai has a name for w...
From the moment when I began thinking about making the short film Iakwe: Hello, Goodbye in late 2024, I knew that it would need to be shot in Northwest Arkansas. However, what I di...
Avery Dohrmann is a filmmaker who wrote for us back in 2023 about making his debut feature, Our Final Days in Paradise, at 20. He's back with a video essay on visual literacy, and...
I came to filmmaking through acting. After years of auditions and waiting for someone else to give me the part I wanted to play, I started writing one for myself.Then I made a shor...
Martin Scorsese has made some of the most meticulously composed images in American movies. I mean, have you seen the Copa tracking shot? What about the stark black-and-white drama...
Do you know how long it takes to make a film? It’s, like, a really long process. It takes a long time. That is, if you’re doing it right from development to release.What does that...
I was just talking to my creative partner this week about the feature we want to make, and we hemmed and hawed about comps, how ours was unique, and whether it mattered. I told him...
Producer Nick Morton spent 30 years in Hollywood, first as a development executive at Philip Anschutz's Bristol Bay Productions on films like Ray and Sahara, then at Phoenix Pictur...
Keep it short, tell a unique story, and don’t send a nasty email if your film gets rejected: Those were The post Be Concise, Original and Nice: 3 Film Festival Directors Tell Movie...
With live-action adaptations like “Lilo and Stitch 2” and “Tangled” in production, the conversation about whether these films are doing their animated counterparts justice continue...
Let me know if this has happened to you: you have a great idea for a scene, but the more you try to add details from your research or incorporate facts, the more you end up kind of...
If you get on a set and start to discuss shot ideas and camera set-ups with your DP, you might, in the moment, hear them say, "We can't do that. It crosses the line."Not some metap...
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