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VOD Indie Hits: Austenland, CBGB, Sunset Strip and More
Watch cutting-edge indie cinema online on MovieMaker.com without having to leave the MovieMaker community. VOD company Yekra is revolutionary, democratic and DIY: everything we believe in at MovieMaker...
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MovieMaker Magazine Spring 2014: The Activism in Film Issue, On Stands April 22!
MovieMaker #108 Preview: THE ACTIVISM IN FILM ISSUE: CAN MOVIEMAKERS SAVE THE WORLD? The Spring 2014 issue is on newsstands, and available digitally, starting April 22, 2014. Inside, MovieMaker takes...
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Why We Like: Luc Besson’s Lucy Trailer by Heidi Honeycutt
In our new online series “Why We Like,” MovieMaker editors break down a freshly-released trailer of an upcoming film we’re excited about. Today we’re spotlighting Luc Besson’s new action-thriller,...
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Under the Skin and Out of the Box: A Short Discussion of Guerrilla Filmmaking
Jonathan Glazer’s startlingly original Under the Skin, based on the novel by Dutch novelist Michael Faber, employs a guerilla shooting technique equal parts disorienting and thought-provoking. We take...
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18 Films For 18 Friends:the MovieMaker Gift Guide
What do you give the friend that has everything? A movie they haven’t seen, of course! With MovieMaker‘s VOD multiplex boasting new 18 titles, we put together a little gifting guide for 18 different...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Forbidden Zone 2
This week’s crowdfunder pick is Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone 2. Fantastic, revolutionary, and irreverent in every way, Elfman epitomizes underground independent filmmaking. In 1980, director Richard...
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The Ultimate “It Gets Better” Story: Director Jeffrey Schwarz of I Am Divine
Out on DVD today, I Am Divine is the story of Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine, aka the most beautiful woman in the world. Director Jeffrey Schwarz (who previously won an Emmy for HBO documentary...
View ArticleWhy We Like: Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child Trailer
At first glance, Gillian Robespierre’s feature-length independent comedy might seem like another “first-world-problem”/bourgeois New York City drama about the general malaise hitting affluent members...
View ArticleWhy We Like: Jim Mickle’s Cold in July Trailer
Jim Mickle’s new Cold in July trailer guarantees grit, guns, blood, and tears. Not necessarily in that order. Jim Mickle’s first two films Stake Land and Mulberry St were entertaining, if not very...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Film Critic: The Movie
Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week is Film Critic: The Movie, a comedy about following your passions in a way that can only be described as a cross between Christopher Guest and Calvin & Hobbes. Film...
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Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters
Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is specifically targeting crowd-funded films via a new...
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Preventing Piracy: Rallying the Troops under CreativeFuture
Anti-piracy advocates band together under CreativeFuture, a site that mobilizes against illegal for-profit media platforms and promotes legitimate online distribution. Launched in February 2014 to...
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Myth of the Two Percent: Why Hollywood’s Shifting Views on Female...
David Geffner interviewed seven of America’s “hottest female cinematographers” for issue 35 of MoveMaker in 1999. He began the article by promising that, “…there will come a time in Hollywood, and it...
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Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of...
No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a handful to submit to can be a little frightening. Incredibly, almost every major (and many...
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Looking Alive: Five Ways to Survive Your Horror Film’s Festival Run
Now that your genre film has gotten into a festival, how will you survive it? 1. If your horror film is screening at a mainstream film festival with multiple genres, you’ll probably be placed in a...
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Box-Office Prophets: The Rise of the Faith-Based Film Industry
Call them what you will. “Christian,” or “faith-based” or “inspirational/spiritual/ministry” films are good business in 2016. Major studios and independent production companies alike (amongst them...
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