Leslye Headland on Theater vs. Film
by Jacob Appet on September 12, 2012Leslye Headland on the difficulty of making the jump.
Julie La’Basseire on the Importance of Trailers
by Jacob Appet on August 29, 2012Julie La’Basseire urges you to get that trailer up on Youtube already!
Director Bennett Miller on Editing
by Cait Carvalho on August 22, 2012Bennett Miller (writer/director, Moneyball, Capote) explains his editing process and the importance of slowing things down and taking the time to examine a film.
Jonathan Ames on Making Revisions
by Jacob Appet on August 15, 2012Jonathan Ames on cutting and being a hard-ass.
From the 2012 Script to Screen Conference.
Alrick Brown on Being a Black Filmmaker
by Jacob Appet on August 7, 2012Alrick Brown discusses unique challenges that face minority filmmakers.
From the IFP’s recent Industry Connect Event with DCTV and the NYTVF
Don Cheadle’s “Envision” Keynote Address on Sustainability and Activist Filmmaking
by Dan Schoenbrun on May 2, 2012Actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) delivers the closing keynote address from Envision 2012: Stories for a Sustainable Future.
Here, he discusses his career, issues of sustainability, and the merits of social issue filmmaking.
Envision 2012 was presented by IFP, the United Nations Department of Public Information, and the Ford Foundation on …
Director Bennett Miller on Barry Lyndon
by Cait Carvalho on April 20, 2012Bennett Miller (writer/director, Moneyball, Capote) discusses Barry Lyndon and how the screenplay is only one facet of the spell that Kubrick’s film casts.
Director Bennett Miller on Developing Characters
by Cait Carvalho on April 12, 2012Bennett Miller (Director, Moneyball, Capote) explains how characters and their stories can transcend themselves and mean much more than what lies on the surface.
