“What I Want My Words to Do to You” Voices of Women in Maximum Security Prison
The documentary, What I Want My Words to Do to You, tracks a writing group led by playwright/activist Eve Ensler,…
Making Films
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Building a Killer Press Kit
The press kit is the most important tool for any filmmaker seeking media coverage, but many independent film press kits…
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Getting Coverage
One of the great truths of media is that there is no such thing as bad press, but how to…
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High-Tech Homebrew
The past few years have seen significant advances in the tools for creating visual effects with desktop computers. Yet these…
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The Strange and Wonderful World of “American Splendor”
From American Splendor’s first shots, you know you are watching something unusual: It’s Halloween, 1950, and the neighborhood runts are…
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Site Seeing
While cleaning out my attic in 1998 I had an idea for a short film. I found a box of…
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Living the Indie Life
The notion of the starving artist is a romantic one. Sepia-toned images float through our collective minds of creative geniuses…
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Field Report
Independent producers in Los Angeles are finding more ways of getting their work produced, critiqued, and distributed. Still, there is…
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Puerto Rico
I did not come here to kill. I came here to die. – Lolita Lebrón On March 1, 1954, Lolita…