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Best Filmmaking Podcasts

The Best Filmmaking Podcasts: Our List of Essential Listening

Podcasts are especially great when it comes to filmmaking. We’re constantly bombarded by the visual side of things, and that…

The Art of Articulation: A Conversation with Alex Buono

Whether it’s documentaries, mockumentaries, feature films, or wildly popular television shows, you can probably find it somewhere on Alex Buono’s…

7 Filmmakers Discuss Jumping in Headfirst

Question: Are you the type of person who carefully checks the temperature of a swimming pool before slowly, over the…

Amirah Tajdin: Artists Should Question Everything

Writing about authors, Annie Dillard warns: “He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.…

9 Indie Filmmakers Talk About Higher Education

If you want to get filmmakers worked up in a hurry, talk about film school. Opinions are as varied as…

Meet the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective

Despite being necessarily collaborative, filmmaking can be lonely. And that loneliness can start to affect you — not just personally,…

Are Passion Projects A Waste? 6 Filmmakers’ Perspectives

A recurring topic in our conversations with independent filmmakers is how personal/passion projects have either launched, sustained, or saved their…

Directing Actors with Lenore Dekoven

If you we were to list all the reasons why you should listen to Lenore DeKoven’s advice about becoming a…

The Art of the Music Video: A Conversation with Mathy and Fran

We talked to Mathy and Fran about the nuts and bolts of creating music videos, the blessing of short deadlines,…