Career
We’ve been fans of Diego Contreras since before his breakthrough film Islands nabbed a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2013. Since…
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We’ve talked about healthy ways of receiving feedback. Now let’s talk about healthy ways of giving it. In almost every…
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If you don’t know Joey L. from his work for the National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, or charity: water…
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Years ago, someone gave me a piece of business advice I haven’t forgotten: “Find a competitor,” he said, “and learn…
Why do we make films? It would be so much easier not to. The poet Charles Simic said: “I write…
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Creativity is such a fragile thing. Maybe that’s why entire mythologies have been built around it — everything from the…
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If you want to get filmmakers worked up in a hurry, talk about film school. Opinions are as varied as…
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When filmmakers think of pacing, they typically think of plot, scenes, music, editing. But there’s another form of pacing that’s…
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Despite being necessarily collaborative, filmmaking can be lonely. And that loneliness can start to affect you — not just personally,…
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Any act of creativity takes some amount of audacity. Films more than most. You have to believe your vision is…
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