5 Things Every Filmmaker Should Know Before Making Their First Feature

Launching your first feature is no small feat. Some will say the hardest part is finding an idea worth pursuing,…
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Producers Roundtable: How to Get Your Film Off the Ground

Director/Writer Ricky Staub and Producer/Writer Dan Walser are the founding team behind Neighborhood Film Co., a production team who recently…

How Two Brothers Created 17 Commercials (And One Incredible Short Film)

It’s easy to compare the creative life to the domino effect. One project can lead to another and each new…

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…

Lessons from Hollywood: Fixing Story Problems

It’s impossible to say what makes a film great. Useless to prescribe any rules, since often the best films break…

Matthew Porterfield on the Power of Unconventional Narratives

Matthew Porterfield, a 39-year-old filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, has written and directed four feature films, including Hamilton, Putty Hill, I…

How to Build a Comedy Around One Strong Idea

Tom Levinge’s comedic short, Mister Biscuits, is silly. It suspends reality by putting humans in the roles of beloved pets.…

Exploring the Power of Creative Constraints in 5 Examples

Creativity is full of paradoxes — not the least of which is the fact that having absolute creative freedom is…

4 Writing Tips from Director Lloyd Lee Choi

Why wait around for the perfect script to come your way, when you could spend time writing a script of…

Stick to What You Know: A Director’s Perspective

If you gave five different filmmakers the same prompt, you’d get five different films. That’s because every objective element of…