Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

This article was written by John Farr. “When Kathryn Bigelow snagged Best Picture and Best Director at last year’s Oscars, I was thrilled primarily because a) I thought the picture (“The Hurt Locker”) richly deserved it; and b) I hated the idea of the visually stunning but narratively challenged “Avatar” — and its prickly, unabashedly [...]

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This article was written by Mary Murphy. “The statistics are scary. “In 2007, females were only 2.7% of all the directors and 11.2% of all the writers employed across the 100 top-grossing films,” says Stacy Smith, an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. “Under a quarter (20.5%) of the producers [...]

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This article was written by Kira Cochrane. “For Vanity Fair’s annual ­Hollywood issue a few years back, photographer Annie Leibovitz created a classic image of a film director at work. Posing beneath a stormy sky, George Clooney stood with his shirt ripped open, trousers tucked rakishly into his boots, arms outstretched – a young Orson Welles [...]

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This article was written by Helen Earnshaw. “Ok so a female filmmaker has never take home the Best Director Oscar but that doesn’t mean that there are no talent filmmakers at work in Hollywood at the moment. On the contrary the women are slowly rising and over the last twelve to eighteen months we have [...]

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“Moviemaking styles may vary between Hollywood and Bollywood, but women working in the Indian commercial film industry have as difficult a time as their counterparts in the United States getting good roles and investment in their films. Director Zoya Akhtar takes a satiric look in Luck by Chance.” Read this article from Sharmeen Gangat. The [...]

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