Everyone loves drama. Better yet -- controversy! Cinema, historically, has shown an appetite for, and an ability to, conjure cultural blasphemy. In that spirit, a major champion of the controversial…
In the era of Kickstarter, Broad City, and Dear White People, independent filmmakers are increasingly able to find their foothold not through traditional means, but through crowdsourcing and the production…
The city of Austin, Texas is teeming with creative, smart people this week as South By Southwest gets into full swing. Musicians, artists, filmmakers, scientists, and educators are coming together…
Dear Hollywood, What are you doing? Why are you remaking so many films? Don't you have any original ideas? Don't get me wrong -- I love me some retelling and…
The Oscars are right around the corner! I’ve been a huge movie fan since I was a kid. Some of my favorite movies were the ones that had the most…
Valentine’s Day, shmalentine’s Day. For some, the only good thing about this day is that it marks the end of those incessant diamond commercials. If you’re not in love or…
Working on an indie film is so exciting and so fulfilling, who needs to get paid, right? Right? Anyone? Not exactly. As a producer of many low-to-no-budget short films, I…
Dear White People creator Justin Simien told CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis something that a lot of creative entrepreneurs know to be true: That a lot of times, the thing you…
Transformation is a huge concept to try to get your head around, and so using films as the jumping off point for your transformative scheming can be an excellent place…
Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham and Jean-Michel Basquiat have one thing in common: They were recognized for their talent at an impressively young age. Tavi was just 12 when her blog,…
