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How a First-Time Filmmaker Directed Michael K. Williams in His Final Role
892 is about the true story of a veteran, a bank, and a bomb. Abi Damaris Corbin knew that to tell it right, she’d need the best actors—even if it was her first feature. The film, whichjust had its...
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How Can You Make Your Second Film Just as Good as the First? This Filmmaker...
Cooper Raiff's Sundance dramedy is an exercise in continued success. I've been a fan of filmmaker Cooper Raiff since SXSW 2020, when we spoke to him about his breakout hit Shithouse. It was an...
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What Lena Dunham Has to Say About Making Her First Film in 12 Years
The Girls filmmaker is back, and her new movie is sexier than ever. Twelve years after her first feature Tiny Furniture, writer/director/actor Lena Dunham is back with her second film, Sharp Stick. It...
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This Filmmaker Spent 3 Years Shooting on a DJI Osmo to Show What It’s Like to...
Do you have the courage to point the camera every day, at everyone around you? Reid Davenport is a filmmaker. He also happens to be a visibly disabled person. What does that mean? As you begin to...
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A Look at the Short-to-Feature Path of Sundance Filmmakers Adamma & Adanne Ebo
It’s satire, but not a mockumentary. It was a short film, but with big risks. Now it’s the feature Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo are not only collaborators, they’re...
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You Can Create Horror Using Color and Light, Just Like This DP
How much of horror is in the cinematography? A lot, which is why you need a strong director of photography to create tension using the camera, color, and light. Master is a film set at a prestigious...
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This Unique Partnership Spotlights the Voices of Women Who Can No Longer Speak
Collaboration makes you stronger, as filmmakers and as people. Paula Eiselt had embedded with her camera in a Hasidic all-woman EMT unit. Tonya Lewis Lee was showrunner on the She’s Gotta Have It...
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What’s the Point of Short Films? Three Sundance Filmmakers Share Their Opinions
Here's why making a short is important for completely different creativereasons than a feature. Three filmmakers with work in the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts program sat down to talk on a...
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How Shooting Super Wide with Super Harsh Light Created the Drought-Stricken...
Alejandro Loayza Grisi is one of the few filmmakers in the small-but-growing Bolivian film scene. An accomplished photographer, Loayza Grisi was shooting a docuseries in the high country of the...
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All the Incredible Advice We Got from This Year's Sundance Creatives
The end of Sundance doesn't mean the end of learning. Let's look at what we can take away from these amazing filmmakers. Sundance 2022 has been as incredible as ever, with the fest pulling off another...
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Could You Cast a Movie Entirely Remotely? This Director Did
The pandemic has created a unique set of problems for filmmakers. Here's how John Patton Ford overcame them. Emily the Criminal was one of my most anticipated Sundance movies this year. I love a crime...
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These Are the Biggest Challenges Filmmakers Faced Making Sundance Films
Your work isn't always under budget, on time, or easy! We all know filmmaking is hard. You run into so many things like budgeting, location issues, casting problems—a pandemic! But challenges can...
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Why Sundance 2022 Is Showing Us the First Real Effects of the Pandemic on...
It’s weird to say, but it hasn’t even been three years since COVID—but it has been three Sundance Film Festivals. In 2020, the Sundance Film Festival happened in person; no one had really heard of the...
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How Do You Make a Living as a Filmmaker? Candid Answers from Directors at...
Babysitter, Uber driver, restaurant server, and comic book clerk are a few of the jobs that filmmakers held to get them to Sundance. It’s an age-old question for filmmakers. How do you make money?...
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What You Can Learn from Amy Poehler’s First Documentary
What happens when one of the greatest comedians of our time makes a documentary about one of the greatest comedians of all time? From Upright Citizens Brigade to Saturday Night Live to Parks and...
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Four Completely Different (and Amazing) Sundance Shorts, and How They Were Made
From filming waist-deep in snow, shooting on 16mm film, or making adorably gross puppets, short films take a lot of work. The Sundance Film Festival received a whopping 10,374 short film submissions...
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Can You Make Features Outside of Hollywood? Here Are Four Case Studies
There’s a new wave of cinema growing across the Americas, from Hawaii, Bolivia, Colorado, to Brazil. To this day, people will tell you that you have to move to Los Angeles or New York to be a real...
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How Do I Get My Film into the Sundance Film Festival?
Advice from Sundance filmmakers and programmers to make it happen. This post was written by Kristine Hamlett and originally appeared on Adobe blog on Jan. 24, 2022. Getting into the Sundance Film...
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Ways Adobe Supports, Celebrates, and Champions All Women and Their Stories
In the words of the great American writer Joan Didion who passed last December, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” This post was written by Ann Lewnes and originally appeared on Adobe blog...
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How This First-Time Filmmaker Got Elite Talent on Her Side
Filmmaker Hannah Bergholm discusses her groundbreaking feature debut, Hatching, which premiered at Sundance 2022, how she found financing for the project, and how it was to work with some of the...
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Take a FREE Horror Writing Master Class with Sundance
Want to learn how to write horror? There's a free class for that. I'm a big fan of Sundance Co//ab and everything they have for young filmmakers. It's so important to educate the next generation....
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Meet the 2022 Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellows
Learn about the projects these exciting new voices are working on. This post was written by Adobe Communications Team and originally appeared on Adobe blog on June 21, 2022. In the U.S., women make up...
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Indie Female Directors Were Failed by the Film Festival Circuit
A new study finds that multiple film festivals failed to highlight female directors and filmmakers. The indie filmmaking world has been male-dominated and continues to be so. Female filmmakers have...
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How Did Tom Cruise Help Todd Field Rescue His Movie From Harvey Weinstein?
Harvey Weinstein was notorious for meddling with good movies. But Tom Cruise knew a way to stop him. Imagine you are helming your first motion picture. You get all the way to Sundance, and people love...
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10 Directorial Debuts from Sundance 2023 We Are Looking Forward To
Many great movies are debuting at Sundance this year, but these first-time directors just have something about them. Sundance kicks off later this week, and the film festival has a film lineup that is...
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Does Sundance Matter Anymore?
Sundance is finally back in-person, but why does this year feel different? After two long years of sitting at home and watching movies on our laptops, one of the most influential and exciting film...
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Can Sundance Save the Indie Film Industry?
Sundance is back in Park City. Is this the jolt the industry needs? Hey, have you noticed the past couple of years have been kind of tough for the film industry? The pandemic shook everything...
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'Kim’s Video' Is a Love Letter to Physical Media and a Long-Lost Video...
Finding inspiration during production can be intimidating, but Ashley Sabin and David Redmon tell you how to find the greatness in those in-between moments. In an era where streaming is king, the...
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These Sundance Filmmakers Started on YouTube—Here's Their Advice
Two brothers who started making online content now have a feature at Sundance. Here's how they did it. The great thing about horror is its flexibility and the way it so easily melds with other genres...
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The Biggest Challenges Sundance Filmmakers Faced (And How They Tackled Them)
Take notes from these filmmakers. Sundance is often the pinnacle of indie film—we all have stories of submitting to the fest, waiting to hear back, hoping to get in. Regardless of whether we've gotten...
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How 'Iron Butterflies' Writer/Director Shines a Light on the Truth of MH17...
Some stories must be told on an international stage. Documentaries are crafted in a way that forces the audience to examine a situation through the lens of the director. At Sundance, these stories are...
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How 'Bad Press' Filmmakers Captured the Blueprint for a Revolution
These first-time filmmakers follow the journey of regaining free press in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Writing is often a privilege that we often forget has power. While many of us can write freely...
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NFS Is Live from Sundance! Plus, Powderkeg Media’s Head of Development
No Film School is podcasting from Sundance Film Festival! On today’s episode, No Film School founder Ryan Koo, writer Alyssa Miller, and podcast co-host GG Hawkins unpack the first part of the...
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The Best Advice from This Year's Sundance Filmmakers
A new class of Sundance filmmakers gives us their best tips! Besides being an amazing way to start the year with new and exciting films, Sundance Film Festival is always an amazing opportunity for...
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Netflix Pays $20 Million for 'Fair Play' at Sundance
The talk of the festival just sold to Netflix. Every year, a big title sells coming out of Sundance and immediately gets awards buzz. This year, Netflix made the priciest purchase. They shelled out...
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How "Deleting Your Darlings" Brought This Filipino Director’s Nightmare to Life
Director Kenneth Dagatan brings his nightmare-fueled fairytale to Sundance. This is how he did it alongside actress Jasmine Curtis-Smith. I have a deep fondness for fairytales. These stories are often...
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Brandon Cronenberg Tells Us How He Horrified Sundance with 'Infinity Pool'
Horror director Brandon Cronenberg tells us secrets of his vacation nightmare, Infinity Pool. Whew. How to discuss writer/director Brandon Cronenberg's latest feature Infinity Pool? The film, which...
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“Don’t Follow the Rules, Rewrite the Rules”—Sundance Director Alison O'Daniel...
"These are the captions I have always dreamed of." This week we spoke with Alison O’Daniel, director of The Tuba Thieves,which premiered at Sundance. O’Daniel is a filmmaker and visual artist. Her...
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How D. Smith Nailed Her Visually Cool Sundance Debut—with No Budget
This first-time filmmaker creates an empathic and visually stunning look at Black trans sex workers for her Sundance debut. Few documentaries are as cool and hyper-stylized as D. Smith’s filmmaking...
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How Vuk Lungulov-Klotz Made One of Sundance's Best Dramas with a Small Crew...
Vuk Lungulov-Klotz takes audiences through a whirlwind day-in-the-life story of a trans character in this debut feature. You should always endeavor to put your character through the wringer. That's...
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Sundance 2023 Announces the Winners of This Year's Fest
Was your favorite Sundance 2023 film recognized by the judges, the critics, and the fans? Let's find out... The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023. Jurors...
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You Can Navigate Indie Intimacy Scenes with Help from the 'When It Melts'...
This filmmaker finds a way to craft a brilliantly intimate film that lingers with you long after your first watch. Sundance is a breeding ground for emotionally stunning films like Veerle Baetens’s...
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How Adobe Is Changing the Future of Filmmaking at Sundance 2023
Adobe’s Michael Cioni tells us about how the cloud runs Sundance. While we might not be able to put our finger exactly on it, there’s something a bit different about this year’s Sundance Film...
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Check Out All of the Acquired Films from Sundance 2023
Was this a good year for acquisitions at Sundance? Sundance is one of the biggest and best indie film festivals for several reasons, but one of the most exciting reasons is the opportunity to have...
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For These DPs, Connecting with Story and Storytellers Prevents Burnout
In today’s episode, we host a roundtable discussion with cinematographers of four different Sundance films. We chat about problem-solving on set, collaborating with directors, creative lighting...
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Editors and Post-Sound Have a Crush on Each Other('s Work)
Continuing our Sundance coverage in episode 608 of the No Film School podcast, we sat down with editors and sound teams from films premiering at the festival. In addition to unpacking post-production....
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Women Write Now Fellows Dish on the Art of Comedy
Hours before their Sundance premieres, we spoke with the writing fellows of Women Write Now, Hartbeat’s annual comedic screenwriting fellowship for Black women in partnership with the Sundance...
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SXSW Preview: Should You Produce Your Festival Experience? Plus Interview...
If you bring your full self to a festival, to a film, to any project, and help others shine in the process, you will find your place in this industry. In this episode, GG Hawkins speaks with director,...
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From Sundance to SXSW: "Fancy Dance" Director Erica Tremblay and Co-Writer...
In this episode, No Film School’s GG Hawkins speaks with director Erica Tremblay and co-writer Miciana Alise about the film, Fancy Dance. They discuss what their writing collaboration looked like and...
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