RENAISSANCE DISNEY: We Rewatched Aladdin and It Made Us Better Filmmakers
The term “Renaissance” has been used by fans to describe the awakening and reinvention that brought public and critical interest to Disney Feature Animation in the 1990s, starting with The Little Mermaid (1989) and ending with Tarzan (1999). But it wasn’t just the...
WIDE VARIETY: The Many Different Uses of the Underappreciated Wide Shot
Shot selection can be one of the director’s best tools for communicating with an audience. It allows her to control what they see (or do not see) and manipulate the emotional impact of the story. And one of the most important and underappreciated shots in the...
WILL THIS FILM FEST CHANGE YOUR LIFE?: 5 Festival Networking Tips
So, you’re film is playing at a film festival. Congratulations! We have a couple films on the festival circuit ourselves. The Lunacy films Plus One and The Short History of the Long Road are currently entertaining audiences in New York, Los Angeles, and...
QUALITY WINS THE DAY: Ross Putman Talks About Championing New Voices
About Ross Putman After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Ross Putman started his career as a development executive before transitioning to independent film production. The company he co-founded, PSH Collective, went on to produce the Sundance...
VALUABLE MISTAKES: 5 Lessons We’ve Learned the Hard Way
You know the usual rookie errors: white walls, bad sound, haphazard composition, etc. But there are many more mistakes that are worth learning from. Here are five mistakes we’ve made, and the lessons we took from them! 1. Careless Collaborations Forget the director...