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Every January the slopes of Park City, Utah, fill with posh skiers, and the streets, bars, and screening rooms fill with Hollywood’s top actors, producers, and directors. Vanity Fair West Coast senior editor Krista Smith sat down to talk with the stars of the Sundance Film Festival, and learned all about the movies that will thrill us in 2014. Via GoIntoTheStory

Composer John Powell explains what he looks for when he scores a scene and why the powerful emotions of DreamWorks Animation’s summer hit made his job especially difficult — and exhausting.

Mythbuster Adam Savage at WIRED by Design, 2014. Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA, explains his passion for props.

Jonathan Keogh created this supercut of Steven Jay Schneider’s famous book with an additional 200 or so extra titles.

Indie Film Nation Video Podcast #060: Miguel Nuñez (writer/director) of Levanta Muertos (Mexico), dramatic feature film.  Levant Muertos tells the story of Ivan, a young coroner, performs his deadly routine in the hottest city in Mexico. He goes to a point of no return thanks to his wild girlfriend Rosa and his pig ‘Homie’.

On this episode, Nina Hatchwell interviews Miguel Nuñez about his new feature film during the film’s premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, United Kingdom.

Find out more about Levanta Muertos visit the official website, facebook and Twitter

This episode was shoot / edited by Peter Miranda (twitter, facebook, vimeo and instagram) from Capture Four with guest host, Nina Hatchwell (twitter, facebook, youtube and imdb).

Indie Film Nation Video Podcast #060: Miguel Nuñez (writer/director) of Levanta Muertos (Mexico), dramatic feature film. Levant Muertos tells the story of Ivan, a young coroner, performs his deadly routine in the hottest city in Mexico. He goes to a point of no return thanks to his wild girlfriend Rosa and his pig ‘Homie’.

On this episode, Nina Hatchwell interviews Miguel Nuñez about his new feature film during the film’s premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, United Kingdom.

Find out more about Levanta Muertos visit the official website, facebook and Twitter

This episode was shoot / edited by Peter Miranda (twitter, facebook, vimeo and instagram) from Capture Four with guest host, Nina Hatchwell (twitter, facebook, youtube and imdb).

Miniature models were used extensively for the original Star Wars (as well as the prequel trilogy). Check out this massive collection and the incredible amount of detail that went into the production:

Click here to see all the photos

Check out this half hour documentary of Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”

Ethan Levinskas explores the body of work from director Darren Aronofsky.

Committing oneself to an ideal is a respectable goal. However, the protagonists of Darren Aronofsky’s films would benefit from keeping everything in moderation. As an emerging auteur, Aronofsky is still fairly young, but over the past two decades, he has proven himself as a director with consistent vision and mettle.

His stories are warning tales of obsession, of how becoming addicted to a goal can enslave a person just as easily as it can help them attain what they want. This makes Aronofsky’s films very American in their criticism of our capitalist dreams.

Although the films themselves are not political, Aronofsky takes direct influence from Hubert Selby, Jr., the author who wrote Requiem for a Dream, who describes the “American Dream,” as amorphous and unattainable. In empathizing with characters whose goals consume them, Aronofsky’s tales become relatable to the American working class.

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Ryan Gielen shares some low budget tips for directing with little space or money.Gielen

Over the past few years I’ve contributed articles focused on my experience independently promoting and distributing my previous two features, The Graduates and Turtle Hill, Brooklyn. But before an indie filmmaker can distribute their film, they have to shoot it, and one of the biggest challenges on features of any size is the cost of creativity — the demands of production can make it extremely challenging to take the time to visually articulate moments, scenes, sequences and themes the way you dreamed up in pre-production.

On my most recent feature, Drinking Games, we faced this challenge constantly — we made the suspense-filled drama for under $100,000 in twelve days, on location inside a real dormitory. My cinematographer Andrew “Tank” Rivara had to light tiny rooms for the RED, while the budget and the clock were working against us from the beginning! While touring the film at various colleges and film schools prior to our digital release, the audience reaction was incredibly positive, and two big questions kept popping up:

How did we create a film look on a low budget?

Was it hard to film an entire feature in such a small space?

Given the challenges we faced, the questions we received, and our success (I admit, I’m biased) in making the film work, I decided to put together a series of five to ten-minute videos focusing on the scenes that best highlighted our use of the limited tools we did have — a jib, a dolly, the RED, good lenses and creativity — to help those who may face the same challenges.

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