Movie Lovers We Love

Movie Lovers We Love: Chitra Neogy Teaches "Film as a Transformative Process"

Most students walk away from a typical film courses with a better knowledge of the medium’s history and an impressive vocabulary. However such a standard, superficial approach to cinema can leave the viewer unsatisfied, missing out on the rich, powerful qualities of the art form. Professor and filmm...

Movie Lovers We Love: Nick Dawson Unleashes the Clues to IFP & Filmmaker Magazine's Secret Film Club Screenings

A few months after film critic Aaron Hillis left his post as the curator of the microcinema in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, reRun, IFP and Filmmaker Magazine have taken his place as the space's programmers. 

Movie Lovers We Love: MIT's Open Doc Lab Provides the Research Arm to the Future of Documentary Storytelling

"We’re at a moment where as a culture we are keenly aware of the technology underlying storytelling because the technology is changing so quickly," explains Sarah Wolozin about the Open Doc Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The web and other emerging technologies have revolutionized how we ex...

Movie Lovers We Love: Jessica Edwards Asks Doc Legends for Advice in New Book

For several years, Jessica Edwards was a publicist in the indie film world; a year and a half ago, she left the world of publicity and had a kid.  Since then, she's been working on a book of advice from leading documentary filmmakers called "Tell Me Something: Documentary Filmmakers."

Movie Lovers We Love: Gregory Zinman Is an Authoritative Expert on Handmade Cinema

Movie Lovers We Love: Cinefamily Executive Director Hadrian Belove Brings Unexpected Films to LA

The brothers Dan and Sammy Harkham joined Hadrian Belove to open Los Angeles' Cinefamily in 2007, one of the most exciting retrospective venues in the country's second biggest city. The city that's the home of Hollywood isn't always seen as the most friendly to indies and other ...

The 34 Movie Lovers We Love of 2012 That You Need to Love Too

This year at Indiewire, we decided we had gone far too long without giving proper due to the people -- aside from filmmakers -- who help us feed our cinephilia. In our new column Movie Lovers We Love, we profiled many of the most exciting programmers, writers, entrepreneurs and designers that work i...

Movie Lovers We Love: Joey Shanks Shows Filmmakers How to Do Special Effects in Their Garage

Joey Shanks has teamed up with the people at PBS Digital Studios to produce a weekly series that explains how to produce DIY special effects for low-budget productions.  His YouTube channel Shanks FX has explained how to create planets with dry ice bubbles and how to make stop-motion animations...

Movie Lovers We Love: Dennis Doros is Re-Releasing Film History, From 'Killer of Sheep' to 'Portrait of Jason'

For some time now, Milestone Films president Dennis Doros has been interested in bringing back films lost to history that explore the borders between fact and fiction.