Manon Gaurin’s “Monsters” has taken the top prize for a French film at the the PNB Paribas Mobile Film Festival. The French filmmaker’s one-minute movie is an illustrated poem on nocturnal terrors, inspired by Nikita Gill’s writings. Launched in 2005, the Mobile Film Festival has been detecting and promoting new talents through a competition with simple rules: 1 mobile…
read more →Great actors are masters of nonverbal acting, which is a skill that can enable even inexperienced performers to astonish audiences.
read more →Imagination is usually seen as something positive. But can there be too much of a good thing? That’s the question Australian filmmaker Melissa Brattoni explores in her prize-winning film “In My Mind.” As she did in “Meshes of an Autumn Afternoon,” the filmmaker plays the starring role, which earned her a “Best Actress” nomination at the…
read more →Regg Skwarko’s “Steam” immediately brings to mind Psycho’s shower scene. But—spoiler alert—there is a terrific twist. The film is one of the finalists in the 2017 Cinephone Film Fest. Anything else we might say about it would ruin your viewing experience, so instead, let’s talk about the art of homage. In the world of film…
read more →One secret to producing a modestly budgeted movie is to stage all the action in a single location. Doing so not only saves resources but can add to a drama’s intensity.
read more →Elliott Maguire is a Manchester-based filmmaker who has just completed “The Ferryman,” a horror feature shot on an iPhone 7. In the following interview, he tells what led him into the often-scary world of no-budget filmmaking. MMM: How did you get into filmmaking? MAGUIRE: I’d love to give the typical “shooting movies as a child…
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