"You can succeed as a director by casting great actors. This has saved more directors' bacon than the Directors Guild wants you to know." John Badham shares his insights and these 7 Important Insider Tips for students and new filmmakers.

It is, in short, my favorite festival of the year.
Eric Bromberg, DUST

America's longest running genre festival is a filmmaker inspired multiple award winner and industry praised event for emerging and seasoned filmmakers. Spawned at the legendary Orson Welles Cinema, Boston SciFi enters it's 47th iteration as a hybrid event - live & virtual. The live will be at the vintage, renovated Somerville Theatre. Features, shorts and 10 panels mixed in with meet-ups, networking and experiential events. Join us. Submit your film via FilmFreeway. Thank you. Stay safe.

Written By Dustin Morrow

When I'm cutting the work of actors, here's what I'm looking at.

(1.) Eyes
(which are, after all, the windows to the soul).
(2.) Voice control
(the tonality, rhythms in their speech, pauses and timing).
(3.) Hand movements and gesturing
(which are great for continuity cutting because they often provide a little bit of kineticism in otherwise static frames).
(4.) Body language
(perfect for reading subtext into a character’s motivations and intentions).
(5.) Listening and responses to other actors in the scene
(as any good actor will tell you, "Acting is reacting.").

Written By Paolo Dy

A successful shoot is usually made up of 90% very thorough preparation and 10% ingenious last-minute thinking. Part of the preparation phase is the all-important location check, where each department can evaluate a location for its appropriateness and ease of use. Whether you’re shooting a feature film, a documentary, or even a corporate video, you need to consider the following so your location doesn’t give you problems come shoot day...

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