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Indie Web Channel Brings Major-Published Book To Life: Geek & Sundry Attempts The Previously Impossible (Article/News)

Posted by on Jan 9, 2015 in Articles, Editorials, Featured, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News |

If you've read Rachel Caine's interesting and slow-burn developing series, The Morganville Vampires, you probably never thought it could be brought to anything other than network TV. However, Indie innovators Geek & Sundry, after launching other original shows like Spellslingers, TableTop, and the Guild, decided to help bring the successfully Kickstarted campaign for a series to their...

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The Right Widget: Great Last-Minute Gift Ideas For the MicroFilmmaker or Indie Creative in your Life (Article)

Posted by on Dec 19, 2014 in Articles, Editorials, Featured, Reviews, Tips |

Throughout the year, we have a chance to test out different tools and items from some different manufacturers and creative, many of which we’re very impressed by. Because of a variety of reasons, not everything can be given a full review here at MFM, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t extremely useful and that they don’t deserve to be highlighted for our readers. With that in mind...

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The Same Name: Critical Remakes & Romanticized Criticism (Editorial)

Posted by on Dec 5, 2014 in Articles, Editorials, Featured |

One thing I try to do at MFM is to ask questions that make people think. I don't try to present the unpopular perspective, but, when I have one, I don't shy away from sharing it.

One of the worst things for filmmakers who do direct "name" remakes is the romantic attachments that film reviewers so often have to the source material. (I say name remakes because some remakes change the name...

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Disney, Star Wars, & Rian Johnson: What We Can Learn from Star Wars Episode VIII (Editorial)

Posted by on Jun 20, 2014 in Articles, Editorials, Featured, Industry, News | 0 comments

The fact that Disney/LucasArts is in the process of making an offer to an Indie writer/director that I love to continue the main Star Wars saga is almost unprecedented! The news that Rian Johnson would replace JJ Abrams for Star Wars VIII, which we’re just hearing today, is the biggest leap we’ve seen from Disney to date. (The fact that Johnson’s IMDB page has been updated with these facts...)

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State of filmmaking and Indie content creation: 2014 (Editorial)

Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 in Editorials, Featured | 0 comments

At the beginning of the year, I was challenged by one of our readers to update my commentary on the 2012 state of the industry in a new editorial that was fitting for 2014. Although this should have been a pretty simple thing for someone like me to do, I found that I spent the first three months of this year trying to really wrap my head around everything that’s been going on that’s been intriguing me, confusing me, and leave me feeling strangely more excited about the future than I have been in awhile.

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