The Director’s Notebook with Stacey Muhammad
Stacey MuhammadWhere the sacred calling of story meets the exacting discipline of the frame
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THE MORE YOU TALK, THE WORSE IT GETS
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to work with a group of talented emerging filmmakers through the New Orleans Film Festival Director’s Lab. These were incredibly thoughtful young directors, many of them in the early stages of finding...
THE ARCHITECTURE OF A GREAT PERFORMANCE
One of the questions I’m asked most often by emerging directors is deceptively simple:
How do you get a great performance from an actor?
It is a question that follows directors at every stage of their journey, from film school clas...
SOME STORIES REQUIRE BECOMING THE PERSON CAPABLE OF TELLING THEM
There are films that live in you long after you have seen them, and Get Out is one of those films for me. I have watched it so many times that it often plays in a continuous loop at home, and I never tire of it because it operates on every...
THE DIRECTOR'S NOTEBOOK RECOMMENDS
(Spoilers ahead. Not just for this film, but for many of the works discussed throughout this series.)
I want to say something before getting into this series.
I’m not writing these pieces from the position of someone who believes they hav...
THE DIRECTOR'S NOTEBOOK RECOMMENDS
One of the questions I get asked most often is: “What should I be watching?”
The truth is, I watch everything. Films. Television. Music videos. Experimental shorts. Performances. Old cinema. New cinema. Things that are technically brillian...
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