Many of Liz Garbus’ documentaries—such as 2011’s Bobby Fischer Against the World and 2015’s What Happened,...

When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was...

The beauty of DIY is that you get to dream the biggest dreams you can. The...

Few other cities in modern times defy easy narrative as Los Angeles does. Intoxicating and infuriating...

We were more than eight months into a nine-month edit and I still couldn’t get the...

I served as producer, director and editor for my feature documentary The Russian Woodpecker, but by...

Life in a Walk is football coach-turned-filmmaker Yogi Roth’s voyage to understand his personal hero—his father,...

I will start out by saying that no laws were broken by the film crew in...

Glena, Allan Luebke’s directorial debut, follows 30-something single-mother-turned-cage-fighter Glena Avila, who entered the professional world of...

In MovieMaker‘s Summer 2015 issue, critic Sam Adams interviewed Joshua Oppenheimer and offered a sage contemplation...

Over the years, many filmmakers have redefined documentary. Few, however, have composed a new vocabulary for...

In September of 2014, filmmaker Tan Pin Pin found herself at the center of an intense...

On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life. Farming...

Cartel Land is about vigilantes on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who are combating a common...

Amy, the beautifully detailed and heartbreaking documentary about singer-songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse, who died four years...

On a naked corner in the American South, a young black girl boosts herself up on...

It takes a braver-than-usual moviemaker to chronicle how an incurable disease has ravaged generations of his...

Saving Mes Aynak is a film I believed in so deeply I repeatedly risked my life to...

Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the...

Nick Broomfield’s new documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, tells a shocking and lurid story. Lonnie...

Brett Morgen’s intro at South by Southwest for his new film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,...

By now, you’ve probably heard of Unlocking the Truth, a heavy-metal band made up of three...

Air Sex: The Movie is a documentary about a live comedy show that has become a...

“If there’s anything else in life that you can do and be happy with, go do...