Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who'd made fortunes in Silicon Valley, founded a company…
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When I talk to filmmakers, way too often I have a version of the following conversation: Sam Mestman (MM): What’s…
My name is Sam Mestman, and I run a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto called We Make Movies.…
My girlfriend and I managed to attend eight films at AFI this year over the course of the seven-day festival:…
In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a generation of Afrikaners increasingly…
With our world’s amazing technology making spectacular cameras small, cheap and ubiquitous, new types of moviemaking (and, by extension, moviemakers)…
When moviemaker Jennifer Fox (“Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman”) completed her latest project—the documentary My Reincarnation, about a Tibetan…
Director Dan Beers' moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which premiered at Sundance in…
From Cannes to Hollywood, Sacha Baron Cohen is back in the news this week as his latest mash-up of humor…