One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. Though…
“Clothes make the man.” — Mark Twain When director Michael Curtis Johnson and I decided to make Hunky Dory, we…
Close your eyes and concentrate on the sounds around you: the humming of the refrigerator, footsteps from the floor above,…
"And that's really the thing, can you make people emotional, make people feel something, maybe even have tears... and get…
This is a recollection of a certain Thursday in May of 2014. The Chemical Cut crew and I, the DP,…
"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” It sounds almost defeatist the first time you hear it, but this…
When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was getting into. Actually, I’m…
Director's Cut, Adam Rifkin and Penn Jillette's warped comedy about obsession and moviemaking, opened the 22nd Slamdance Film Festival on…
Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late '80s…
On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life. Farming was a topic I…
It takes a braver-than-usual moviemaker to chronicle how an incurable disease has ravaged generations of his family—much less put his…
ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club, the recently minted collaboration between Arclight Cinemas and the Slamdance Film Festival, today announced their…