Jaume Collet-Serra is a Barcelona-born director whose films increasingly testify to a deft eye for action, ever since his 2005…
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation…
Not far removed from the philosophical and ethical inquiries that 19th century literary masters like Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoyevsky debated…
Themes that inspire Middle Eastern film also emerge in the making of it. To understand the filming of religious sites…
When I turned in the feature script I had written and planned to star and direct, I think a few people…
Intrinsically shaped by multiculturalism, Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming has amassed a body of work grounded in her curiosity to…
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations about movies directed by Harrison Friend, Samuel Stevenson, David Chontos,…
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with directors John Farmanesh-Bocca, Dawn Fields, Marshall Allman, Nico Raineau,…
It’s amazing to me that I not only made a feature film, but that it’s actually going to be in…
My first feature, Moko Jumbie, is a Gothic Caribbean love story set in rural Trinidad. Its protagonist is Asha, a young girl…
Broadway producer Amanda Lipitz had been making shorts about first-generation college students and girls’ education for years when the perfect…
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and…
When we say, “We are married and we direct films together,” the first question most people ask is, “How do…
When you're working your way into the heart of our industry, climbing that ladder to success, certain names and titles…
In Grandma, Lily Tomlin does not play your typical grandma. She doesn’t bake cookies or assume a beatific and benign smile…
Collaborating with your crew is your greatest strength. As a confident movie-maker, don’t hesitate to ask your film crew for…
If you want to avoid mutiny on your set, you probably shouldn’t be reading this. That’s because the best way…
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with directors Nick Everhart, John Bickerstaff, Adriano Valentini,…
No doubt about it: “Apatowian” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as “Hitchcockian.” Or “Hawksian.” Or even “Chaplinesque.”…
With his latest feature, Mommy, Xavier Dolan has rid himself of pretense. “I come from a very mainstream background,” the…
When Josef Wladyka, director of Manos Sucias, arrived in Buenaventura, Colombia to shoot his feature about that country's notorious drug…
Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature,…
As Josh Ralske writes in his forthcoming MovieMaker interview... "I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I…
This is the second installment in MovieMaker's ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. This time we…