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Joaquin Phoenix and Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is no career footnote—it's the next…
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl and The Headless Woman, Lucrecia…
Star Asa Butterfield spent three weeks learning to play bass to lend a lived-in sonic authenticity to director Peter Livolsi's…
When Cordula Kablitz-Post couldn't shoot her dream locations, she shot her actors against historical postcards, which created a heightened, poetic…
"Only what one cares about will survive," and other insight Jonas Mekas has gleaned from six decades of shooting without…
Mark Schimmel, director of the upcoming short "Kill the Light," diagrams his process for successfully shooting a 22-minute film in…
Jaume Collet-Serra, seasoned action helmer and director of The Commuter, shares how to fuse action with character development, simplify your…
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” explains Scott Cooper, the director of possibly the most…
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev discusses the link between the technical craftsmanship which rendered Loveless and the humanistic notions that drive it.
"Something will always come between an Arab and his highest dreams," says writer/director/star Shady Srour about shooting biblical sites for…
First-time writer-director and star Noël Wells explains how she embraced the "thrill of the unknown" to shoot her low-budget indie…
Fleming's debut animated feature Window Horses is a delicately crafted and heartwarming ode to borderless connections between people via creativity.
This new installment of our NewFilmmakers LA interview series features conversations about films directed by Anisha Adusumilli, Christopher Scott, and more.
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with directors Gonzalo Ladines, Dawn Fields, and Marshall…
A popular impression is that people with schizophrenia can’t live normal, full lives and function day-to-day. I’m proof that you…
Moko Jumbie is the Gothic Caribbean love story of Asha, a young girl searching for her roots in Trinidad, and…
Amanda Lipitz had been making shorts about first-generation college students and girls’ education when the opportunity for Step fell into…
Out of the hundreds of bachelors and masters programs in the U.S. and Canada, we’ve chosen 40 schools that best…
When we say, “We are married and we direct films together,” the first question most people ask is, “How do…
The way you shed your intimidation of anyone, much less a name actor, is by building a relationship with them.…
Paul Weitz talks about Grandma and what inspired him to be a feminist moviemaker.
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,…