If We Can, So Can You: How We Co-Direct Feature Films as a Married Couple and Stay Married
When we say, “We are married and we direct films together,” the first question most people ask is, “How do you do it?” followed by,...
“Breathing Paintings”: How Liyana’s Co-Directors and Animator Honed the Style of their Mixed Media Doc
In Liyana, five talented young storytellers in Swaziland collaborate to create a fictional hero’s journey. The story they write is about a young girl named...
Frame of Mind: Watch How Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower Followed Multiple Points of Action to Shoot a Protest (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
An Artist Archaeologist’s Palette: Ghostly, Decaying Film Stock is Bill Morrison’s Raw Found-Footage Doc Material
As of 2016, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which inducts 25 new titles each year “showcasing the range and diversity of...
Needles In the Film Stock: How the Co-Directors of Letters From Baghdad Scored Rare Archival Footage For Their Doc
When we started making Letters from Baghdad, about the intrepid British explorer, archaeologist and political powerhouse Gertrude Bell (also known as the female Lawrence of...
Life After Provocation: Burden Documentarians Tim Marrinan and Richard Dewey on Meeting the Real Chris Burden
As if on a pilgrimage, scores of tourists and, on occasion, locals have taken advantage of a now-indispensable photo-op: the Urban Light sculpture in front...
How They Did It: DP Daniel Levin Spent a Year Embedded with the FBI For the Series Inside the FBI: New York
We circle an abandoned building in a giant field. I have a seat belt on, but the door is wide open and I cannot seem...
All Under One Roof Raving: How Michal Marczak Made All These Sleepless Nights With 3-D-Printed Gear and ADR
The essential listlessness of youth: So many have tried to capture that on camera, though every film that does so successfully makes it feel like...
Feast for the Eyes: In Search of Israeli Cuisine Dices Culinary Cinema’s Hosting Clichés
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Depending on how you count, Israel has some 150 cultures...
Who Does Native American Culture Belong To?: Mat Hames Poses the Question in Documentary What Was Ours
Mat Hames is a filmmaker who is more interested in raising questions than giving answers. That much is clear from the titles of his films,...
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The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada 2017: Film Programs to Shape You Into the Next Moviemaking All-Star
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and personal relationships that flourish in an academic setting are...
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What’s in Your Kit? The Underwater Gear Used in Jeff Orlowski’s Gorgeous Environmental Doc Chasing Coral
How do you show irrefutable proof that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change? Director Jeff Orlowski’s feature Chasing Coral follows an impassioned team of...
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Of Bad Apes and Twisted Revenge: Matt Reeves, Steve Zahn, Weta Digital and Others on War for the Planet of the Apes
Actor Steve Zahn—known for his roles in That Thing You Do, Riding in Cars With Boys, and Dallas Buyers Club—once stumbled onto an online post about his role in...