Like many directors, I shot a proof of concept in order to get our movie XOXO made. But ours needed…
Winter of 2011, my writing and directing partner, Daniel Kwan (the other half of Daniels, the name we go by…
Early in the process of research for Men Go to Battle, my co-writer and producer Kate Lyn Sheil and I…
Growing up a fan of first-person shooter video games, I'd always been fascinated by the concept of melding the single-character…
“A man once said there is no such thing as a film. The film does not exist; all that exists…
Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature,…
A Most Violent Year, director J.C. Chandor's third feature after Margin Call (2011) and All is Lost (2013), packs an…
Writer-director Ben Woodiwiss breaks down the intricately crafted opening sequence of his feature debut, the psychological thriller Benny Loves Killing.…
Jallo Faber, DP of Norwegian deep-sea diving thriller Pioneer, plumbs the depths of underwater cinematography in this comprehensive look behind…
In her documentary Kidnapped for Christ, Kate Logan set out with the innocuous plan to film the lives of American…
David Jung, writer-director of found-footage horror feature The Possession of Michael King, explains how he created the illusion of demonic…
Director Mike Cahill knows how to make low-budget movies feel expensive. In this "How They Did It," the purveyor of…
Two years of working on a movie—three weeks to prep it. How Jesse Zwick found himself making his directorial debut,…
Seattle native Ian Ebright set out to make "From the Sky," a short film that captured life in the Middle…
Writer Daniel Ponickly and director Zoe Quist have had an action-packed year, with not one but two movies opening this…
If you had rare access to one of the most intense medical environments in the world, how would you translate…
Hot off the press, from our Summer 2014 issue: How Natasha Braier, the cinematographer of the dystopian thriller The Rover,…
Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My initial attempts to diminish…
Hank and Asha is an epistolary film about a filmmaker in New York and an admirer in Prague, who correspond solely…
Los Aldeanos is an underground rap duo based in Havana whose lyrics challenge the status quo of Cuba's dictatorship. Filmmaker…
All film is in some way political—whether you like it or not. It's good to be conscious of that as…
In early 2011, my longtime friend and collaborator, director Ishai Setton, told me about a (very) low-budget feature he was…
After being in the film business for more than 18 years, the question we’re most often asked by reporters and…