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Like many directors, I shot a “proof of concept” in order to get our movie XOXO made. But ours needed…
We have somehow succeeded in making Swiss Army Man, that Daniel Radcliffe-Paul Dano-farting corpse movie you might have heard about.
Early in the process of research for Men Go to Battle, my co-writer and producer Kate Lyn Sheil and I…
Aside from being a first-person shooter, Pandemic was extremely ambitious from a logistical perspective, taking place in a quarantined New…
How the makers of risqué indie Wild in Blue used “terrorist marketing” to create a media storm—and fund their next…
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…
About Alex's Jesse Zwick talks about being a first-time director, finding the right ensemble cast, and coordinating preproduction in just…
Seattle native Ian Ebright set out to make a short film that captured the Arabic experience under drone attacks. He…
Writer Daniel Ponickly and Director Zoe Quist danced with death shooting Raw Cut in Yellowstone and battled Alaska’s mosquitoes shooting…
In Code Black, Ryan McGarry wanted his audience to be fully immersed in the chaos of an inner-city emergency department…
How the cinematographer of dystopian thriller The Rover harnessed the punishing heat and scarred landscape of the Australian outback.
Director Jeremy Saulnier retraces his path to winning the Indie Film Lotto with his sleek bullet of a revenge flick,…
Hank and Asha is an unconventional romance that unfolds subjectively through the video letters that the two main characters self-record…
Los Aldeanos is an underground rap duo based in Havana whose lyrics challenge the Cuban dictatorship. Jesse Acevedo documents their…
When I first started writing the script for My Brother the Devil, it was just after the 7/7 tube bombings…
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