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Drooling Towards Bethlehem: Taking Risks in Making Art

Multihyphenate Eleanore Pienta, who can currently be seen in the thriller Soft & Quiet, on the importance pushing oneself creatively.

November 7, 2022

How Leaving the Life I Knew Saved Me

An Tran, director of the new documentary For Tomorrow, on how relocating to Vietnam turned out to be exactly the change she needed.

November 4, 2022

Exclusive Book Excerpt: From Lady Director, Joyce Chopra on Living the Bohemian Life in Paris

In an extract from pioneering filmmaker Joyce Chopra's memoir Lady Director, she recalls her exhilarating time in the City of Lights.

November 3, 2022

Reaching a Place of Vulnerability and Authenticity

Documentary director Ricki Stern, whose new film A Radical Life is now streaming on discovery+, on getting to the core of her subjects.

November 1, 2022

How a Brush With Death Made Me an Even Bigger Horror Fan

Kimberley Elizabeth, one of the directors of the new horror anthology movie Sinphony, on her origin story as a genre filmmaker.

October 27, 2022

Stories for Indigestion

Writer-director Rodrigo García, whose new film Raymond & Ray is now on Apple TV+, goes back to the very roots of storytelling.

October 25, 2022

Three Great Things: Flying Lotus

The Grammy-winning musician turned filmmaker, who is one of the directors of the new horror film V/H/S/99, on what gives his life meaning.

October 24, 2022

For Michael

On the anniversary of their first date, multi-hyphenate Ryan Spahn looks back on 14 years with his partner, actor Michael Urie.

October 20, 2022

Three Great Things: Alexis Knapp

The actress, who can currently be seen in the horror movie The Accursed, on some of the spiritual beacons that guide her in life.

October 19, 2022

From Teen to Parent and Back Again

Acid Test writer-director Jenny Waldo reflects on making a personal coming-of-age movie while a mother to teenage kids.

October 17, 2022

Opa + Me

Producer Karina Manashil weaves together her family history and her deep love of the nature documentary series Kingdom of the Apes.

October 13, 2022

I Made a Movie to Save My Marriage and Then I Got Divorced

Actor-writer-producer Michael Tennant shares the complex personal backstory to his new movie, Pretty Problems.

October 12, 2022