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WeTalk — Docs in a New Spotlight

Ondi Timoner and her filmmaker panelists talk the art of documentary filmmaking at the 2019 Sidewalk Film Festival.

October 29, 2019

The New American Family

Director Beth Aala on the surprising relationship that helped shape her new documentary, Made in Boise.

October 28, 2019

Dry Rot: The Hidden Secrets Within Girl on the Third Floor

Producer-turned-director Travis Stevens on how a real haunted house inspired his new horror movie about toxic masculinity.

October 25, 2019

How Special Education Led Me to a Career in Filmmaking

Writer-director David Midell outlines how his past work as a teacher and therapist drew him to make The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain.

October 24, 2019

“Art Doesn’t Save the World or Save Anybody”: An Excerpt From Luc Dardenne’s Diaries

From the new Dardenne brothers book On the Back of Our Images, Vol. 1, get a glimpse into the mind of one half of the fraternal filmmaking duo.

October 23, 2019

Movies With My Mom: Hustlers

Hustlers may well have been a critical hit and a smash at the box office, but Mel and her mother are a little harder to please ...

What I Learned Talking to Strangers From Different Cultures About Intimacy, Sex and Female Pleasure

Barbara Miller on the journey she took directing her new documentary, #Female Pleasure.

October 18, 2019

The Time I Was An Alien Rapist (for Gregg Araki’s Now Apocalypse)

Actor-writer-director Brian McGuire shares his extraterrestrial experiences working on the New Queer Cinema auteur's recent TV show.

October 17, 2019

As a Vegan, Directing a Documentary About Taxidermy Transformed the Way I See the World

Filmmaker and environmental historian Erin Derham charts the journey she took as she challenged herself making her new film, Stuffed.

October 16, 2019

“The Seed is Planted, The Terror Grows”

Patrick Lussier on his thematic preoccupation with paranoia, both in his new movie Trick and in two longstanding favorites.

October 15, 2019

Three Great Things: David Michôd

The writer-director of the forthcoming historical epic The King on the special pleasures of his home country, music and the game of rugby.

October 11, 2019

Meeting Mack Beggs and Making Mack Wrestles

The directors of the ESPN 30 for 30 film describe the experience of crafting their intimate portrait of the trans wrestler.