autobiography Archives

Taika, Trump, Putin and Me

By Wes Hurley | March 17, 2022

Russian-born writer-director Wes Hurley on the myriad struggles of making his autobiographical epic, Potato Dreams of America.

By Linas Phillips | July 22, 2021

Writer-director Linas Phillips, who’s currently crowdfunding his next film, Take Two, on drawing for real life for his movies.

By Jonathan Wysocki | September 16, 2020

Dramarama writer-director Jonathan Wysocki on the perils and pitfalls of making work that draws from one’s own life.

By Emily Nokes | March 20, 2017

Emily Nokes meant to write about the KISS member’s paperback months ago —then Trump happened.

By Zach Clark | August 20, 2014

How do you bounce back from the lowest, most humiliating experience of your life? If you're Catherine Breillat, you make a film about it.

By Colin Meloy | December 7, 2013

How to even begin? I mean, how?

By Dean Wareham | March 16, 2013

In 1979, at age 16, I saw Richard Hell & the Voidoids at CBGB, the first rock show I ever paid for with my own money. I remember being in awe of...