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Finding the Light: The Making of Brooklyn, Minnesota

Erik Jensen on the deeply testing real-life drama that happened around his latest filmic collaboration with his family.

October 24, 2025

Live Live Live

Filmmaker Jessie Barr shares her cancer story, which is the focus of her upcoming gallery show in Los Angeles next week.

July 3, 2024

How Kid Rock and a Cancer Scare Created My New Film, Chop & Steele

Winnebago Man director Ben Steinbauer on the dramatic and unusual circumstances that led to him making his sophomore feature.

April 18, 2023

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

Start With One Face, End With Another: How Uncertainty in Art Quells Uncertainty in Life

Filmmaker Michelle Memran on how she used making art with watercolor pencils as a form of therapy, from her cancer diagnosis through the pandemic.

July 13, 2021

For the Fun of It: A Conversation with Kate Bornstein and Eli Oberman

The friends discuss mental health, “The Queer Art of Failure,” and the fun of exploring gender.

December 3, 2019

The Simulation Presents Itself

How a moment of personal crisis ignited David Guy Levy’s need to make his new film, The Mandela Effect.

December 2, 2019

My Cancer Vendetta, or The Long Road to Making Cancer Rebellion

Filmmaker and leukemia survivor Hernan Barangan charts the journey that led him to making his documentary feature debut.

May 28, 2019

How I Survived Cancer and Finishing a 15-Year Documentary

Michelle Memran on the lengthy and arduous journey she took to complete The Rest I Make Up, her film about playwright María Irene Fornés.

April 1, 2019

Watching and Waiting

"Better question is, why do I need an excuse for my fear? Why can’t I accept that I’m terrified and that’s a normal feeling? Cancer is scary."

January 24, 2019

Cancer Face

Lucky director John Carroll Lynch on a moment (and an expression) that changed the course of his life.

September 27, 2017

No Label Required

Vincent Sabella, whose debut feature Elizabeth Blue opens today, asks you to see beyond the superficial.

September 22, 2017