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An Actor, a Helmsman, and My Brian: Boldly Going Where No Widow Has Gone Before

Melissa Navia, who plays Lt. Erica Ortegas on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, on returning for season two after a devastating, unthinkable loss.

August 11, 2022

Revisited: On Compulsive Home-Movie-Making During Loss, Birth and Hamlet

Bobbi Jene director Elvira Lind on the documentary she shot but may never show about a tumultuous year in her and husband Oscar Isaac's life.

July 22, 2022

Marines and Mountaineers

The Last Mountain filmmaker Chris Terrill on the death of young men, a tragic trope in his recent documentaries.

May 20, 2022

Navigating Grief and Loss While Making My First Feature

Zeshawn Ali on how the passing of his father while making his debut film, Two Gods, shaped the film into a meditation on death and renewal.

May 19, 2021

On Grieving Someone Before They’re Gone

SYML’s new EP is a toast to his father and the cyclical nature of life.

April 28, 2021

We Become the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Writer-director Jessie Barr on the personal story of death, grief and family that underpins her debut feature, Sophie Jones.

March 16, 2021

A Man Doing the Most Basic Thing, Breathing

Filmmaker and artist David Shapiro shares journal entries from the making of his latest project, Untitled Pizza Movie, which is out this week.

February 26, 2021

Coming to Term: A Tale of Loss and Sisterhood

La Leyenda Negra's writer-director Patricia Vidal Delgado on the poignant bond that brought her and her film's lead actress together.

December 14, 2020

How I Nearly Died Making My New Movie

Director Jason Wise recalls a fateful day shooting his new documentary about sea-urchin divers, The Delicacy.

June 1, 2020

Making the Past Present

Driveways director Andrew Ahn processes the death of his grandmother and actor Brian Dennehy by revisiting their performances in his films.

May 7, 2020

Odessa Pushes Through the Low Points

The artist talks the death of her father, the "incredible difficulty of being human," and the myriad highs and lows that led to her new album.

December 2, 2019

A Not Very Funny Story About My Mother and the 1998 Movie The Godson

Ahead of his Off-Broadway show, Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald shares a poignant tale from his past.

August 23, 2019