Directing
Vengeance and Pickles, or Why My First New York Movie is Really All About Food
When Tim Sutton set his new movie Funny Face in NYC, he knew it had to be a celebration of the city's diverse culinary pleasures.
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.
“Real is a Thing That Happens to You”
Filmmaker Christina Kallas talks with her friend and former student Alexander Nanau, director of the double Oscar nominee Collective.
Dangerous Business: On Loving Elaine May and Ishtar
Canadian filmmaker Mark Cira traces his long, complicated relationship with May's famously derided comedy back to his anarchist teen years.
Of Duct Tape, Dreams and a Guy in Walpole
Dante Bellini, director of Ken Burns: Here & There, on how the documentary icon helped him make a late-career leap to filmmaking.
The Girls of Kaali Khuhi
When writer-director Terrie Samundra made her feature debut, she ignored the age-old adage about not working with children and animals ...
What It’s Like Releasing a Racially Charged Movie about a Chinese Immigrant During COVID-19
Asian-Canadian writer-director Li Dong, whose debut feature, Stealing School, is out this week on VOD, gives his take on the current moment.
On the Virtues of Cinematic Failure
PVT Chat's writer-director Ben Hozie on what he learned making his first two features, neither of which have ever seen the light of day.
What a Feminist, Anti-Colonial Science Lab Taught Me About Ethical Filmmaking
Filmmaker Noah Hutton on how he was inspired to create a handbook so that the making of his new film Lapsis adhered to the values it upheld.
How I Spent Seven Years Single-handedly Making a Demonic Thriller – and Accidentally Uncovered My Family’s Dark History
Jordan Graham, the writer-director (and pretty much everything else) of Sator shares the remarkable story of making his debut movie.
Cinema of the Interior
For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.
Viggo Mortensen Talks with Alix Lambert on the Talkhouse Podcast
The actor, whose debut feature as writer-director, Falling, is out tomorrow, chats with his longtime friend and fellow filmmaker.











