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Leap, Then Look: Saying Yes to Sweet Girl

Brian Andrew Mendoza on the long road to making his feature directorial debut with the Jason Momoa thriller, now streaming on Netflix.

August 30, 2021

Real Fear in a Thriller

Director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino on how he brought genuine human emotion and an unconventional protagonist to his manhunt movie Beckett.

Fall and Rise

River writer-director Emily Skye on what happened when her dream film project suddenly fell apart in pre-production five years ago.

July 16, 2021

Filmmaking Starts at Home

Indie icon Alexandre Rockwell on making movies with his family, on his 2013 film Little Feet and his latest feature, Sweet Thing.

June 25, 2021

In the Space Between My Last Directing Job and My Next

Rachel Winter tells the story of her 15-year quest to produce The Space Between, and how the film became her directorial debut.

June 22, 2021

On the Economic Realities of Telling My Story

Writer-director Nicole Riegel on her path to making her debut feature, Holler, and creating a table for herself and other filmmakers.

June 16, 2021

Queer Enough?

Milkwater writer-director Morgan Ingari interrogates her identity as queer given her current relationship with a cisgendered heterosexual man.

June 8, 2021

Three Great Things: Natalie Morales

The actress turned multihyphenate, whose solo directorial debut Plan B hits Hulu on Friday, shares some of her favorite stuff in life.

May 26, 2021

How Horror Movies and Rave Culture Made Me the Filmmaker I Am Today

Undergods writer-director Chino Moya on the unusual childhood and adolescent experiences that shaped him and his work.

May 10, 2021

From One (Great) Man to Another: Darius Marder and the Story of Sound of Metal

Shannon Plumb on how her friend and fellow filmmaker came to make his acclaimed, double Oscar-winning drama.

May 4, 2021

Finding Limbo

Writer-director Ben Sharrock on how he made the first feature film to be shot on the Uists, a remote chain of islands 30 miles off the Scottish coast.

April 30, 2021

From Cupcakes to Kimmel, Movies and Beyond!

Maureen Bharoocha, whose new film Golden Arm is out Friday, traces her unlikely and eventful journey to the director's chair.

April 28, 2021