failure
How Being a Failure Led Me to Making My Feature Debut
Micaela Wittman charts her journey from frustrated actor to writer-director with her breakthrough film Clairevoyant.
My Biggest Failure (and How it Led to Where I Am Today)
Actor Andrew Herr, best known as Jonesy on the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny, on his circuitous route to success.
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.
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.
Revisited: How to Not Feel Like a Failure in the Film Industry
True Blue's writer-director does some frank career self-assessment and envisions a system that is interdependent, not "indie."
Failing Upward
Writer-director Clay Liford examines how he's set himself up for failure in the past and the positive actions he's taking to break that cycle.
How Songwriting Saved Kiri Oliver from the Curse of Perfectionism
The Early Riser frontwoman on the importance of being willing to fall on your face once in a while.
How to Not Feel Like a Failure in the Film Industry
True Blue's writer-director does some frank career self-assessment and envisions a system that is interdependent, not "indie."
Music is My Hobby Now — and I’m Proud
John Strohm (Blake Babies, the Lemonheads) enjoys the simple pleasures of playing a suburban block party.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Gaspar Noé’s Love
Probably the only examination of this film to reference Puff Daddy, Key & Peele, MTV reality shows, Rick Alverson and Michael Bay.








