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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.

April 5, 2022

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.

January 18, 2022

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.

March 3, 2021

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.

February 22, 2021

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."

December 25, 2019

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.

March 12, 2019

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.

February 28, 2019

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."

February 22, 2019

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.

June 27, 2016

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.

November 6, 2015