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Journey Back to My Father

Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins on the long-lost, newly restored Cane River, which his father Horace completed just months before his death in 1982.

February 20, 2020

A Father-Son Story

For A Score to Settle director Shawn Ku, the themes of his films connect deeply to his own relationship with his father.

August 14, 2019

The Hot Dads of Are We Not Cats

Writer-director Xander Robin introduces us to the disparate men he found to play father figures in his decidedly unconventional debut feature.

February 21, 2018

“Everybody Dies Frustrated and Sad and That is Beautiful,” or How Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Helped Me Through a Shitty Time

Writer, director and animator Jack Dunphy on the curious resonance of Apu Trilogy in the wake of his father's death.

August 28, 2017

Jennifer Prediger (Apartment Troubles) Talks John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein’s Vacation

A trip back home to see family also becomes a journey to see the new version of an old favorite movie (and then also the original).

August 4, 2015

Reinaldo Marcus Green (Stone Cars) Talks How His Father Taught Him Filmmaking Through Life Lessons

On Father's Day weekend, a director looks back on how his father (unwittingly) gave him and his brother the tools to fulfill their creative dreams.