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Long Live the Werewolf!

Film
By Onur Tukel | June 24, 2025
By Onur Tukel | June 24, 2025

Long Live the Werewolf!

Or how filmmaker Onur Tukel pushed back against the impending singularity by adapting his lycanthrope screenplay Run Werewolf Run into a novel.

Kanye West, Shia LaBeouf and What Happens When We Stop Talking About the Art

Film
By Greg Stewart | June 19, 2025
By Greg Stewart | June 19, 2025

Kanye West, Shia LaBeouf and What Happens When We Stop Talking About the Art

Producer Greg Stewart takes a clear-eyed look at the current trend of shunning "difficult" art and the problems that stem from that.

Personal Exposure

Film
By Karla Murthy | June 17, 2025
By Karla Murthy | June 17, 2025

Personal Exposure

Karla Murthy shares the experience of turning the camera on herself and her family in her latest feature, The Gas Station Attendant.

You Think You Know the Story

Film
By Zyortza | June 13, 2025
By Zyortza | June 13, 2025

You Think You Know the Story

Emerging filmmaker Zyortza on the immigrant narrative of her timely, L.A.-set short film I Don't Even Skate.

Heads Carolina, Tails California

Film
By Lovell Holder | June 6, 2025
By Lovell Holder | June 6, 2025

Heads Carolina, Tails California

Lovell Holder, the writer-director of Lavender Men and producer of The Surrender, on the pleasures of being (accidentally) bicoastal.

Devil in a Wig

Film
By Callie Hernandez | May 30, 2025
By Callie Hernandez | May 30, 2025

Devil in a Wig

Actor-writer-director Callie Hernandez takes us on a journey that starts with her love of Jonathan Glazer's banned commercial for Flake ...

How Filmmaking Became My Escape from Intimacy

Film
By Jon Bregel | May 22, 2025
By Jon Bregel | May 22, 2025

How Filmmaking Became My Escape from Intimacy

Director and cinematographer Jon Bregel on creative burnout and rethinking how to make filmmaking play a truly positive role in his life.

I Made a Movie for an Industry That Didn’t Want It

Film
By Vincent D’Alessandro | May 20, 2025
By Vincent D’Alessandro | May 20, 2025

I Made a Movie for an Industry That Didn’t Want It

Writer-director Vincent D’Alessandro on the challenges he faced finding a home in the world for his debut feature, Bottom Feeders.

The Secret Soundtrack to My Debut Feature

Film
By Max Talisman | May 16, 2025
By Max Talisman | May 16, 2025

The Secret Soundtrack to My Debut Feature

Writer-director-actor Max Talisman shares a definitive mixtape of the love songs that shaped his film Things Like This, which opens today.

Seeing Myself in Egghead & Twinkie

Film
By Sarah Kambe Holland | May 13, 2025
By Sarah Kambe Holland | May 13, 2025

Seeing Myself in Egghead & Twinkie

Writer-director Sarah Kambe Holland on the different aspects of her hilarious debut feature that resonate with her own real-life experiences.

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