film essay

Writer-director-actor Melissa Stephens on the very personal motivation that drove her to make her new short film, Travis.

Producer Marie Therese Guirgis on her recent struggles to both be a serious cinephile and stay true to her feminist principles.

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

Filmmaker and musician Brian McGuire charts his journey from daydreaming hyper spaze to director and cryptocurrency connoisseur.

Writer-director Lone Scherfig spotlights the closing moment of her latest film, The Kindness of Strangers, and the two special actors in it.

A letter of appreciation from one director to another.

Krys Marshall, currently starring in Apple TV+'s For All Mankind, rejects the tired myth of scarcity and cattiness amongst women in Hollywood.

Most people watch horror movies to scare themselves silly. For comedian Anita Flores, it’s a little more complicated.

Horror director Richard Stanley on the legacy of H. P. Lovecraft, the emergence of a post-truth religion, and his new film, Color Out of Space.

Documentary director Lynne Sachs sheds light on the innovative approach she took while making her new film, Film About a Father Who.

Making his new film in China, the director of Don't Be a Dick About It had an epiphany. It might sound a bit odd, but hear him out!

Troop Zero's directing duo on the importance of female collaboration and making the female answer to Stand By Me and The Goonies.