film essay

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.

Crestone director Marnie Ellen Hertzler on the best movie she saw in 2020 — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a video game from 2015.

Filmmaker Noah Hutton on how he was inspired to create a handbook so that the making of his new film Lapsis adhered to the values it upheld.

Shannon Plumb talks film, aging and the pandemic with her friend Azazel Jacobs, whose latest movie, French Exit, opens in theaters this week.

Jordan Graham, the writer-director (and pretty much everything else) of Sator shares the remarkable story of making his debut movie.

For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.

The Wanting Mare writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman pays tribute to a late friend through his meditation on Emily Brontë’s eternal classic.

Filmmaker Constantine Venetopoulos on his ongoing cinematic exploration of gender and identity, including his Oscar-contending new short film.

From America’s Next Top Model to his directorial debut The Right One, industry vet Ken Mok has been focused on everyone on the screen.

Academy Award-winning director Terry Sanders on how he came to make his latest film, a documentary portrait of the late Judge Harry Pregerson.

Kentucker Audley on the journey he and his co-director Albert Birney took in making their new Sundance film, Strawberry Mansion.

Otto Bell on paying homage to cinematic greats in his new documentary short, The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, premiering this weekend on Vice TV.