film essay

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.

While finishing his new Sundance feature during COVID-19, animator Dash Shaw relieved his stress through a therapeutic creative outlet.

When COVID-19 forced Spoor director Agnieszka Holland to stop working, she paused to observe some truths about life and cinema.