film essay

Writer-director Tzvi shares the two letters he wrote to his cast and crew during the making of his upcoming second feature, The Down.

Writer-director-star Uttera Singh allows herself a few tangents as she tells the story of how her debut feature, Pinch, came to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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