film essay

My First Film director (and new mother) Zia Anger on what it takes to make something and usher it into the world.

Writer-director Nicole Riegel on collaborating with Aaron and Bryce Dessner to shape the musical landscape of her new movie, which is out now.

Bradley Rust Gray, whose new film I'll Be Your Mirror opens tomorrow, examines the different sides of creativity.

Writer-director Corey Sherman on the very specific details that made his crowdpleasing debut feature come fully to life.

As she releases Sleep No More, a new cut of her 2014 debut, Antonia Bogdanovich comes to terms with truly belonging in the director's chair.

Shannon Plumb goes to Florida to visit her father ... and finds inspiration in his surprising narrative arc.

Writer-director Onur Tukel has a novel idea for how the Democratic presidential nominee could claim victory in November.

Ryan Martin Brown looks back on making his new movie Free Time, which is now out on digital, through a photographic lens.

Karla Murthy, whose latest documentary, Love, Jamie, is now streaming on PBS American Masters, on where she finds creative inspiration.

Filmmaker Shaina Feinberg on how her process of reimagining movies has shaped the work she has made over the course of her creative career.

Rachel Elizabeth Seed, director of the new doc A Photographic Memory, dives into the most pressing current topic in non-fiction cinema.

The actor, whose recently published his debut collection of poetry, Her, Him & I, on the role the book played in his personal evolution.