film essay

Filmmakers Timour Gregory and Sasha Schneider on their new documentary, Beam Me Up, Sulu — and why Star Trek is still important.

Writer-director Emma Higgins shares some of the tracks that underpin her new music-centric film Sweetness, which is in theaters now.

Former TV writer Jon Stahl on the unlikely genesis of his new comedy web series, Casen Pointe: True Crime Detective.

Newly returned from Sundance, Sandbox Films' Jessica Harrop on her attempts to reconceive what science documentaries can be.

Janek Ambros on how studying the iconic director - and getting personal advice from Coppola himself - has guided him in his film career.

A year after David Lynch’s death, filmmaker Robert Kolodny reveals the idiosyncratic way he has been processing the loss of the iconic auteur.

Actress Irene Sofia Lucio on the question that starring in Liberation on Broadway during the time of ICE raids has forced her to reckon with.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Leah Warshawski on her grandmother, Holocaust survivor Big Sonia, and her 100th birthday.

Filmmaker and sex worker Lily Lady weighs up the virtues of two new festival titles, the film Modern Whore and web series Bulldozer.

Nicola Rose on her favorite short of recent years, the Oscar-winning Sing, and how it inspired her own film Gabrielle.

Through images, Charlie Shackleton tells the story of how his hit Sundance documentary — which is now out on digital — came into existence.

Cherien Dabis, whose Oscar-shortlisted All That's Left of You opens tomorrow, on the imperative nature of telling Palestinian stories.