film essay

Julia Marchese on how being an outsider and her love of Stephen King led to her latest project, a film version of King's story “I Know What You Need.”

Indie legend Tom DiCillo writes for the first time about the backstory to his 2006 film and why he needed to revisit it for a new version.

Lifelong best friends Hannah Leder and Alexandra Kotcheff share adventures from making their debut feature The Planters alone in the desert.

When you travel all over and play a show a day for a year and make a movie about it, you inevitably learn lessons. But you also have to remember them.

Screenwriter Nakia Stephens reflects on how she’s learning to release the shackles of productivity by leaning into purpose.

Tom Gilroy examines the influence of Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Tsai Ming-liang on his new short film, #WaynesvilleStrong.

Writer-director Brian Duffield on making Spontaneous for three years in three countries for multiple owners before a pandemic.

The writer-directors of Save Yourselves! begin their campaign to get the comedies of Yahoo Serious into the Criterion Collection.

Jay Paul Deratany, a working attorney who wrote and produced the new film Foster Boy, on his duty to share the stories of foster youth.

Director Luke Eve on the backstory to his new film, I Met a Girl, the latest in a series of projects focused on mental health.

The director of All Roads to Pearla recalls and shares images from a human trafficking raid in Houston that he covered as a photojournalist.

I’ve Got Issues writer-director Steve Collins on how he has looked to film, rather than religion, for a path to inner peace and salvation.