film essay

La Leyenda Negra's writer-director Patricia Vidal Delgado on the poignant bond that brought her and her film's lead actress together.

Seamus Murphy, director of the new doc A Dog Called Money, on traveling the world with PJ Harvey – and his favorite binge-worthy TV shows.

Seth Savoy, the director and co-writer of the crime thriller Echo Boomers, on exactly what it took to get his new movie made.

Charles Gould, currently starring in the horror-comedy It Cuts Deep, yearns for the golden age when performers like him could become A-listers.

Hubert Point-Du Jour, one of the stars of Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, on how he has used music in his creative process as an actor.

David Raboy, the director of the new psychological thriller The Giant, on a moment in production that came to define the film for him.

Actor turned writer-director Cory Wexler Grant on the emotion that drove him to make his directorial debut, Painter, out now on VOD.

For Deborah Shaffer, director of the new doc Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, the political has always been personal.

Hasan Oswald shares the compelling story of how he came to make his Slamdance Grand Jury-winning doc Higher Love, out now on digital.

Spell director Mark Tonderai looks back on his dramatic childhood in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and how it shaped him as an artist.

Making his new film, 18 to Party, writer-director Jeff Roda discovered that sometimes you should meet your heroes, after all.

Henry Butash reflects on how his time on three films by the master affected his own directorial debut, The Atlantic City Story.