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Finding Limbo

Writer-director Ben Sharrock on how he made the first feature film to be shot on the Uists, a remote chain of islands 30 miles off the Scottish coast.

April 30, 2021

From Cupcakes to Kimmel, Movies and Beyond!

Maureen Bharoocha, whose new film Golden Arm is out Friday, traces her unlikely and eventful journey to the director's chair.

April 28, 2021

Terrifying. Unexpected. Beautiful: The Making of Concrete Cowboy

Writer-director Ricky Staub on the life-changing experience of making his Philadelphia-set debut feature, and the remarkable people he met on the way.

April 21, 2021

How One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Helped Me Embrace My Transmasculinity

Lane Michael Stanley, writer-director of Addict Named Hal, on how Ken Kesey’s book and its iconic film adaptation changed how they see gender.

April 19, 2021

Little Voices

Prompted by Allen v. Farrow, Shannon Plumb shares a story from her own family that shows the importance of listening to and believing children.

April 14, 2021

Ground Spiders & Homemade Hot Sauce: Behind the Behind-the-Scenes of Beast Beast

Writer-director Danny Madden shares the memorable in-between moments from his new film, which opens in select theaters this Friday.

April 13, 2021

When I Needed Them, My Community Was There for Me

Director Jessica Kavana Dornbusch on how her Miami filmmaking peers stepped up when her new movie Reefa was illegally shut down by the police.

The Documentaries That Were My Film School

10 years after Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon premiered at Tribeca, director Stephen C. Mitchell looks at the movies which shaped it.

April 8, 2021

Art is the Answer to the Question We Didn’t Know to Ask

Come True's director and co-writer Anthony Scott Burns on how Michael Mann’s Manhunter saved him and changed the course of his life.

April 2, 2021

How Rachel Sennott Changed My Life

Shiva Baby's writer-director Emma Seligman on her lead actress, who also took on the role of friend, champion and support system.

April 1, 2021

Vengeance and Pickles, or Why My First New York Movie is Really All About Food

When Tim Sutton set his new movie Funny Face in NYC, he knew it had to be a celebration of the city's diverse culinary pleasures.

March 31, 2021

Finding Home

First-time documentarian Karla Murthy, whose film The Place That Makes Us airs tomorrow on WORLD Channel, ponders what home means to her.

March 29, 2021