film essay

Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.

True Blue's writer-director does some frank career self-assessment and envisions a system that is interdependent, not "indie."

Filmmaker Jack Dunphy on his late best friend John Cibula, and the shifting role Terry Zwigoff’s dark holiday comedy played in their relationship.

Shannon Plumb on The Disappearance of My Mother, an intimate portrait of ex-model Benedetta Barzini, and her own brush with the fashion world.

Aron Eli Coleite, the comic book writer and co-creator/showrunner of Netflix's Daybreak, has some stuff to get off his chest.

When Tom Quinn set out to make Colewell, he didn't realize he was telling a story about someone so close to home: his next-door neighbor.

Amber Rollo, a comedian, writer and actor who was one of the people who confronted Harvey Weinstein at a New York comedy show in October, speaks out.

Comedian Anna Roisman reveals the cinematic source of her knowledge about the gentile holiday extravaganza.

Writer-director Jessica Hausner looks back on a pivotal, make-or-break moment during production on her new film, Little Joe.

Writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin on how retreating from the world led him to make his new film about a shut-in, The Wolf Hour.

Documentarian Luke Lorentzen shares how he captured such unguarded, intimate footage for his new film, Midnight Family.

Marie Therese Guirgis, producer of the Steve Bannon documentary The Brink, recalls her darkest day working on the film.