film essay

The Sonata's writer-director examines the roots of how fascination with deviating wildly from portrayals of everyday life in his films.

Writer-director Liz Manashil on traveling through time in Speed of Life and on the eve of 2020.

For writer-director Aaron Schimberg, finding the right way to describe his latest feature, Chained for Life, has been challenging.

Writer-directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky on the real, unglamorous story behind their award-winning breakthrough movie Freaks.

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.