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DIY Filmmaking Guru Kentucker Audley Talks How to Make It Big in Hollywood

It's tough to become a successful Hollywood director, but following these simple steps from an industry vet can help fast-track your fame.

September 6, 2014

Clay Liford (Wuss) Talks Fighting Back Against Film Thief Frankie Hopkins

What do you do when someone steals your movie and puts their name on it? Here's what one filmmaker did when Frankie went to Hollywood.

August 16, 2014

David Barker (Daylight) Talks the Invention of Chris Marker

A personal remembrance of meeting the enigmatic French documentarian and film essayist, the subject of an upcoming retrospective.

August 9, 2014

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks the Strange Allure of Straight-to-DVD Sequels

A journey into the often mediocre but oddly intoxicating realm of cut-price franchises.

August 2, 2014

DIY Filmmaking Guru Kentucker Audley Talks How to Become the Next Big Indie Sensation

The pioneering independent director shows you how to harness the power of the internet to help you achieve your career goals.

July 26, 2014

Screenwriter Ben York Jones (Like Crazy) Talks the Worlds of Louie and Maron

If they had made baseball cards for comedy writer/performers of the mid-90s, I would have collected them voraciously.

July 19, 2014

Comedian Jason Nash Talks How to Make Your First Low-Budget Film

My movie, Jason Nash is Married, was released digitally by Comedy Central last month.

July 12, 2014

Frankie Latina (Modus Operandi) Talks Making No-Budget Arthouse Genre Movies in Milwaukee

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! In 1974, Miller-Milkis Productions and Paramount produced a TV show ...

July 5, 2014

Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm) Talks the Greatest Comedy Director Who Never Made a Film

I had already consumed healthy doses of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, True Stories, Airplane and Strange Brew ...

June 14, 2014

Sundance Winner Tracy Droz Tragos Talks Balancing Movies and Motherhood

Here’s what I posted on Facebook a few days ago: Sweet P just lost her first tooth. And I missed it!

May 31, 2014

Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) Talks TV as “The New Cinema”

TELEVISION IS THE NEW CINEMA – is something many of us have been saying for over 10 years now.

May 24, 2014

Filmmakers Ondi Timoner, Peter Nicks and Alison Klayman Talk Searching for Sugar Man’s Malik Bendjelloul

Following the tragic death last week of Malik Bendjelloul, director of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man...

May 17, 2014