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Finding My Voice as a Gay Asian Immigrant Filmmaker – and Giving Voice to Others

Devin Fei-Fan Tau on the long life journey that brought him to making his new, George Takei-narrated documentary, Who's on Top?

May 18, 2021

Cinema of the Interior

For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.

February 8, 2021

Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking

Dramarama writer-director Jonathan Wysocki on the perils and pitfalls of making work that draws from one’s own life.

September 16, 2020

Remembering Artie

An appreciation of pioneering gay filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. by Emmy Award-winning director Greta Schiller.

July 29, 2020

The Power of Being Seen

As Pride Month ends, writer-director Morgan Jon Fox shares his feelings on representation and intersectionality in LGBTQ film.

June 30, 2020

I Know the Ghosts: Employing Grandmother Wisdom in My Debut Feature

First-time filmmaker Bo McGuire on how he used “skillful will” to make his Tribeca-winning docudrama Socks on Fire.

April 30, 2020

Maybe It’s Time to Give Up

The hard road James Sweeney traveled to make his debut feature Straight Up is not necessarily one that everyone will survive.

February 27, 2020

How Portrait of a Lady on Fire Radically Reimagines the Past

Filmmaker Cosmo Collins Salovaara on Céline Sciamma's revolutionary lesbian period piece, which presents a very contemporary take on the 18th century.

February 26, 2020

Love in the Time of Diaspora

Manila Death Squad director Dean Colin Marcial looks at Isabel Sandoval’s new film, Lingua Franca, through a distinctly personal lens.

November 26, 2019

Why Beyond the Hills is the Most Underrated Queer Film of the Decade

Jeremy Hersh, who's currently crowdfunding his debut feature The Surrogate on Kickstarter, makes the case for Cristian Mungiu's 2012 drama.

November 21, 2019

The Cinema of the Other

David Charles Rodrigues on how his personal history inspired him to make Gay Chorus Deep South a film for mainstream America.

November 6, 2019

I Make a Film, the Film Makes Me

Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli on So Pretty, a fictional autobiography which came to shape her and how she saw herself and the world.