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Throuples, Trauma and Taboos: Healing Through Art with My Debut Feature

Writer-director Sarah Jayne Brown on the messy, uncomfortable process of writing Unicorn’s Dilemma, now crowdfunding on Indiegogo.

Disney Stalker Support Group

Child actor turned writer-director Allisyn Snyder on the real-life inspiration for her debut feature, the horror movie Howdy Neighbor!

July 28, 2023

Showing My Work

Director Megan Griffiths on the extensive reading about trauma she did for her new film, I'll Show You Mine, which is out this week.

June 21, 2023

The Shadow Work of My First Film, or: How Fantasy Became My Guide for Healing Trauma

Writer-director-actor Carlson Young on the unique creative and personal journey she took in making her debut feature, The Blazing World.

October 15, 2021

Reflections on the Making of a Hybrid Film: This Is Not a War Story

Writer-director-actor Talia Lugacy on how she rooted her new movie in authenticity through her innovative filmmaking approach.

June 1, 2021

Love You, Mum and Dad

Spell director Mark Tonderai looks back on his dramatic childhood in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and how it shaped him as an artist.

November 9, 2020

I Believe in Monsters. I Believe in Time Machines.

Writer-director Angelica Zollo on the subject of her debut feature, Trauma is a Time Machine.

September 19, 2019

How to Talk About Something People Never Actually Talk About

Columbine survivor and doc director Laura Farber on what she learned making We Are Columbine, and telling a story that needed to be told.

April 9, 2019

Phildel on Recovering from Trauma Through Her Art

“Creativity gives us the potential for true transformation.”

March 6, 2019

Shadows of the Past

The director of Super Dark Times reveals how making the film helped him come to terms with two traumatic incidents from his youth.

June 25, 2018

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Lenny Abrahamson’s Room

The horror directing great is shaken by a troubling (but horribly familiar) premise and two phenomenal central performances.

January 13, 2016

Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) Talks Beach House’s Depression Cherry

How does Depression Cherry work out for someone who's depressed? Our writer finds out — the hard way.

August 31, 2015