Directing
Dylan Allen’s The Privates manages to tackle sci-fi, indie-rock, group dynamics, and merge them into one brilliantly thoughtful short film.…
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There’s a moment in Free Solo during Alex Honnold’s historic, rope-less ascent of El Capitan when the audience sees cinematographer…
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There are a lot of ways you can learn how to make films. You can go to film school. You…
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Danny Madden (a.k.a. Ornana) has one rule: Make films the hard way, or don’t make them at all. “Sometimes it’s…
It’s a weird time to be a nonfiction filmmaker in America. But rarely has it been more important. Not only…
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There’s no easy way to make a film. The process is incredibly long and complex with a thousand unmarked pitfalls…
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Eliot Rausch likes parables and has a habit of turning them into beautiful and thought-provoking, albeit highly ambiguous, short films.…
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At just 26 years old, Daisy Jacobs was nominated for an Academy Award for her animated short film, The Bigger…
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On Directing Film by David Mamet is a short book, just over 100 pages; but it contains everything Mamet knows…
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Hip Hop Cafe is smart. Very smart. From the location to the soundtrack, the concept to the execution, it all…
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