In THE TALE OF SILYAN — the highly anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-nominated documentary HONEYLAND— filmmaker Tamara Kotevska set out to explore how climate change is reshaping the migration patterns of storks in...
They say journalism is the first rough draft of history—but what about films that confront historical events on screen? Are these works attempts at historical record or cinematic stories that use the past to uncover deeper emotional truths? With her new film ALL...
$7,000 might buy you a used car—but in Hollywood, it barely covers a single day of craft services on a studio film set. But in the world of microbudget filmmaking, $7K became the entire production budget for filmmakers Joe Burke and Oliver Cooper, who used that tiny...
School can be a magical place. Yes, we learn from teachers and instructors — but we also meet people who can change the course of our lives. And film school is no different. For Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou, meeting Sean Baker in a film editing class at AFI...
After the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 and the ensuing Israeli military response, filmmaker Sepideh Farsi knew she wanted to make a documentary about what was unfolding in Gaza. But when she couldn’t gain access to the territory, she had to find...
It’s been nearly 30 years since Ira Sachs burst onto the indie scene with his debut feature THE DELTA. While other indie darlings of that period wandered off to making big-budget superhero pictures or directing marginally interesting episodic TV, Sachs...
