“Stereotypes Help People Delegitimize Other People and Ideas They Want to Distance Themselves From”: Michael Premo on Homegrown
Homegrown While the eruption of violence at the US Capitol on January 6th...
“I Became Obsessed with the Idea that All Great Art Contains the Life Force of the Artist…”: Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed on A Photographic Memory
A Photographic Memory Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s photographer mother Sheila Turner Seed died...
“I Became Obsessed with the Idea that All Great Art Contains the Life Force of the Artist…”: Director Rachel Seed on A Photographic Memory
A Photographic Memory Filmmaker Rachel Seed’s photographer mother Sheila Turner Seed died when...
“The Film Is Not About AI, Not About Werner Herzog, and Never Aimed To Embrace AI Technology”: Piotr Winiewicz on His IDFA Opening Night Doc About a Hero
“About a Hero” Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero is as mindbogglingly complex as...
“I Grow as I Make a Film”: Nanfu Wang on Her HBO Documentary, Night Is Not Eternal
Night Is Not Eternal It’s a bit surprising to think that when I...
“Doc Filmmaking Can Be a Very Weird Process of Interpersonal Negotiations”: Debra Granik on Conbody vs Everybody
Conbody vs Everybody Though Debra Granik is no stranger to Sundance — 2004’s...
“Shifting Focus from Political Agendas To the Real Faces of Conflict”: Sareen Hairabedian on Her DOC NYC-Premiering My Sweet Land
“My Sweet Land” (courtesy Sister Prods/Soilsiu Films) Admittedly, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was not in...
“It Was a Process of Experience Meets Intuition Meets Dancing with the Unknown”: Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet on Their DOC NYC-Debuting Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet’s...
“A Deep Dive Into My Trauma”: Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries
Black Box Diaries Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries is a film the Japanese journalist...
“With Viktor I Approached Sign Language Just Like Any Other Language”: Olivier Sarbil on His TIFF-premiering doc Viktor
Viktor One of the cinematic highlights of this year’s TIFF, Olivier Sarbil’s Ukraine-set...
“My Father Started Using the Hidden Camera to Send Messages Expressing What Seemed Like Regrets”: Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc on their TIFF-Premiering Doc Tata
#image_title Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s TIFF-debuting Tata originated with a cry for...
The Devil, Most Definitely: Christopher Jason Bell on His Ten-Part Archival George W. Bush Docu-Series Miss Me Yet
Miss Me Yet “When George W Bush becomes president, for the first time,...