The penultimate edition in its long-running Park City location, the Sundance Film Festival began today, and, as I note every year, the event is bellwether when it comes to an assessment of the ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Summer of Soul will premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festiva’s Premieres section. The film combines archival footage with new interviews ...

In The Dating Game I was determined to express myself freely without […] ...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...

Shearn: If you break down the editing style of By Design, there’s nearly every technique imaginable: continuity, experimental, cross cutting, montage, fades, match cuts, jump cuts. Amanda’s approach ...

By Design, the latest film by Amanda Kramer ( Please Baby Please , Ladyworld) has an instantly memorable logline: “A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.” The ...

It ended up a light day—almost a celebration, after a hard-fought schedule. I hitched a ride with Dylan back to Portland, and we reflected on the whole experience. The day punctuated the years-long ...

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore trains its camera on Marlee Matlin, who became the first Deaf performer to win an Oscar when she took home Best Actress for the 1987 film Children of a Lesser God. The ...

DP David Jacobson on Pee-wee as Himself. Filmed before his death in 2023, Pee-wee as Himself, an episodic project from docume ...

Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister. Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and importa ...

Making the leap to features alongside Webley is his frequent partner Paul Meyers, who served as DP on Omaha. Below, Meyers elaborates on the challenges of shooting a film with child actors and how it ...