Filmmaker Magazine's Avatar

Filmmaker Magazine

@filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. [bridged from https://filmmakermagazine.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/filmmakermagazine.com ]

659 Followers  |  0 Following  |  738 Posts  |  Joined: 11.09.2024  |  1.8402

Latest posts by filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy on Bluesky

Preview
“The Whole Movie is Doing an Impression of the Genre”: Akiva Schaffer on The Naked Gun In the early 1980s, Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker pioneered a niche of slapstick- and wordplay-heavy spoof-comedies with films like Airplane! and Top Secret!, which displayed straight-faced silliness as a creative modus operandi. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (or ZAZ) also produced the short-lived ABC TV series Police Squad!, which parodied police procedurals and starred Leslie Nielsen as the inept, overconfident Detective Frank Drebin. After Police Squad!’s cancellation, ZAZ took Nielsen’s Drebin character and molded him for the big screen with The Naked Gun film franchise, where the trio’s patented mile-a-minute visual gags could flourish on a wider […] The post “The Whole Movie is Doing an Impression of the Genre”: Akiva Schaffer on _The Naked Gun_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
01.08.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“This Film is a Celebration and Examination of My Fears and Anxieties about Fully Committing to Somebody”: Director Michael Shanks on NEON Body Horror Film, Together Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks met his life partner of 17 years at what he calls the Aussie equivalent of spring break. “It probably sounds more glamorous than it actually is,” Shanks laughs. “A week after high school, you just go and get drunk with people in a park or something.” For the couple, it was love at first sight, a union that settled into a committed long-term relationship of nearly two decades. “We’ve been together for so long that when we started to live together, I was confronting the idea of sharing a life,” Shanks remembers. “We have all the […] The post “This Film is a Celebration and Examination of My Fears and Anxieties about Fully Committing to Somebody”: Director Michael Shanks on NEON Body Horror Film, _Together_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
01.08.2025 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“We Put Ourselves in the Center of the Universe Without Thinking of the Other Creatures and Species Around Us”: Victor Kossakovsky on Architecton A film starring rocks should not be this thrilling. But in the meditative hands of master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (2018’s Aquarela, 2020’s Oscar-shortlisted Gunda), Architecton, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale, is an epic and hypnotic stone-centered quest to answer the existential question, “How do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?” And the original precursor to today’s concrete — the most-used substance in the world after water — seems to provide a surprisingly sensible answer. With Italian architect Michele De Lucchi as our bedrock, we’re swept into a visually striking, globetrotting excursion that takes us from the bombed-out buildings of […] The post “We Put Ourselves in the Center of the Universe Without Thinking of the Other Creatures and Species Around Us”: Victor Kossakovsky on _Architecton_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
01.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“Making a Movie is Just a Succession of On-Set Challenges”: Ari Aster on Eddington Ari Aster previously used the horror genre as a lens to examine dysfunctional family dynamics in Hereditary and break-up messiness in Midsommar. He then pivoted to the manic surrealism of Beau is Afraid, which immerses viewers in the title character’s perma-anxious mindset, generated by his mother’s domineering hold on his entire world. In Eddington, Aster pivots again, away from individual psychological portraits towards a more panoramic view of recent political history. Set in the eponymous fictional New Mexico town during the initial months of COVID, Eddington uses a contested election between its bar-owning neoliberal mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) and […] The post “Making a Movie is Just a Succession of On-Set Challenges”: Ari Aster on _Eddington_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
31.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“Fairy Tales Are the Stories We Tell Our Children to Warn Them…”: Writer/Director Kelsey Taylor on Her Suspenseful Debut Feature, To Kill a Wolf For viewers watching Kelsey Taylor’s terrific debut feature, To Kill a Wolf, it’s easy to miss that its very loose source material is the 17th-century children’s fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Yes, there’s a girl lost in the woods, a woodsman, a grandma (arguably), and a wolf, although the latter is hardly an obvious figure. But the relationships between these characters and their backstories are newly invented, mapping onto contemporary anxieties and fears as much an archetypal narrative structures. Consider To Kill a Wolf something of a remix, the kind where the source material haunts rather than dictates, and […] The post “Fairy Tales Are the Stories We Tell Our Children to Warn Them…”: Writer/Director Kelsey Taylor on Her Suspenseful Debut Feature, _To Kill a Wolf_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
29.07.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“You Have to Commit Full-Time To It… You Will See How Good You Can Really Be”: Martin Harris, Back To One, Episode 352 Martin Harris has delivered stand-out work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Young Sheldon, NCIS: Los Angeles, Stranger Things, and now he plays the Boravian General in Superman. On this episode he describes the surprisingly efficient production that James Gunn presided over, and how it felt like “shooting a party video.” He surmises why directors keep giving him more scenes on-set, how reading a book between set-ups not only gets you focused but is also a conversation-starter, why he credits Kobe Bryant with helping him get to the next level with his career, and much more. Back To One can be […] The post “You Have to Commit Full-Time To It… You Will See How Good You Can Really Be”: Martin Harris, Back To One, Episode 352 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
29.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
FIDMarseille 2025: Fascist Equestrians and Others Since changing its official name from Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille to Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, FIDMarseille has become a significant premiere-driven industry festival dedicated to the expansive genre of “creative nonfiction” to include experimental, hybrid and essayistic works, often with a political ethos. For its 36th edition, FID reaffirmed its rare outspokenness on Palestine by screening To Gaza (2025) and hosting daily morning screenings of the collective work Some Strings. Through retrospectives of Radu Jude and Chilean duo Carolina Adriazola and José Luis Sepúlveda, the festival also seemed intent on signaling that it is not only […] The post FIDMarseille 2025: Fascist Equestrians and Others first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
25.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“You Go to L.A. and Then You Start Working with Roger Corman”: DP Paul Elliott on Duster, Ken Russell and Roger Deakins In Duster, an impossibly cool wheelman (Josh Holloway) and a rookie FBI agent (Rachel Hilson) join forces to take down a crime boss (Keith David) in 1970s Phoenix. If any of the creative forces behind the HBO series ever wondered if they were properly capturing the vibe of 1970s pulp, all they had to do was turn to cinematographer Paul Elliott for confirmation. Though born and raised in London, Elliott arrived in the States at the end of the 1970s and began working at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures as a camera assistant. He crossed paths with cult B-movie figures […] The post “You Go to L.A. and Then You Start Working with Roger Corman”: DP Paul Elliott on _Duster_ , Ken Russell and Roger Deakins first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
22.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“We Gave Space for Each Other to Breathe”: Unicorns Star Jason Patel, Back To One, Episode 351 Jason Patel is an emerging actor and artist. He plays the lead role of “Aysha” in Unicorns, opposite Ben Hardy. It’s his feature film debut. The film is co-directed by Sally El-Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd, who also wrote the screenplay. Unicorns also features Patel’s music, a true fusion of both art forms. On this episode, he talks about how he approaches everything in life with creativity and love, and why his life goal is to make people happy even when he’s not there. He describes the giant role music plays in his preparation, the importance of staying in the […] The post “We Gave Space for Each Other to Breathe”: _Unicorns_ Star Jason Patel, Back To One, Episode 351 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
22.07.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
LED Walls: Working with the LED Volume for Cinematographers Origin of Image-Based Lighting The LED Volume is derived from the concept of Image-Based Lighting (IBL) invented by Paul Debevec in 1998, which refers to mapping an HDR image onto a photosphere enveloped around a subject to serve as primary light source in CGI. The Light Stage 3 (2002) was the first physical set to use an array of RGB LED lights surrounding an actor to create an omnidirectional source. Although its 156 LED bulbs did not have enough density for close-ups or reflective elements, Light Stage 3 laid the foundation for how an LED stage could become an omnidirectional […] The post LED Walls: Working with the LED Volume for Cinematographers first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
21.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“I Finalized the Script Two Weeks Before the Crew Arrived”: Alexandra Simpson on No Sleep Till Against the darkening skies of an imminent hurricane in Atlantic Beach, Florida, disparate characters become unmoored in No Sleep Till, the feature debut from French-American filmmaker Alexandra Simpson. Shot in the coastal enclave where she partially grew up with her father, Simpson’s film casts a “European gaze” (she was largely raised in Paris and attended film school in Geneva) tinted by a palpable nostalgia for a place she never truly knew and that she believes could one day disappear as a result of a natural disaster. There’s a laconic quality to No Sleep Till, but the absence of narrative-driving dialogue […] The post “I Finalized the Script Two Weeks Before the Crew Arrived”: Alexandra Simpson on _No Sleep Till_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
18.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Karlovy Vary 2025: Promising Young Men and Women “There are so many promising debut features, then all those filmmakers go on to be jury members.” A new acquaintance was lamenting the dearth of directors under 40 with distinct styles and durable careers; I laughed, but it was a fair synopsis of a grim landscape. Per Wallace Stevens, the imagination may always be at the end of an era, but at this particular moment imagination and reality seem truly as one. Still, I’m in my unlikely second act as an (aspirational) optimist seeking reasons to be cheerful, and film festivals can help keep me in that headspace—at least we […] The post Karlovy Vary 2025: Promising Young Men and Women first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
16.07.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“We Created the Film to Address How Journalism Was Perpetuating Anti-Trans Bias”: Sam Feder on Heightened Scrutiny As someone who started calling myself “bigendered” decades ago, trans visibility has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s a relief to no longer have to explain being nonbinary to puzzled and often dubious cisgender folks (gay and straight alike). On the other hand, it’s infuriating to watch as one’s existence is then abruptly erased and turned into an “ideology” by right-wing transphobes. And it’s downright demeaning to have one’s identity suddenly hijacked and transformed into a hip “cause” by cisgender liberals. (The dehumanization inevitably leading to dangers like the NYTimes breathless bothsidesism reporting on […] The post “We Created the Film to Address How Journalism Was Perpetuating Anti-Trans Bias”: Sam Feder on _Heightened Scrutiny_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
16.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“If Every Art is Sacred, That Means the Act of Making Art is Itself a Sacred Thing”: David Malinsky, Back To One, Episode 350 For the 350th episode of Back To One, I sat down with an actor who brings me great joy when he’s on the screen, the one and only David Malinsky. He wrote the blurb himself for this episode. It follows: Peter has only met David three times in person before. His filmography includes Onur Tukel’s Abbey Singer/Songwriter, Black Magic for White Boys, Poundcake, Theodore Collatos’ Tormenting the Hen, MG Cinecraft’s A Moderate Folly and more. Dave has also done standup comedy, cabaret singing, and YouTube Video Essays. But Dave thinks it’s vital to situate acting within art and human history, […] The post “If Every Art is Sacred, That Means the Act of Making Art is Itself a Sacred Thing”: David Malinsky, Back To One, Episode 350 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
15.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“The Film Remains a Mystery to Me — Why is That?”: Nicholas Rombes on the Timecodes Series and Walking with Gus Van Sant’s Gerry As the pandemic rumbled on, in early ’22, and with my annual winter sojourn to the Sundance Film Festival cancelled, I took an online course in boredom. With so many customary diversions having been put on hold, I had reason to be bored, I suppose, but in taking the course I was more interested in boredom as an intellectual topic. You see, I have vivid memories of being bored as a kid — the books at the library I wanted to read were checked out, my elementary school’s summer activities were lame, there was not much on TV — but, […] The post “The Film Remains a Mystery to Me — Why is That?”: Nicholas Rombes on the _Timecodes_ Series and Walking with Gus Van Sant’s _Gerry_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
11.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Palestinians in Purgatory: Mahdi Fleifel on To A Land Unknown Midway through To A Land Unknown, Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s narrative feature debut, Palestinian cousins stranded in Athens—sharp Chatila (Mahmood Bakri), his wife and kid back in Lebanon’s camps, and sensitive Reda (Aram Sabbah), working hard to rein in his drug addiction—find themselves wanting to help Malik (Mohammad Alsurafa), a 13-year-old Palestinian orphan new to Athenian streets, get to his undocumented refugee aunt in Italy. The duo’s passage to Germany—to Europe, to freedom, to the autonomy of running their own cafe in some Arab enclave of Berlin, to everything neither Palestine nor Lebanon can offer them in the world’s current […] The post Palestinians in Purgatory: Mahdi Fleifel on _To A Land Unknown_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
10.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“A Medieval Period Piece for Under $200,000”: Caroline Golum on FIDMarseille 2025 Premiere Revelations of Divine Love, Prayer and Process Since watching Revelations of Divine Love—which is making its world premiere at FIDMarseille today—I’ve found myself thinking about its construction, restraint, devotion to form and alarming sincerity. Brimming with the mystery of manifestation, it is a work of sheer will, equal parts spiritual inquiry and cinematic lament. Masterfully lensed by cinematographer Gabe Elder, the light surrounding our heroine, Julian of Norwich (Tessa Strain), is diffused and precise, its textures tangible. I reached out to Caroline Golum because I found myself curious: not just about the film itself, but about her process, commitment, and rigor that shaped it. The film draws […] The post “A Medieval Period Piece for Under $200,000”: Caroline Golum on FIDMarseille 2025 Premiere _Revelations of Divine Love_ , Prayer and Process first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
09.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
25 Years After the “Battle of Seattle,” The Same Tactics Are Seen in LA We’re the filmmaking team behind the new documentary, WTO/99, a film that examines—purely through archival footage—four days of protests in Seattle during 1999 against the World Trade Organization (WTO). We’ve spent over two years living in the footage of the largest US demonstrations since the Vietnam War captured by protesters on the ground, the Seattle Police Department and local and national new crews. We’ve reviewed roughly one thousand hours of footage that followed protesters, police and governmental officials as they participated in what would later become known as the “Battle of Seattle”—the week in 1999 when over 40,000 people took […] The post 25 Years After the “Battle of Seattle,” The Same Tactics Are Seen in LA first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
08.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“It was Physicalizing the Words That Became the Goal”: Erik Jensen, Back To One, Episode 349 Erik Jensen is a multipyphenate who, along with his wife and creative partner Jessica Blank have been called “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S.” Their genre-defining plays The Exonerated, Aftermath, Coal Country, and The Line were all critically acclaimed. As an actor, Jensen’s credits include The Walking Dead, Mindhunter, Mr. Robot, The Americans, not to mention his praised portrayal of legendary NY Yankee Thurman Munson in The Bronx is Burning. On this episode he details his approach toward playing that beloved figure, and finding out that “almost the entire body of that character was an emotional word-gesture.” […] The post “It was Physicalizing the Words That Became the Goal”: Erik Jensen, Back To One, Episode 349 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
08.07.2025 07:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Cinema without Adjectives: Rita Azevedo Gomes on Fuck the Polis In Rita Azevedo Gomes’ cinematic universe, a characteristic blend of literary adaptation and cinematic innovation creates simultaneously concrete and oneiric landscapes—places where the wandering subject, camera, plot and spectator become absorbed by the unknown, yet strangely familiar, territory before them. With Fuck the Polis, her most bold and daring film to date, the Portuguese filmmaker continues her cinematographic explorations of word, image, time and human emotions. Making its world premiere at FIDMarseille 2025, Polis follows Irma, who around twenty years ago, believing herself condemned, traveled to Greece. She now retraces that journey, moving from island to island in what becomes […] The post Cinema without Adjectives: Rita Azevedo Gomes on _Fuck the Polis_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
07.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“I Had Never Filmed Near the Front Before”: Dmytro Hreshko on Karlovy Vary-Premiering Ukrainian War Documentary Divia At a time when observation remains the dominant approach among contemporary Ukrainian documentarians and it feels as though every subject suited to a distanced gaze has already been explored, in Divia Dmytro Hreshko approaches nature during wartime with radical, dialogue-free minimalism. Originally from Uzhhorod, a city on the Slovakian border, Hreshko has celebrated Ukraine’s landscape in previous documentaries such as Snow Leopards of the Carpathians (2019) or Mountains and Heaven in Between (2022). With his signature admiration for picturesque scenery—captured through drone and sustained by extra-long shots with deep focus—Divia is a harmonious continuation of his career as both director […] The post “I Had Never Filmed Near the Front Before”: Dmytro Hreshko on Karlovy Vary-Premiering Ukrainian War Documentary _Divia_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
07.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“A Lot of Movies Right Now are Just Shrugs”: Frederic Da on iPhone-Shot Found Footage film Isaiah’s Phone With Isaiah’s Phone, French-American filmmaker Frederic Da caps off an informal trilogy cataloging the contemporary teenage experience by corralling his film students at a private high school in Santa Monica as crew and on-camera as actors. Short “Ava Dates a Senior” was expanded into the ensemble feature Teenage Emotions—both of which are lensed on multiple iPhones and had their premieres at Slamdance. Da’s latest, Isaiah’s Phone, employs a diegetic, found footage framing device, following a young student Isaiah (Isaiah Brody) as he navigates the difficulties of high school. On-screen text up top teases “a horrific act of violence,” explaining that […] The post “A Lot of Movies Right Now are Just Shrugs”: Frederic Da on iPhone-Shot Found Footage film _Isaiah’s Phone_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
03.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“Everybody Involved in This Was a Total Loser”: Alex Ross Perry on His Exhaustive Essay Doc Videoheaven Part eulogy for a bygone commercial space, part rigorous investigation of its origins and subsequent representation in popular culture, Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven leaves virtually no stone unturned during its nearly three hour runtime. Composed entirely of clips that take place in or otherwise center video stores—from Body Double to Seinfeld to Stranger Things—the essayistic documentary features droll narration from Maya Hawke (who stars in the latter) waxing poetic about their rise and fall, both physically and on screen, in six chapters. The role of pornography, corporate chains and the front-facing employees within these spaces is exhaustively charted; notably, Perry […] The post “Everybody Involved in This Was a Total Loser”: Alex Ross Perry on His Exhaustive Essay Doc _Videoheaven_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
02.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Chheangkea This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Today we’re sharing the diary of Chheangkea, who traveled to the Lab with Little Phnom Penh. Here’s the description: “Spanning two ever-changing decades, from post–Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh to early 2000s California, a Cambodian woman grapples with her deep personal desires, untimely love, and shifting family roles amid profound cultural and historical upheavals.” A complete list of Sundance Labs participants can be found here. — Editor All I wanted when I arrived at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park for the Directors Lab was […] The post Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Chheangkea first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
02.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“Right-Size Yourself”: Bonnie Rose, Back To One, Episode 348 Bonnie Rose started her professional career as a stand-in for Bette Midler on First Wives Club. Next up, the iconic and legendary film director Sidney Lumet hand picked her for the feature film Night Falls On Manhattan, playing a New York City cop opposite Andy Garcia, which led to many other Lumet projects over the next decade including a recurring role as a legal aid attorney on the TV legal drama 100 Centre St. Bonnie’s massive credits in television and film include Inside Llewyn Davis, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, Blue Bloods, Broad City, The Sopranos, and the trifecta of all Law & Orders. She recently won Best Actress at three different […] The post “Right-Size Yourself”: Bonnie Rose, Back To One, Episode 348 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
01.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Diffan Sina Norman This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Today we’re sharing the diary of Diffan Sina Norman, who traveled to the Lab with Sitora. Here’s the description: “A young doctor arrives in a Malay village to establish its first health clinic, jeopardizing the community’s allegiance to a racketeering shaman and his unlikely accomplice: an elusive half-man, half-tiger.” A complete list of Sundance Labs participants can be found here. — Editor It’s two days after my return from the lab. My memory of the last two weeks are a little hazy and scrunched […] The post Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Diffan Sina Norman first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
01.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Alexandra Qin This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Today we’re sharing the diary of Alexandra Qin, who traveled to the Lab with Thirstygirl. Here’s the description: “When Charlie is forced to drive her estranged younger sister cross-country to rehab, her own secret addiction comes to the surface in the most devastating and hilarious ways.” A complete list of Sundance Labs participants can be found here. — Editor What they don’t tell you about the Sundance Directors Lab. You’ll feel like a big shot when you land at the Denver airport. You’ll float […] The post Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Alexandra Qin first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
30.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“It’s Really Sharp on the Neurotic Relationships that Americans Have with Money”: Robin Schavoir and Paul Felten Discuss The Jag The titular sports car of Robin Schavoir’s The Jag is parked in an imaginary space off-stage at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, where the play is currently running in a production directed by Paul Felten. The existence of this symbolic object structures the matrix of resentment, envy and desire searchingly embodied by The Jag‘s on-stage trio: struggling screenwriter Tyler (Gilles Geary), rich guy art collector Brian (Mickey Solis), and nursing student Cori (Giovanna Drummond). (A fourth character, the renter of the Catskills home the three converge at, and voiced by a “downtown icon,” is only heard via recited emails […] The post “It’s Really Sharp on the Neurotic Relationships that Americans Have with Money”: Robin Schavoir and Paul Felten Discuss _The Jag_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
27.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
2025 Oxbelly Retreat Screenwriters Fellows & Advisors Announced Greek nonprofit Oxbelly has announced in a press release the participants of the 2025 Oxbelly Retreat, taking place June 28–July 6 at Costa Navarino in Messinia, Greece. The Oxbelly Retreat is an annual gathering of international storytellers, dedicated to the exchange of ideas, deepening of craft and broadening of artistic horizons through intercultural dialogue. Now in its tenth year, the 2025 Oxbelly Retreat includes programs for writers working in film and literary fiction. The Retreat is founded on the principles of embracing independence and risk-taking, as fellows move from early to mid-career and develop work they seek to bring to […] The post 2025 Oxbelly Retreat Screenwriters Fellows & Advisors Announced first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
27.06.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
“I Wanted to Write a Trans Woman Who Had Really Bad Politics”: Filmmaker Louise Weard on the Abject Tragicomedy of Her DIY Epic Castration Movie Louise Weard is obsessed with castration. The idea for her five-part DIY epic Castration Movie came when she was reviewing footage for a supercut of onscreen “dick destruction” subtitled Texas Birth Control—and, she notes with amusement, eating little phallic pickles. Weard has an infectious laugh, and the things she finds funny tend to reflect her unique form of good-natured miserablism. Her characters are marginalized people who get the shit beaten out of them, physically and emotionally. Some are marginalized in ways that attract sympathy from her audience. Others, like the incel who’s the protagonist of the film’s first chapter, are […] The post “I Wanted to Write a Trans Woman Who Had Really Bad Politics”: Filmmaker Louise Weard on the Abject Tragicomedy of Her DIY Epic _Castration Movie_ first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
27.06.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0