Filmmaking Movies

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability.

A life long dream of making a feature film turns into a comedic disaster for a New Jersey filmmaker.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921).

Three film students attempt to make a horror movie 'blockbuster', but their Hollywood plans get derailed when their very own horror movie slasher...

A director (P. Chann) tries to make a movie following the guise of Joseph Campbell's framework.

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising...

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets...

Dwij and his friends are tasked to make a short film under 40 hours.

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget...

College film major JP Dalton goes back home to talk with his friends about the past, present, and future.

In this documentary about low-budget filmmaking in upstate New York, you'll learn how affordable digital-video technology has changed the lives of...

Documentary on Christian Schocher, director of the legendary «Reisender Krieger» (1980).

Largely due to censorship, many films, especially documentaries and independent films, can't be released in China. But underground cinema clubs are...

A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 'The Birth of a Nation'.

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

We’ve all dreamed about making it big. About doing something that sets us apart and makes an indelible claim about who we are. Gunnar Ryan Wiik...

A short film about how filmmakers can extend the life of their motion pictures, made and distributed by the Society of Amateur Cinematographers (SAC).

When up and coming actor Allen Stevens lands a role in an over-the-top, pretentious art film directed by the self-obsessed auteur Arthur Reginald...