Filmmaking Movies

A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the film, Three Little Words.

A portrait of a recently vacated home, the film evokes both memory and the lingering presence of past inhabitants. Through precise, enigmatic...

A feature-length documentary film adaptation of the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name, chronicling the history of Mondo cinema and the "death...

Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5...

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were...

Documentary about the making of Ordet, from the perspective of cinematographer Henning Bendtsen.

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film...

Jeppy Bass is the story of a college student's struggles to make his thesis short film, entitled 'Damn Fine Cup'. After getting a behind-the-scenes...

Documentary filmmaker Rupert Tothington chronicles the troubled production of famed director Maximillian Silverstein's latest feature film.

Dani and Michael, two down-on-their-luck filmmakers, decide to craft and film their own independent movie despite their tumultuous lives begging them...

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of Contour, an independent martial arts comedy made for only $6,000.

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

Walter Hill sits down for a rare retrospective interview for his 1981 film "Southern Comfort".

A failed filmmaker returns to Memphis with the hope of jump starting his career but is thwarted by the insanity of the film crew, the selfish...

A diverse group of actresses becomes frustrated by not getting a break, then decide to make their own film. Low on funds they find the most unlikely...