Filmmaking Movies

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

Two filmmakers who always fail to market their films, try to find a way to success by doing black magic in their film production.

ADM:DOP (Anthony Dod Mantle - Director of Photography) is an impressionistic look into the creative life and vision of cinematographer Anthony Dod...

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

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his...

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186)....

Behind-the-scenes tidbits of "The Legend of the Stardust Brothers".

Film students are pushed to their limits by the chaotic nature of a film set. As their film goes from pitch to production, they find out what it...

This jazzy short was one of two efforts in the very brief "Binko the Bear Cub" series. Completed in 1930 yet never exhibited in theaters. Created by...

From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors....

At 6:00 in the morning on the 1st day of January in 2013 80-year-old film-maker IM Kwon-taek started shooting his 102nd film, after his unintentional...

Host Marie-Claude Julien meets director Bernard Émond on the day of the launch of his latest film Une femme respectable. He chose...

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.

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

In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a...

As a film director works on his submission for a film festival, the mounting issues during production reveal what truly unfolds behind (the scenes)...

A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans,...