What The Webinar Will Cover How each company approaches curation, audience building, and community engagement What makes these new distribution models unique—and replicable How filmmakers can find the ...

8 Above’s June webinar, co-sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine, profiles four new adventurous and innovative distributors that have emerged on the US independent film scene.

Friedland and cinematographer Gabe Elder kept the lens at Ruth’s eye level, echoing the posture of a care worker kneeling to ...

Murthy and I spoke via Zoom the week before her film’s world premiere at Sheffield DocFest on June 19. Below, the filmmaker ...

EZTV, started talking to her. They kept up over the phone and made plans to work together. Based in Phoenix, Kamandalu flew in […] ...

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Well, we really needed that,” the woman in front of me said to her companion as we all left the opening night screening, Steal This Story, Please! at DC/DOX Film Festival. Co-founders Sky Sitney and ...

Here, writer, director and projectionist Joe Stankus shares with Filmmaker a short film he made, shot by Ashley Connor, about the work that goes into the theater’s essential old-school touch: its ...

In 1986, ia Kamandalu showed up at the EZTV space in West Hollywood for a screening of video art by Doris Chase. People ...

Hopefully, I’ll be in a love story sooner or later,” he jokes, “because, boy, am I tired of running for my life.” Henry drops that line near the end of our conversation. It’s funny, yes—but also ...

Writer-director Eva Victor remembers this being a genuine issue in the edit of her first feature. “It ended up feeling like the beginning of a horror movie. I was like, ‘I don’t really care that it ...

A Report From the 2025 Play-Doc International Film Festival. Each year, the Play-Doc International Film Festival brings a modest but well-curated selec ...