Filmmaker Magazine

10/28/2025

Here are the 2025 Gotham Award nominees. https://filmmakermagazine.com/132293-the-gotham-announces-the-2025-gotham-award-nominees-one-battle-after-another-tops-with-six-noms/

10/24/2025

Evan Louison interviews Abel Ferrara about the director's fantastic page-turned of a cinema memoir, SCENE, our now from Simon and Schuster.

Back to selection “Redemption is a Journey, Not a Destination”: Abel Ferrara on His New Filmmaking Memoir, SCENE Abel Ferrara (Photo: Mauro Maglione) by Evan Louison in Filmmaking on Oct 24, 2025 Abel Ferrara, Scene When it comes to filmmaker biographies, the “print the legend” maxim so freq...

10/08/2025

Vadim Rizov remembers the great experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, who passed away this week.

Back to selection Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs and Ken Jacobs in Momma's Man (courtesy of Kino Lorber) by Vadim Rizov in Filmmaking on Oct 8, 2025 Ken Jacobs, obituary Ken Jacobs wasn’t just a single (albeit huge) formative force in experimental film, but a river through which an ...

09/23/2025

Hal Hartley on thinking like a rock band and his new feature, his first in 11 years, "Where to Land."

Back to selection “I Kind of Think Like a Rock Band”: Hal Hartley on Self-Distribution, Personal Filmmaking and His New Feature, “Where to Land” Where to Land by Vikram Murthi in Directors, Interviews on Sep 23, 2025 Hal Hartley, Where to Land Hal Hartley’s Where to Land, his first feature...

09/02/2025

Charli xcx and Pete Ohs talk Warsaw, table of bubbles filmmaking, and their Toronto-bound "Erupcja."

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09/01/2025

Charlie Kaufman and Eva HD on their haunted ode to history, memory and Athens, "How to Shoot a Ghost," which premiered today in Venice.

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08/26/2025

Abby Harri, a Filmmaker 25 New Face whose short "Side Hustle," about a sugar baby and her sugar daddy, is a recent

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08/15/2025

In a guest essay, journalist and filmmaker Gaia Caramazza reflects on what she's learned from filming the protests at Columbia University.

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07/31/2025

"Eddington" is the first Ari Aster film shot entirely on location. Aster gets into the complexities of the shoot, and working with Joaquin Phoenix and Darius Khondji, in this interview with Vikram Murthri.

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07/29/2025

Spoke to Kelsey Taylor about her terrific debut feature, "To Kill a Wolf," opening Friday in NYC. It's a contemporary reworking of "Little Red Riding Hood" that speaks, movinglyhttps://filmmakermagazine.com/131411-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/

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07/25/2025

With the oddly beguiling tale of adolescent drift, "Diciannove," now out in theaters via Oscilloscope Laboratories, a repost of our interview with director Giovanni Tortorici.

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07/22/2025

"Duster" DP and Corman alum Paul Elliott walks through his career.

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