Meet the dude behind one of the most celebrated on-screen heroines of all time. When he walks into a room, Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman gives off good vibes. When I met him at the... Read more >>

Click here to learn more about Keep the Dance Alive and to view clips of the movie. JB: How difficult was it to gain the trust of Ovahimba people to begin this project? RS: The social obligation of... Read more >>

We all love movies, but what is it that do you love most about those films? What about them draws you to the movie theater time after time? The actors? The filmmakers? The stories? The... Read more >>

If the wall-to-wall political coverage isn’t prompting you to pour cayenne pepper in your eyes while chewing on a ball of tinfoil and you’re up for a topical “escape,” here are... Read more >>

Jessia Epstein’s filmmaking budget back in 2007 was as slim as the models being airbrushed in the first documentary in her series about body image. Now she plans to expand the eleven-minute... Read more >>

As part of an ethnographic study, filmmaker Rina Sherman, a protégé of Jean Rouch, lived with the Ovahimba people of northwest Namibia for seven years, documenting the flow of ordinary life. Watch this video >>

While working on my master’s degree in film and television at Southern Illinois University, I read a newspaper article about a bombing in Jerusalem. Read more >>

Click here to learn more about Election Day and view clips of the movie. Q:  The film was shot in one day. How did you make this happen? A: Shooting a film in fourteen different far-flung... Read more >>

Talk about a changeup from your average dry advertisement for a conference—Ben West succeeds at creating a “mockumentary” to promote the 2008 Australian Directors Guild Conference.... Read more >>

When was the last time you left a theater wishing you could sit up all night with the filmmaker and discuss the movie you had just seen? It happened to me recently after a matinee of Into the Wild,... Read more >>