Finding Your Community: A Conversation with Joe Simon

At first, Joe Simon learned things the hard way—on his own. After getting his start shooting extreme sports with a…

How to Fail: 6 Perspectives

Failure is always fine in retrospect. It’s when you’re in the middle of it that things can get dark. You…

On Managing Priorities in Your Film Career

Our recent conversation with Philip Bloom got us thinking: How do other artists find balance in their lives? We scoured…

Best Investments: 5 Filmmakers on the Choices That Paid Off

You realize pretty quickly in life that you are working with limited resources. Limited time. Limited money. Limited talent. One…

‘Amateur’: A Conversation with Ryan Koo

It shouldn’t surprise you that Ryan Koo didn’t go to film school. He is, after all, the founder of the…

How to Find Your Artistic Voice

We were talking to an artist friend of ours a while ago, a guy known for a very specific style…

Making a Film Without Knowing How to Make a Film

It may have started as a film school assignment, but the short film AWAY quickly became a film school in…

Quit Your Day Job: A Conversation with Thomas Simon

There comes a point when any serious creative has to make a choice: continue pursuing art on the side, or…

The Art of Character with David Corbett

“Every story worth telling in some way mirrors our lives…” That’s how David Corbett opens his now canonical book The…

Behind the Project: ‘My Mom’s Motorcycle’

Something weird can happen when you start making a film (or start making anything, really). You can get too close…