There’s no secret formula for getting great performances from your actors. Just kidding — yes there is! And Adrienne Weiss…
8 mins read
What’s a more accurate term: passion project or obsession project? If you’re talking about Variable’s latest film, Rocket Wars, then…
10 mins read
Movie magic happens in an instant. It’s an alchemy of elements that, for whatever reason, creates something much more valuable…
3 mins read
From the outside, it’s not always clear what a producer does. Turns out it’s the same on the inside. “There’s…
Matthew Porterfield, a 39-year-old filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, has written and directed four feature films, including Hamilton, Putty Hill, I…
5 mins read
When Planet Earth first aired in 2006, it showed us our world in a way we’d never seen it before.…
7 mins read
When Ricky Staub, founder and director of Neighborhood Film Company, decided to make his first narrative short film, he went…
9 mins read
There are few people more experienced in cause-based storytelling than Ashley Gutierrez, creative director and founder of Cliff Co., an…
4 mins read
It was tempting to open this interview with some sort of dog cliché about learning new tricks or letting them…
7 mins read
A sculptor doesn’t see the rock. A sculptor sees what’s inside the rock (i.e. The Sculpture). It takes a different…
7 mins read