7 Tips for Directors from an NYU Directing Coach

There’s no easy way to make a film. The process is incredibly long and complex with a thousand unmarked pitfalls…

Eliot Rausch: “Quick and Easy Answers Bother Me Now.”

Eliot Rausch likes parables and has a habit of turning them into beautiful and thought-provoking, albeit highly ambiguous, short films.…

How to Make a Scene: David Mamet’s Advice to Directors

On Directing Film by David Mamet is a short book, just over 100 pages; but it contains everything Mamet knows…

4 Writing Tips from Director Lloyd Lee Choi

Why wait around for the perfect script to come your way, when you could spend time writing a script of…

How to Break Into the New Commercial Landscape

Commercial filmmaking is experiencing a tectonic shift. Clients are expecting better projects for smaller budgets, and if you’re part of…

Why the “Hard Road” is a Path to Better Films

If our conversation with Dan Sadgrove seems to rove a bit, bear with us. It’s what he does. “I don’t…

Stick to What You Know: A Director’s Perspective

If you gave five different filmmakers the same prompt, you’d get five different films. That’s because every objective element of…

A Director’s Argument for Doing Absolutely Nothing

Humans are productive beings; it’s in our nature. We excel in building, creating, and existing in a constant state of…

Director Brent Foster on How to Get Your Films Done

Procrastination is often an act of self-preservation. When we know something will be difficult, we naturally tend to avoid it.…

A Filmmaker’s Guide to Solving Problems

Problems, if anything, are a lesson. Whether we’re defeated by them or come up with a genius solution, afterward they…