Filmmaker Magazine
- Greenlight Coverage Celebrates Gotham Week Partnership and Recognizes Top Three Projects (Sponsored Post) October 22, 2025Greenlight Coverage was proud to partner with Gotham Week this year, offering script analysis and story development support to a remarkable range of submissions. Out of the many compelling entries, three projects stood out for their creativity, emotional resonance, and cinematic potential: The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, The Poem, and The Camford Experiment. […]Filmmaker Staff
- Shooting from the Heart: Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo on Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud October 21, 2025As I wrote in my capsule review for this year’s SXSW curtain raiser, Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is a film that Craig Renaud, Brent’s brother (and my friend for the past dozen years, ever since I met the tight-knit siblings covering their now defunct Little Rock Film […]Lauren Wissot
- “I Almost Died and I Promised My Loved Ones that I Will Never Act and Direct Again” Cooper Raiff Returns to Discuss Hal and Harper, Back To One, Episode 363 October 21, 2025Cooper Raiff returns to the podcast (first time was Ep. 128) to discuss his latest project, the eight-episode, independently-made, decades-spanning series Hal & Harper. He picks up right where we left off in the first interview, five years ago, taking us through the process of getting Cha Cha Real Smooth made, and how that green […]Peter Rinaldi
- The Lights Blinked Through The Smoke: A Filmmaker’s Hazy Memories of the IFC Center, New York City, and a Dirty Bit of Concrete. October 20, 2025My relationship with the stretch of Sixth Avenue running between West 3rd and West 4th Streets, on one corner of which stands New York City’s legendary IFC Center, mirrors my relationship with cinema, bad tattoos, crushing hangovers, and a whole mess of memories that sit in the back of my brain like luggage stuffed in […]Nathaniel Lezra
- “Deception Was Inherent to Teacher Wang’s work, and We Had to Figure Out How to Handle This from an Ethical Perspective”: Elizabeth Lo on Mistress Dispeller October 20, 2025Perhaps one of the strangest and most captivating docs of the year, Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller centers on a middle-aged wife and husband, the latter of whom is having an affair that the former is desperate to end. Enter Wang Zhenxi, one of a growing number of China’s professional “mistress dispellers.” For a fee, Teacher […]Lauren Wissot
- “Collapsing the Past Into the Present”: Connor Sen Warnick on “Characters Disappearing” October 17, 2025A half-hour into Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing, left-wing revolutionary Mei (Yuka Murakami) hangs up a poster declaring “The East is Red.” Until that point, the film seems to take place in the strict past-tense, moving through the domestic spaces of Asian Americans in New York’s Chinatown in the early 1970s. But when Mei crosses […]Alex Lei
- “We Have to Think Deeply about Community Policing”: Geeta Gandbhir on The Perfect Neighbor October 17, 2025With Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor premiering on Netflix today, we’re reposting our interview with Gandbhir out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. — Editor Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered in the US Documentary section of this year’s Sundance, is likely one of the first feature docs primarily composed of police body camera footage. […]Ritesh Mehta
- Crispin Glover Returns To Do a Deep Dive Into “No! You’re Wrong or Spooky Action at a Distance,” Back To One, Episode 362 October 17, 2025This is the second part of my interview with Crispin Glover where we dive deep into his latest film No! You’re Wrong or Spooky Action At A Distance, which he spent the better part of the last 18 years making, completely independently. He touches on many of the technical aspects of the film, such as […]Peter Rinaldi
- Existential Rave: Kangding Ray on Scoring “Sirāt” October 16, 2025Few recent films have offered such an overwhelmingly immersive audiovisual experience as Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt. It’s no coincidence that the first shots of the film show tough-looking tech guys assembling an intimidatingly huge sound system on a remote and desolate location, as music is a major driving force behind this cinematic trip. The fourth film […]Hugo Emmerzael
- “The Algorithm of It All”: Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente on “In the Glow of Darkness” October 16, 2025Drawing heavily from internet aesthetics that feel at once contemporary and dated, In the Glow of Darkness is a sprawling, hand-made cyberpunk ensemble film following detectives, streamers, pop stars, struggling families, corporate conspiracies and a rave-dancing hitman. Eschewing direct references to our world’s online space, In the Glow of Darkness constructs a parallel reality of […]Alex Lei
