Filmmaking Movies

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising...

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

A film crew is shooting a scene. Their gestures gradually slip into dancing, revealing the beauty lying in the choreography of film sets.

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated...

For decades Italian genre cinema dominated the world and before changing beyond recognition it went to unthinkable places. Giants don't die quietly...

Sawada is an unpopular move director but he manages to win the grand prize at an indie film festival With the reward he decides to go big for his...

See how the VeggieTales episodes are made! Plus, hear the heart and purpose of VeggieTales from the creators, Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, as they...

The story of the shooting of Satan's Blood (Escalofrío), a film directed by Carlos Puerto in 1978.

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...

An essay film by filmmaker and archivist Sari Braithwaite, [Censored] offers an overview of film censorship in Australia, told through an...

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186)....

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

In this documentary about low-budget filmmaking in upstate New York, you'll learn how affordable digital-video technology has changed the lives of...

Not liking the vast amount of negativity in recent movies James tries to make his own film.

Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill...

A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length,...

A short documentary on Jerome Kern and the making of Till the Clouds Roll By.

Two great filmmakers discuss the evolution of film, 70mm and Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight".

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget...