Blurring the Lines
Ohio-based filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s 3-hour and 45-minute documentary A Lion in the House follows five families with…
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American History X
With more than 25 museums and research centers and a collection of more than 142 million objects, the Smithsonian Institution…
Show Us Your Shorts
“I don’t know how big of a historian you are,” begins David Dundas, one of the founders of YouAreTV, a…
On the Margins of the Multiplex
In 1973, a young, cinema-loving bohemian couple fled the high rents of Manhattan for the more affordable suburbs of Huntington,…
Q&A – Larry Clark
Larry Clark’s films are shocking. There’s Kids, about drug-using, AIDS-carrying, sexually active Manhattan teenagers; Bully, the true story of a…
Q&A – James Schamus
Writer, producer, and film executive James Schamus has had about as brilliant a career in independent film as they come,…
One-Two Punch
I thought that making Monster’s Ball was rough. I vowed upon wrapping that film that I would never make another….
Hell or High Water
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…
Q&A: Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan
For most people in America, “Sesame Street” warrants no introduction. The long-running PBS program and landmark, nonprofit children’s educational organization,…