The Short Story at Sundance
Watching 2,000 short films in four months isn’t something you take on in your free time. It requires a finely…
Film Festivals
I’m short of footage. Way short.
Dear Doc Doctor: I’m in my first week of editing, and I have this horrible feeling that my 100 hours…
Docurama on the Rise
At the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Steve Savage and Susan Margolin, the two minds behind New Video, a New York-based…
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
As I start writing this, I’ve just ejected from my VCR the 349th entry for this year’s Revelation Perth International…
Q/A: Terrence Howard
There was one good thing about Malcolm Lee’s 1999 studio film The Best Man: Terrence Howard. I wrote a review…
Good Lord, Not Another Artsy Film
I am Marc Vogl, a 30-something East Coast kid who came out to San Francisco in the 90s following a…
Behind the Spin
There is a mystique to filmmaking—the silvery light that reflects off the screen, the way the story shapes a character’s…
LA Film with a View
In New York, a rooftop is not merely a rooftop. Part refuge, part observation deck, the roof is where New…
The Women of Sundance
Flipping through the catalog of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the faces of American narrative filmmakers are unsurprisingly still predominantly…