Coming Clean
David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi’s debut documentary film Dirty Work premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2004 and is currently…
Making Films
Networking 101
Everyone knows the value of networking, right? It can get you a job, it can get you a great DP,…
Don’t Worry, Film Happy
After more than twenty years in the business, I decided to quit my career as a costume designer. I was…
Lost Angels
I could just be romanticizing it now that I’ve moved, but in New York all the filmmakers I knew seemed…
Don’t Shoot
Many might say the past few years have been good ones for independent filmmakers, largely because digital filmmaking has made…
Double Vision
The so-called “Film Brat” generation of the middle to late 1970s has been blamed for, or credited with, many things…
Orlando Bagwell
After twenty years behind the lens, Orlando Bagwell is putting down his camera. But his recently Sundance-screened Citizen King is…
The Girl Team
While there are alarmingly few women helming movies these days, there are more and more behind the scenes. The role…
The “F” Factor
This is the first and last “Women In Film” article filmmaker Julie Talen wants to be in. She’d rather talk…